This self-proclaimed media watchdog tunes in to Sun News Network almost daily for a few minutes; I'm not so sure it is about monitoring a self-proclaimed news organization, but more a case of enjoying a train wreck.
Now I'm sure: Sun News is staffed by incompetent fools. Top. To. Bottom.
How the heck did over 4,000 people submit complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council regarding an interview that Grand Dame Creepy Clown Krista Erickson held with Canadian dancer Margie Gillis, when only about 5,000 people were even watching? (By the way, the Bonzo-Brainless Sun network is getting lousy numbers. More about that in a future posting.) I'm acting stupid -- a specialty of mine -- as no doubt word spread, people watched the segment, and acted.
Read this in the Toronto Star, and make sure to watch the video in question...
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1016306--sun-news-interview-elicited-record-complaints-says-watchdog?bn=1#article
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At least one spokescritter for the Sun has stated angrily that the large number of complaints was created by a Facebook "campaign", implying that this is dirty pool. Kind of funny for a network that styled itself as an alternative to "mainstream media" from the beginning.
Sun TV News is not an alternative... as it turns out. There is no evidence of that covering 'stories that no one else will touch'. The Agenda on TVOntario has gone over issues like arts funding a few times, and did so with tempered journalistic integrity.
Take that, you room-full of amateurs.
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