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December 9, 2010

Reference Material for Video: Sun TV News…Fox News North?

December 9, 2010

Below is the transcript and source material of the video. The BOLD sections represent the text and spoken words in the video.

Sun TV News…Fox News North?

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Quebecor Inc. will launch a 24-hour news channel in Canada on January 01, 2011.

[NOTE: launch date originally intended for above date, as outlined by globeandmail.ca article that read: “The company announced Tuesday it will launch the 24-hour news channel on Jan. 1, 2011, if it receives regulatory approval.” source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/quebecor-fires-warning-shot-at-all-news-networks/article1604757/. But the launch date was pushed back and did not occur until April 18, 2011]

CLIP: 1
VIDEO: 1
TIME: 00.21 – 00.26
V/O: “Canada, it’s time, time for Sun News.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdGLxJu0h0

CLIP: 2
VIDEO: 2
TIME: 01.13 – 01.19
DATE: June 15, 2010
Teneyche: “It will pull no punches, and it will be factual, fair, and entertaining.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jZhLRWBMkg

CITATION: 1
DATE: September 15, 2010
Pierre Karl Peladeau – the owner, CEO, and President of Quebecor Inc. – had help in creating Sun TV News from its architect Kory Teneycke.
[Teneycke…“Mastermind”; “Driving Force”]
SOURCE:http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/editorials/Harper+spokesman+Kory+Teneycke+quits/3528195/story.html

CLIP: 3
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 00.37 – 00.49
DATE: September 15, 2010
Terry Milewski: “Tory Teneycke used to be Stephen Harper’s communications director before quitting and doing a brief stint as a conservative commentator on the CBC, then he quit again to set up a new conservative news channel.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

And what format is the conservative Sun TV News Network going to follow to provide “factual, fair, and entertaining” news programming?

CLIP: 4
VIDEO: 4
TIME: 3.56 – 4.16
DATE: June 16, 2010
Teneycke: “if you are watching SKYNET in the UK. If you’re watching MSNBC or CNBC or CNN headline news, you see a format of television that is both hard news during the day and opinion shows at night. Nobody does that in Canada. It’s a market opportunity.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBHI8JpE34

And so, Sun News…

CLIP: 5
VIDEO: 2
TIME: 1.01 – 01.13
DATE: June 15, 2010
Teneycke: “…different from the all-news-channels we already have in Canada by offering an attractive mix of hard news reporting during the day and straight talk, opinion journalism at night.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jZhLRWBMkg

Another news channel that uses the news/opinion programming format is…

CLIP: 6
VIDEO: 5
TIME: 00.24 – 00.29
V/O: “only one is fair and balanced – Fox News Channel”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7Br_r2GlM

CITATION: 2
DATE: various
LOCATION: Cables News TV Ratings (fox ratings; fox success)
Like Fox News, Kory Teneycke and the Sun TV News Network want to be commercially accomplished.
SOURCE: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2007/09/01/all-our-charts

CLIP: 7
VIDEO: 4
TIME: 04.21 – 04.26
DATE: June 16, 2010
Teneycke: “success for us is about business, about attracting viewers, about being successful.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBHI8JpE34

CLIP: 8
VIDEO: 4
TIME: 04.27 – 04.30
DATE: June 16, 2010
Teneycke: “Quebecor is a company doing this b/c it wants to make money.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBHI8JpE34

That makes Fox News’ proven-to-work format and programming style an ideal one to replicate.

A connection exists to Fox News that is far greater than simply that, however.

QUOTE: 1
DATE: August 19, 2010
Before leaving the Harper Government in the summer of 2009, Kory Teneycke and “Prime Minister Stephen Harper lunched in New York with Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch, who owns it.”
SOURCE:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/lawrence-martin/is-stephen-harper-set-to-move-against-the-crtc/article1677632/

And…

QUOTE: 2
DATE: June 09, 2010
“By hiring Teneycke, Quebecor and its president and CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau are following the path of Fox News Channel, whose founding president Roger Ailes is a former communications adviser to Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr.”
SOURCE:http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/821457–fox-news-north-former-harper-spokesman-joins-qmi-bid-for-all-news-network

Pejoratively dubbed Fox News North, Sun TV News’ purpose has been drawn into question; that the news channel is not meant to merely replicate the Fox Network’s financial earnings in Canada.

