Paul Jackson's take on Faux News - not to be missed!

[ironflange]

This column appeared in the distinguished Calgary Sun last week. Mr Jackson has outdone himself this time.

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So now, I get to watch the likes of O'Reilly -- simply the best commentator on TV anywhere -- Sean Hannity, Rita Cosby, Geraldo Rivera, Greta Van Susteren and Col. Oliver North giving me the true goods.

Now, some 20 years ago, when North was being hounded over the arms-for-contras operation (That helped free Nicaragua from Communist rule) I sent $25 US to his defence fund, and have had a soft spot for him ever since. Stars such as Rivera and Van Susteren fled the other networks for Fox News

Fox News' slogan, echoed by all, but I like it especially when quoted by the gorgeous newscaster Page Hopkins, is: "Only one network has Real Journalism. Fair and Balanced. That's why we're Number One."

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Yecchhh. Read it yourself, but not soon after eating.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Paul_Jackson/2005/02/15/931121.html

[Cha]

1. Gross!

I couldn't read it all..just enough to let me know this guy is major fucktard.

[redirish28]

2. Ummm, the person is sad, dwelusional, deranged and brainwashed...

My recommendation is a healthy dose of outfoxxed, mike malloy, and kichael moore to open this person's eyes to the truth. There may yet be hope for the ignorant out there! LOL!

[Feathered Fish]

5. Ah, yes Paul Jackson

He's one of our great idiot canadians. Please excuse him, he is ignorant and will be for the rest of his life. Kind of like David Rutherford.

[Maple]

3. He really really wants a job

in the US...and he regularly kisses up in an effort to get one.

Nobody wants him though.

Can't say I blame anyone for not taking him, but he's someone I'd love to export.

[iverglas]

4. raise your hand if you're watching FoxNews in Canada

I've been getting it on free preview since sometime in late December. I didn't notice that I had it until Tsunami Day, when I was lolling on the couch sick and flicking channels. I have to say that Fox actually covered the first couple of days of the Tsunami infinitely better than CNN, which treated it as kind of a sideshow to whatever the real news was those days. Of course, nothing like CBC's all Tsunami all the time coverage ...

We have digital cable, so we got a free preview of most of the digital cable speciality channels during January (not the odd thing like PrideTV, but most). In late January, I decided to find out how long this free Fox thing would be going on, so I called the cable company. They told me it was definitely only a free preview, and after that it would be $2.49 a month on a stand-alone basis (not part of any "bundle", e.g. the one we buy that gives us MSNBC, BBCWorld and 4 or 5 others). While I was there, I enquired about MTV, which was still showing "not authorized" on my screen. They told me I should be getting it. What can I say? I'm not getting it. So they turned it on. And I said okay, now I want that for another month, because I didn't get my free preview. So ... what seems to have happened is that I'm getting a whole other month of all the free-preview stuff.

So my problem is that I can't tell whether the free Fox preview is over or not! If it's still on free preview, and if it's authorized for distribution on a stand-alone pay TV basis, I think it's about time the cable company started charging for it. I don't know whether I'll buy it or not. There's something to be said for knowing thine enemy. Except even now we have only bothered to watch O'Reilly about 5 times.

So anyhow, are many people here actually getting and watching it?

Oh, and, btw, has anyone here seen EWTN? It's an RC channel from the US. It is absolutely appalling. If you have access, tune in on ... I think it's Friday night, but it might be Thursday ... and watch Frank Pavone's show at 10 (or maybe 9). He's the operator of Priests for Life, and he's been holding discussions with some woman from the anti-choice brigade about how to control the political process. He's a piece of work and a piece of shit. And he's followed by some droning theology professor talking about RC views of healthcare ... which you might think would be about things like making sure that the poor and disadvantaged actually get some, but noooo.

[Spazito]

8. I get it, have not and will not watch it...

I prefer real news, not propaganda from the US. I have to say I no longer watch CNN either and I used to be an avid watcher before it decided to race Faux to the bottom.

I suspect Faux will breach CRTC rules at some point soon and be turfed.

[achtung_circus]

6. I wrote a letter to the editor

sometime in the 1980's in response to a Jackson column. He wrote a piece of Hemingway wannabe crap about the beauty of the bullfight a la Blood on The Sand. In his warped view it is a primeval battle between man and beast, a mortal combat stripped of all superfluity and thus somehow "cleaner" and "purer".

Puke.

[Canadian Socialist]

7. Paul Jackson is a fake

he's writing all his columns from Mexico with his latest "trophy" wife. He is, without a doubt, one of the slimiest people I have met. There still is not enough soap and water in the world to get his stink of off me.

[Swede]

9. He was a rightwing hack when he wrote for the local paper.

He still is from the looks of things.