Journalism Blog

CBC's Fifth Estate vs. Fox New's B. O'Reilly

What happens when you take a Canadian media icon like the CBC and conservative news pundit Bill O'Reilly from USA's most watched news programme Fox News? A good ol' Liberal and Conservative Battle.

Read more on the CBC's website, watch the programme on the CBC's Fifth Estate or search Fox News for CBC.

Canada is traditionally more liberal in its politics and media while the USA is experiencing a growing and perhaps dominant conservative media. Watching this conflict will certainly not be boring.

Does O'Reilly have an anti-Canadian bias? Just look at a few of his comments he's made on his show. It seems that if anyone disagrees with him, that person is branded as a liberal or a terrorist sympathiser. If anyone disagrees with his view of American politics, that person is labled anti-American.

Ann Coulter displayed an unusual amount of ignorance in her comment that Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Canada never did. Neither did they send any to Iraq. Watch the movie here.

The Toronto Star, one of Canada's largest newspapers published this editorial criticising O'Reilly.

The war of words and politics is just warming up. This cross-border shoot out will raise important issues regarding terrorism, free speech, liberal and conservative ideals and will almost certainly ruffle more than a few American and Canadian feathers.

Evidence of Fox's bias? A report by FAIR or Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, and Media Matters for America both blast Fox News.

For more information, check out the following links:
http://www.public-i.org/default.aspx
http://www.fair.org/index.php
http://mediamatters.org/
http://www.aim.org/index

posted by Dave @ 8:34 AM