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Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown behaviour to choose from

08/13/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can’t seem to decide who is this week’s winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State Representative from […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bad behaviour, Brian Lilley, conservatism, Giorgio Mammoliti, QMI, Quebecor, Rob Ford, sex, Sun News Network, U.S. politics

No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?

08/03/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside We’ve been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Harper, PMO staffer Kory Teneycke, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, CTV, Kory Teneycke, National Post, newspapers, Patrick Muttart, Postmedia, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Harper, Sun News Network, television, U.S.

Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem

06/12/2011 by backofthebook.ca

With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they’re supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra Levant, who, when he shut […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Canada, Ezra Levant, Kory Teneycke, Krista Erickson, Lee Richardson, Margie Gillis, Sun News Network, television, Western Standard

On Sun TV and Margie Gillis

06/09/2011 by backofthebook.ca

On June 1, 2011, the Sun News Network broadcast an interview with veteran Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis (see link below), which quickly turned abusive towards the guest. In a message on his facebook page, Canadian dancer Louis Laberge-Côté, currently a teacher at Nationaltheatre Manheim in Germany, offered this assessment.         […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: bad behaviour, Canada, dance, economics, Sun Media, Sun News Network

SUN TV Snooze Network

04/24/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn’t paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant’s show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who watches this low […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Ezra Levant, news, Sun News Network, television

Oil sands cheerleader Levant: Slurs ‘R’ Us

09/21/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside The three American senators who took a tour of the tar sands last week, along with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, are all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. So while they were looking at this: They were seeing this: That fuzzy bit in the red portion that takes up well over […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Ed Stelmach, Ezra Levant, Greenpeace, oil sands, Sun News Network, U.S., U.S. military

Really, Kory Teneycke, that’s all it took?

09/16/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Seriously, Kory Teneycke, that’s all you’ve got? Avaaz.org gets 80,000 of the left’s more suggestible adherents to sign its petition against SunTV, manages to rebrand your nascent operation “Fox News North,” and raises $110,000 in the process, and you step down? That’s all it took? Do you think your spiritual forefather, Roger […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Karl Rove, Kory Teneycke, Quebecor, Roger Ailes, Sun Media, Sun News Network, television

Sun TV: Teneycke’s cat and dog show

09/07/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Here’s Korncob Kory Teneycke on CBC’s Power and Politics on Friday, stating that his baby, Quebecor’s Fox News North, never asked the CRTC for a must-carry licence—the kind that would require cable and satellite providers to include the channel in their basic package: “We are not nor have we ever asked for mandatory […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: CRTC, Kory Teneycke, Quebecor, Sun Media, Sun News Network, television

Sun TV vs. Avaaz and Atwood: who’s the real hate-monger?

09/03/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Sure we should wonder what Stephen Harper was doing having lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York last year. And of course the CRTC was right to refuse Quebecor a Category 1 specialty TV licence for its proposed SUN TV News Channel, which would force cable and satellite companies […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: CRTC, Kory Teneycke, Quebecor, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Harper, Sun Media, Sun News Network, television, Toronto Sun

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