Ironic, don't you think?

Alanis Morissette certainly wasn't singing about Canada's awful Sun News Network (or Stunned News, as I call it), but she might have well been.

Check out this piece on the neo-con network that some call Fox News north.  Sun News isn't just Fox north, it's Fox awful...  with programming that concentrates almost solely on extricating the liberal bogeyman from the lives of ordinary Canadians.

Sun News' favourite target is Canada's national broadcaster the CBC.  Not a day goes by, it seems, when some mouth-breathing Sun commentator isn't bashing the CBC and its taxpayer funded base.

Oh how the tables are turned.  Now (and this is the ironic part), the government-bashing network is seeking government help in broadening its base and finding viewers... apparently being loud and obnoxious isn't enough.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/21/sun-news-loss-crtc-basic-cable_n_2522396.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Trouble is, Canadians tend to be small-l liberal by nature, lovers of horrible, free-enterprise killing things like health care and gun control.   So even if owners of the Stun are successful in gaining a spot on the regular cable dial, I doubt anyone would watch.

Oh and another irony... Sun News is owned by Quebecor, a company that has benefitted from cosy political ties and millions in tax breaks in the past

Another one soon bites the dust...