A Good Day For Canada

The schoolyard isn't a news site. It's a blog. So, I'm not always fast to get on top of the latest. The execrable "SUN News" has gone off the air and the day it happened was a good day for Canada. Some people from the journalism profession are mourning the loss of employment of their colleagues, but I can't bring myself to feel bad. If the company formerly known as "Blackwater" shut down, people would be out of work, but it would be a good thing for the world. Any hateful business or industry being shut down would be a good thing, even though it meant some people were unemployed. The answer to the crisis in journalism isn't fucking goddamned "SUN News."

It was a good day for Canada. Canada hasn't been looking too good lately. We've shown ourselves to be an apathetic, deluded people with no clue about our democratic heritage or the importance of our values. (Laughably though, that doesn't prevent us from complimenting ourselves on being a democratic, tolerant, compassionate society.) So, when a hateful, stupid, insulting travesty like "SUN News" failed, it at least showed the world that we're not that debased. There weren't enough angry, racist, stupid, boorish assholes to subsidize the angry, racist, stupid, boorish assholes of "SUN News." Furthermore, despite their corporate and political connections, those scumbags weren't able to manipulate the CRTC into forcing cable providers to carry them, which would have prolonged their existence. In this case, the system worked. It prevented this house of shit from poisoning our culture any more than the market would bear.

"SUN News" stole from us. They would have died sooner, but the anti-democratic criminal cabal of the harpercons lavished them with revenues to carry their bullshit, illegal propaganda "Action Plan" ads over and fucking over again. It's nauseating when you think of it. The network of the racist troll Ezra Levant is propped-up by the illegal propaganda spending of the anti-democratic, election-stealing harpercon regime. And we just sat there and took it.

Certainly one of the reasons that nobody watched "SUN News" was because it was difficult to find and many Canadians are too apathetic about their democracy to even care about a particular point of view. I suppose though, that I prefer the nothingness of an apathetic Canadian to the misshapen, ignorant nonsense that your typical "Blogging Tory" vomits onto the internet.

You know, when you think of the deletrious impact that "FOX News" has had on the US-American political culture, it becomes difficult to even grasp why some journalists feel so bad about the death of "SUN News" that they claim our "marketplace of ideas" is the poorer for its passing. It is not. It has been improved. Canada is a slightly better place now that it is gone.