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Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Blabbermouth » Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:40 am

I guess this shows the credibility of The Sun Network as a real news organization.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14 ... a+Business
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby tuned » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:36 am

Due process? What does that have to do with the buffoonery that's been going on in Toronto?. The Mayor confessed to breaking the law by smoking crack. No process required. He's guilty. I think voters get the politicians they deserve. Perhaps during the next election they will make a different choice. That's democracy. Same goes for the puppet clown that runs Vancouver. I personally hope him and his bike helmet get tossed out of office but the voters may have a different idea.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Blabbermouth » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:50 am

What does "due process" have anything to do with him getting a TV show on the Sun network?

Are you saying Rob Ford now needs to be proven guilty of a crime in order to lose credibility as the mayor of one of the largest cities in North America. He's already lost credibility. I think when you say in the same press conference that a) you still have zero tolerance for illegal drugs in your city, then b) you admit you have purchased crack cocaine in the past 6 months, you have a credibility problem.

But that's not my point. I"m saying that by giving him his own show, the Sun Network is clearly exploiting a situation to get some short term attention and ratings, while in the process enabling Rob Ford to continue his self destructive ways. When Ford's heart suddenly gives out, it won't be the media or his political opponents who are to blame. It will be those who looked the other way and encouraged him to continue just because he represents their political ideology.

The guy's got a big problem. Do we not all agree on that? Rob Ford needs rehab, not a TV show.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby tuned » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:36 am

I was referring to the guy the posted some link to a government web site that refers to the right of due process. What's the problem with Sun TV giving the Fords a TV show?
Don't you believe in free speech and democracy? Sun TV is a private business that can put whomever they want on their air. If you took everyone with an alcohol/drug problem off of TV there'd be nothing left to watch. I love all the arm chair pontificating about Rob Ford from Vancouverites. We should be more concerned about the idiot that is running or should I say ruining the City. Rob Ford is over twenty one and doesn't need you or anyone else telling him what to do. I've got two words for you, Chris Farley. Is it SNL's fault that he wound up dead?
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby isthisthingon » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:43 am

Blabbermouth wrote:The guy's got a big problem. Do we not all agree on that? Rob Ford needs rehab, not a TV show.


I completely agree that he has a huge problem, desperately needs rehab and should have taken a voluntary open-ended leave of absence months ago. I also agree that Sun Media has no shame and that the talk station should've dumped his show when the content changed from city issues to his unfolding personal disaster.

It seems to me that if Ford's body type, buffoonery, drug/alcohol problems, useless handlers and political philosophy were viewed and repaired where required, there wouldn't be a story. He has, by all accounts, done a commendable job of repairing Toronto's financial problems, which is a unique feat for any politician and what he was elected to do.

As to the admissions to charges made by reporters and city councillors, but not by the Crown: In Canada, we are each entitled to a fair hearing in a court of law.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby tuned » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:57 am

Politics runs on perception not reality. The liberal media in Toronto has had a field day piling on Ford. The smug elites who think they are smarter than everyone else don't like it when they aren't in charge. If it turned out Gregor Robertson had a crack problem the media would be falling all over themselves to make sure "he got the help he needed". Rob Ford is an uncouth, fat, white middle-aged man and therefore an easy target. Same thing has happened to Mike Duffy. You don't think that any Liberal senators over the years haven't fudged their expense accounts? If some vizmin got busted the media would play the story completely differently.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby hagopian » Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:04 pm

Sun has ZERO credibility and a minuscule audience.

Ford needs an Intervention and medical help - he is to be pitied - and his Wife must be beside herself.

It's all very sad.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Tape Splicer » Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:04 pm

I am not going to throw stones ... We all have stuff in the closed of our glass houses that we are not proud of.

There was a time in our parliamentary tradition (federal and Provincial), where a politician would either volunteer or be asked to step aside while the mater was investigated. As it was "the right thing to do"...And the person would step aside.

I don't know if that tradition is part of the civic political system in this country or not.

