I like living in a cable universe where there is a Sun News Network but I do think it could shine a little brighter.
The sets are alright - pretty Foxish if you ask me but I am okay with that. And I like the idea that they were manufactured here in Canada.
But how about a news update every half hour? Better news crawlers would be appreciated too. What about a news hour at dinner and again around 10 pm? Seriously, if Sun News does this I might never switch the channel. Really. Because I like to know what is going on I switch it to CTV at the top and bottom of every hour to find out what is happening across the country and around the world.
The evening shows spend too much time looping. I don't like that. At all.
I know, I know, 20 million for a budget isn't much of a budget but surely there must be some Television Broadcasting new graduate who would be delighted for a shot at reading news and doing graveyard hours talk shows for cheap. Please note that I didn't say journalism grad - I don't think very much of our university journalism faculties. But that is beside the point. More meat, less filler please.
But I digress from the my original intent of my blog as the title above suggest, so here goes...
I have a crush on Ezra so it is really hard to say anything that can be construed as critical. Ezra, I adore you but do you remember that dinner back in October in Ottawa hosted by the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies? Remember the story Mark Steyn told about what it was like to be a guest on the Glenn Beck show? How Glenn would wax on and on about the guest and whatever the guest wrote/spoke out about but never actually let the guest speak?
Yeaaaahhhh.
Sorry buddy, but you need to let your guests speak a bit more. I know you have a lot to say and I want to hear it. Maybe you could let your guests speak a little more - you have lots of airtime coming to you so you don't have to get everything out there in the first week.
It's like the time I told my friend Lula that she needed to get her upper lip waxed. It was hard for me to say and it was harder for her to hear it but it had to be said.
Ezra, I tell you this because I love you.
The sets are alright - pretty Foxish if you ask me but I am okay with that. And I like the idea that they were manufactured here in Canada.
But how about a news update every half hour? Better news crawlers would be appreciated too. What about a news hour at dinner and again around 10 pm? Seriously, if Sun News does this I might never switch the channel. Really. Because I like to know what is going on I switch it to CTV at the top and bottom of every hour to find out what is happening across the country and around the world.
The evening shows spend too much time looping. I don't like that. At all.
I know, I know, 20 million for a budget isn't much of a budget but surely there must be some Television Broadcasting new graduate who would be delighted for a shot at reading news and doing graveyard hours talk shows for cheap. Please note that I didn't say journalism grad - I don't think very much of our university journalism faculties. But that is beside the point. More meat, less filler please.
But I digress from the my original intent of my blog as the title above suggest, so here goes...
I have a crush on Ezra so it is really hard to say anything that can be construed as critical. Ezra, I adore you but do you remember that dinner back in October in Ottawa hosted by the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies? Remember the story Mark Steyn told about what it was like to be a guest on the Glenn Beck show? How Glenn would wax on and on about the guest and whatever the guest wrote/spoke out about but never actually let the guest speak?
Yeaaaahhhh.
Sorry buddy, but you need to let your guests speak a bit more. I know you have a lot to say and I want to hear it. Maybe you could let your guests speak a little more - you have lots of airtime coming to you so you don't have to get everything out there in the first week.
It's like the time I told my friend Lula that she needed to get her upper lip waxed. It was hard for me to say and it was harder for her to hear it but it had to be said.
Ezra, I tell you this because I love you.
Well i just saw Jack Layton on the morning segment.He was rather impressive actually.So much so i just may see what else he has to say about these internet fees.
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A News crawler would be fine but meal time news or late evening news is only good for those places it's a mealtime or late evening.
ReplyDeleteIn other parts of the country, it's not.
As well, I have yet to find any of the other networks carry any in depth news anyway. Half the time, I already knew what they were reporting, hours earlier.
Valid criticisms. I change to other channels a lot as the talk shows on SunTV bog down into endless discussions of whatever the subject,and I like to know what else is going on in the world.
ReplyDeleteSunTV needs the help of,dare I say it, an American television News production specialist,to give it more of a "Fox" feeling. The MSM in Canada may hate Fox and would slander Sun even further, but Fox IS successful, and that's all that counts in the real unsubsidized world of entertainment.
So far, Sun TV looks like a small town television station production.They need some Yankee help.
Oh, and I love Ezra too, in a decent,manly way.
Beyond production and set improvements, I think at least one show is hurting more than harming Sun News - Caldwell. I watched a few minutes of his segment about Russell Williams .. and he makes Nancy Grace look good.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I agree with your position. I'm a news junkie myself but I can do without the repetitive ticker tape for an hour. Actually I find it annoying sometimes. Looks like we all love Ezra and for me I could listen to him for hours let alone an hour. Just to let you know, I love your blogs almost always, but not this time. Just my two cents.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right. Ezra has to learn to listen.
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