So imagine how surprised I was to see that the Huffington Post has a new Canadian version. The oddly popular apparent love child of the National Enquirer and Earl Browder, contributing relatively little to intelligent discourse south of the border, has spawned a clone now in the Great White North. In taking a look at it, I found the original HuffPo with a smattering of unsurprisingly left-wing Canadian commentary. Oh – and they stuck a Maple Leaf on the title. I'm shivering.
But where then is the outcry over the American intrusion into the Canadian media sphere that there was with the idea of an actual Canadian version of Fox News, let alone the outrage cultivated by American Avaaz.org over the creation of Sun News Network?
I mean, surely those voices decrying the idea of the Americanization of Canadian media coverage when they jumped on Sun would just as vigorously denounce this intrusion from the opposite end of the political spectrum? They wouldn't have been opposing only because they wanted to restrict the ability of those who hold to a different political ideology to have the same media access as the left currently has through the CBC?
I should say I have absolutely no problem with the Huff n' Blow coming to Canada. I am a firm believer in freedom of expression, and a free marketplace of ideas. If they can jump over the border and find a solid readership amongst the soft of logic amongst us, then more power to them.
I just still hold to the absurd hope that the left might own up to their own hypocrisy.
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