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I fully understand how things work both north and south of the border.

Then you would know I was talking about both markets , not just the Canadian one. I tried not to imply that you had used the word "banned". You didn't . My apologies . My remarks were directed at those posts that did .

And we both know a million here or there will get someone's attention . In either country.

As for O'Reilly . This is the same a-hole who said if the 2 US deserters where not returned there should be a boycott and close the Canadian border . Never mind the USA has never asked for their return .

The CBC at least had the courtesy to tell viewers where they could subscribe to receive FOX . Did O'Reilly offer the same for the CBC in the USA ? Of course not . Maybe they struck a nerve with him. Or he's more afraid of them than they are of he . Either way CBC isn't available in most American markets. Perhaps it's been banned.

Hat tip to Stephen Taylor who decided to do a little research on the subject...

As I prepared this post, a rerun of the CBC's fifth estate documentary was lamenting the arrival of that "loud", "raucous" cable news channel that has debuted on Canadian digital cable. I am, of course, talking about Fox News.

Bob McKeown has an obvious thesis. He claims, quite correctly, that Fox News has aided in the division of the United States into Red and Blue. He calls it "a very un-civil war". Ironically he uses Al Franken and his Air America to confirm his thesis that Fox News is conservative (and thus quite evil). Yet, he ignores that by appealing to Franken he becomes unfaithful to his original thesis of media division of opinion as unfavorable.

I'd venture to guess that Bob took a lot of notes when he saw the Democratic Party funded documentary on Fox News: Outfoxed. All of the points were there. If I produced Outfoxed, I'd look into suing the Fifth Estate for plagiarism.

There is something quite ironic about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identifying media bias when the American news channel itself will compete directly with CBC for viewers.

So, I decided to look into the political influence behind what may direct the decisions at the CBC, from the stories that they choose to cover to which rerun of the Antiques Roadshow they'll play on Newsworld whenever the Conservative Party gets together at a convention or leadership debate.

Thus, I present the political contributions by party made by the current CBC board of directors.

Consider that these powerful positions are appointed by the government and that state media should of course be unbiased. The CBC documentary on Fox News dreads a division of opinion in the news media concerning the stories that are reported, the facts which are selected, and the tone of the broadcast. I would much prefer a "divide" than such a disparity which is as evident as the chart above describes.