Mr. Ford may have the political strength, by virtue of the number of votes he received, but he has lost the moral authority to govern, Until he is cleared of suspicion.

As yet there only allegations and no charges Mr. Ford stepping aside is NOT an admission of guilt. By stepping aside, he allows the city to get on with business with out the constant distraction of this slow train wreck that is his life at present.

We can only hope that Mr. Ford does "the right thing" to help himself, his family and the city of Toronto heal from his self imposed mess.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Blabbermouth » Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:40 pm

tuned wrote:I was referring to the guy the posted some link to a government web site that refers to the right of due process. What's the problem with Sun TV giving the Fords a TV show?
Don't you believe in free speech and democracy? Sun TV is a private business that can put whomever they want on their air. If you took everyone with an alcohol/drug problem off of TV there'd be nothing left to watch.


Tuned, my post was actually a response to the post above yours. And I certainly do believe in free speech. But free speech has nothing to do with The Sun News Network hiring Rob Ford. Of course they're allowed to put him on the air - but The Sun News Network is not TMZ.com. By putting Rob Ford on the air with his own show, the Network is proving they have no real news credibility and will air content simply to grab headlines and ratings. Maybe they're planning another new show called "Canadian Celebrity Rehab with host Ezra Levant."
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Mike Cleaver » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:09 pm

Nobody watches Stunned Snooze anyway.
Their ratings are dismal and their "stars" include such idiots as Ezra "The Rant" and homophobic asshole Michael Coren.
Ford just adds to the buffoonery.
Can't wait to see the CSBC complaints as soon as the fat man opens his big yap.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby tuned » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:16 pm

Sun News is proving they are trying to get ratings and make money. The same thing that Shaw and Bell are trying to do with their stable of channels.
Don't watch it if you it's not for you. That mutual fund huckster Kevin O'Leary is a total blowhard just like Ezra Levant and taxpayers are stuck lining his pockets on not one but two CBC shows. Why don't you bitch about that? How about David Suzuki? Another blowhard that has sucked millions from the taxpayer. Let's not forget another guy with a penchant for sticking his foot in his mouth, Donald S. Cherry. Sun TV is a private business that takes nothing from taxpayers unlike dozen of other channels that get direct and indirect subsidies.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby tuned » Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:25 pm

Cleaver is all for free speech as long as he agrees with what's being said. All excited about the prospect of some government bureaucracy coming down on Sun TV? He'd be squealing like a stuck pig if the bureaucrats messed around with one of his favorites. You're a bleeding heart socialist Cleaver and you've got lots of channels funded directly by taxpayers to watch.
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby isthisthingon » Fri Nov 15, 2013 2:49 pm

Tuned: In the words of C. Montgomery Burns - HUZZAH
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Re: Rob Ford gets TV show on Sun News Network

Postby Blabbermouth » Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:28 pm

tuned wrote:Sun News is proving they are trying to get ratings and make money. The same thing that Shaw and Bell are trying to do with their stable of channels.
Don't watch it if you it's not for you. That mutual fund huckster Kevin O'Leary is a total blowhard just like Ezra Levant and taxpayers are stuck lining his pockets on not one but two CBC shows. Why don't you bitch about that? How about David Suzuki? Another blowhard that has sucked millions from the taxpayer. Let's not forget another guy with a penchant for sticking his foot in his mouth, Donald S. Cherry. Sun TV is a private business that takes nothing from taxpayers unlike dozen of other channels that get direct and indirect subsidies.


If Don Cherry or Kevin O'Leary (who both bring in huge ratings and profit for the CBC) admitted to smoking crack they would be off the air before they made the "k" sound at the end of the sentence. Sun News is a joke and Canadians realize that and they aren't buyin'.

And don't forget, Sun is lobbying the feds to force cable companies to carry their ridiculous network (in the interest of "journalistic fairness"). Finally we have somewhere to go to get the crack-smoker's perspective on the news of the day.
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