Post by LucusHam on Apr 26, 2004 16:46:35 GMT -5
Has anyone been following the battle Canadians have been putting up to keep FNC off the air there? Its mainly members of the elite liberal media scared of losing viewers but now a writer from the Globe and Mail has dragged O'Reilly into it.
Thoughts?
Here is an article from the NY Times.
American-Canadian relations have seen better days. Canada opposed the war in Iraq, and got a stern public lecture from the United States ambassador, Paul Cellucci, in return. The Bush administration does not like Canada's liberal drug policies. Trade disputes involving beef and softwood lumber continue to fester. But such frictions rarely get much television coverage at a time when Washington has a barrage of international problems to worry about.
That may be changing. Two weeks ago, the Canadian cable industry filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission to begin including the Fox News Channel among its listings. That would bring the channel to a country with a very un-Foxian knack for legalizing same-sex marriage and teasing Yanks for burning down their own White House in the War of 1812. The cultural divide burst into raw insult when Fox News' Bill O'Reilly recently got into a public brouhaha with John Doyle, the television critic for The Globe and Mail, Canada's most influential newspaper.
American news junkies couldn't help but get into the cross-border food fight, with many Fox News fans seeing red and, in response, other Americans feeling the need to apologize for their less-than-polite countrymen. The mess, without some of the more colorful language, is on display below.
It all started with Mr. Doyle's column on Monday, which poked fun at both Fox News and Mr. O'Reilly.
The other day I read in this newspaper . . . that some honchos in the cable-TV racket are applying for permission to offer the Fox News Channel in Canada.
Beauty. Bring it on, I say. We're all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. It's time we saw it for ourselves, and made up our own minds about the phenomenon. We'll find out if this Bill O'Reilly fella is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of Fox News.
That prompted Mr. O'Reilly to respond in kind on his evening program, "The O'Reilly Factor." Noting that Canadians only occasionally get glimpses of Fox News, Mr. O'Reilly takes aim at the "far left" Globe and Mail.
So they see rare clips, but think we're laughable. The Globe and Mail sounds like a real responsible enterprise, doesn't it? Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I'm honest.
It was a mild response, all things considered, but some American fans of Fox News apparently thought a gauntlet had been thrown. According to Mr. Doyle, hundreds of e-mail messages from south of the border began pouring into his Globe and Mail account - and continued to do so through the end of the week.
Thoughts?
Here is an article from the NY Times.
American-Canadian relations have seen better days. Canada opposed the war in Iraq, and got a stern public lecture from the United States ambassador, Paul Cellucci, in return. The Bush administration does not like Canada's liberal drug policies. Trade disputes involving beef and softwood lumber continue to fester. But such frictions rarely get much television coverage at a time when Washington has a barrage of international problems to worry about.
That may be changing. Two weeks ago, the Canadian cable industry filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission to begin including the Fox News Channel among its listings. That would bring the channel to a country with a very un-Foxian knack for legalizing same-sex marriage and teasing Yanks for burning down their own White House in the War of 1812. The cultural divide burst into raw insult when Fox News' Bill O'Reilly recently got into a public brouhaha with John Doyle, the television critic for The Globe and Mail, Canada's most influential newspaper.
American news junkies couldn't help but get into the cross-border food fight, with many Fox News fans seeing red and, in response, other Americans feeling the need to apologize for their less-than-polite countrymen. The mess, without some of the more colorful language, is on display below.
It all started with Mr. Doyle's column on Monday, which poked fun at both Fox News and Mr. O'Reilly.
The other day I read in this newspaper . . . that some honchos in the cable-TV racket are applying for permission to offer the Fox News Channel in Canada.
Beauty. Bring it on, I say. We're all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. It's time we saw it for ourselves, and made up our own minds about the phenomenon. We'll find out if this Bill O'Reilly fella is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of Fox News.
That prompted Mr. O'Reilly to respond in kind on his evening program, "The O'Reilly Factor." Noting that Canadians only occasionally get glimpses of Fox News, Mr. O'Reilly takes aim at the "far left" Globe and Mail.
So they see rare clips, but think we're laughable. The Globe and Mail sounds like a real responsible enterprise, doesn't it? Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I'm honest.
It was a mild response, all things considered, but some American fans of Fox News apparently thought a gauntlet had been thrown. According to Mr. Doyle, hundreds of e-mail messages from south of the border began pouring into his Globe and Mail account - and continued to do so through the end of the week.
