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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Canada has been dominated by a left leaning publicly funded news network for most of it's history. It's not by chance there is no popular and left leaning satirist to respond to what has been over history a dominating left wing viewpoint.
In fact, one could easily argue Sun News is the first 'counterwieght' to the majority editorial stance across most of Canadian news' past, although Canwest probably could be argued as well.
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As much as I think the Sun is a rag, I think there is some truth to this. A satirist is much less needed here.
I do get a little out of joint when people say Canada has been dominated by left leaning news though. I mean, I guess if your comparing it to the states, yes that is a fair statement. But I think it's unfair to compare to just the states. If you look at other most western nations (possible exceptions being Britain and Australia, to which I think we're pretty close to the same) Canada is to the right of them in policy and from what I know, or what I can assume, journalism as well.
Therefore, I would argue, that when taken in the context of our own left/right dicotomy, or a western world view, our media is not as left leaning as one would think, and has had it's periods leaning both ways.
I know people like to think in terms of idealogical absolutes, but those just don't exist. A better way to compare the overused and undescriptive left/right spectrum is to compare with actual countries or cases. At least in my thinking anyway.