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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I guess boring is in the eye of the beholder, we arent a power in world politics so there goes half the news stories the US covers, conservative ideals differ greatly depending on what part of the country you are from. A Liberal in Alberta is a conservative in Ontario, an NDP from Victoria is communist party material in Alberta.
I just dont see a national conservative leaning channel to very interesting. I guess we will see, unless they start commenting on US stories with a Canadian angle - wouldnt that be exciting 
The difference with Don Cherry is he is actually insightful unlike the rest of the crap that covers hockey. He says things we are all thinking but that none of the other talking heads will ever touch. His "windbag" nature is an add on to his hockey commentary, not the other way around.
Unless some people are a fan of Glen Healy saying "Philly better watch out on those line changes, there have been 17 too many men on the ice penalties called in these playoffs and 3 have resulted in game winners". That is useless information to anyone who knows the game of hockey and that is the classic John Madden type stuff that exists on both network sans Cherry IMO. |
Well, the good news is if Quebecor follows the FOX model then all the hottest women anchors in the land will be concentrated in one spot with unprecedented shots of their short skirts with legs that go on forever.
That too is a FOX trademark, moreso than any other network.
Don Cherry has rarely said anything insightful for the last 15 years of his 30 year reign of terror. He's cornered the "quaint crazy uncle" trademark.
we arent a power in world politics so there goes half the news stories the US covers, conservative ideals differ greatly depending on what part of the country you are from. A Liberal in Alberta is a conservative in Ontario, an NDP from Victoria is communist party material in Alberta.
This isn't necessarily all about politics you know. There's that nasty thing called "The Culture War" apparently going on. I think you'll get the news pretty well straight-up. It's the "columnists" or opinion meisters that provide the entertainment. And the long legs.
I just dont see a national conservative leaning channel to very interesting.
It is if you feel that message isn't out there right now.
As I said in my first post in this thread, this is really about a business identifying and exploiting what it feels is an under-developed market. It has a lot less to do about politics. FOX has been extremely successful in finding and exploiting the niche and, as some observors have noted, FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch seems more interested in the money than the politics of it since he does seem to own some left-leaning publications in various corners of the world as well.
The business model relies on human nature seeking out sources of information to which we are already pre-disposed to agree with, thus making ourselves feel smarter. It's a warm blanket in a cold landscape.
And MSNBC, on the verge of death a year ago, made a deliberate decision to lean left in a virtual copycat of FOX. And they're doing better because of it.
The shrillness cannot work, the business cannot work, unless the audience is there and already pre-disposed to accept it.
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