Fox News of Canada Run by Ex-Harper Spokesman?!

On March 30, 2009, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and then communications director Kory Teneycke sat down for a secretive New York meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, the presidents of Fox News Channel.

Now, it appears Quebecor Media Inc. is set to launch a right wing TV News station modeled after Fox News. The station will be lead by Teneycke.

As the CBC notes, “By hiring Teneycke, Quebecor is following the path of Fox News Channel, whose founding president Roger Ailes was a former communications adviser for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. “

Having a news network driven by ideology is not a good sign for those of us in favour of reasonable public discourse, informative news, or quality journalism.

Securing fair access to the high quality, independent journalism provided by Al Jazeera English takes on a new sense of urgency now.

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