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So, it seems there are plans for a right-wing Canadian news channel explicitly modelled after Fox news. Pierre Karl Peladeau, that useless waste of skin, is even calling his intended channel "Fox News of the North."

It's a pretty stupid idea for a number of reasons.

-Explicitly right-wing news sources tend to have trouble in Canada, due to so few potential readers/viewers. I mean, you've got the prairies, and... er... well. Yeah. Witness the financial troubles of the National Post.
-CBC News has already been plenty FOXified. For a while just recently, it was pretty much "Tiger Woods News Central."
-The channel this is being modelled after is not exactly raking in the dough. It makes little to no money, its stocks are nearly worthless, and its viewership lags behind all its major competitors.

We're not looking at much potential success, even if you factor in conservatives' tendencies to watch more television than they read. So... Why?

Well, I already covered that question: Pierre Peladeau is a waste of skin. I expect he views this project much like Izzy Asper long viewed the National Post - basically a place to have his disgusting political positions gain a modicum of legitimacy and voter-consciousness-penetration. On that level, even as it fails it may well succeed.

And Harper? Harper will love it for however long it lasts.

Sigh.