CLIP: 9
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 0.57 – 01.24
DATE: September 15, 2010
Terry Milewski: “the proposed channel owned by Pierre Peladeau was immediately dubbed fox news north by critics on the left who say it will be right-wing propaganda.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

CLIP: 10
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 01.01 –
DATE: September 15, 2010
Terry Milewski: “a global activist group Avaaz setup an online petition against it”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

QUOTE: 3
DATE: September 15, 2010
Avaaz did so for Canada to avoid programming like “Fox News[’]…extremely biased, deceptive, often hate-filled content…which really poisons American democracy.”
Ricken Patel
The Canadian co-founder of Avaaz
SOURCE:http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/editorials/Harper+spokesman+Kory+Teneycke+quits/3528195/story.html

But…

CLIP: 11
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 01.06 –
DATE: September 15, 2010
Terry Milewski: “all kinds of journalists and political staffers who did not sign it got emails thanking them for signing. someone added their names without asking.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

CLIP: 12
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 01.25 – 01.48
DATE: September 15, 2010
Kady O’Malley: “I checked my mail box and there was a letter thanking me for signing. … no i didn’t sign, i hadn’t even got to the webpage until i got the letter. CBC’s Kady O’malley was annoyed and then intrigued to see that Kory Teneycke quickly published a column saying maybe Margaret Atwood signed but that the petition was bogus b/c of all the fake names on it – names that were not made public but which he happened to know.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

How did Kory Teneycke know about the phony names?

CLIP: 13
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 01.54 – 01.56
DATE: September 15, 2010
Teneycke: “you don’t reveal sources.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

Was Kory Teneycke involved in a scheme to discredit the petition?

CLIP: 14
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 01.56 –
DATE: September 15, 2010
Terry Milewski: “Avaaz tracked the source of the names to one computer in ottawa and yesterday they asked the RCMP for a fraud investigation.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

Within 24 hours…

CLIP: 15
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 00.03 – 00.08
DATE: September 15, 2010
Host: “One of the top executives of Sun TVs all news network quit today. Kory Teneycke stepped down.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

A coincidence?

CLIP: 16
VIDEO: 3
SOURCE:
TIME: 02.23 – 02.35
DATE: September 15, 2010
Rinken: “if this was a coincidence, it was a very unlikely one b/c the resignation was sudden, it was unexpected, and it occurred just 24 hrs after we had requested a criminal investigation into a fraudulent sabotage of our campaign.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

CITATION: 3
DATE: September 14, 2010
Avaaz filed a criminal investigation into tampering with its Sun News petition on September 14, 2010.
Date of investigation request: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/09/avaaz-vs-sun-news-tv-redux-hey-remember-that-whole-petition-kerfuffle.html

CITATION: 4
DATE: September 15, 2010
And on September 15, 2010, Kory Teneycke resigned from his position as vice-president of development with Sun News.
Date of resignation: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/15/teneycke-quits-quebecor-media/

So, why did Kory Teneycke resign?

CLIP: 17
VIDEO: 3
TIME: 02.09 – 02.17
DATE: September 15, 2010
Teneycke: “problems associated with such a quick move from active politics to overseeing a bureau covering the very gov’t you worked for are obvious.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6lsToOzxw

That is undeniable, but it is not why he resigned, for he believes…

CLIP: 18
VIDEO: 6
TIME: 2.55 – 3.20
DATE: June 16, 2010
Teneycke: “there are people who are in journalism and go into politics. there are people who go from politics into the media…i don’t see any problem with it. i don’t think it’s an issue. I’m not a journalist presenting news stories. I’m somebody who’s an executive for a media company.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdTD2Hu_IHs

He quit because regardless if he were directly involved in the petition scandal or only appeared to have been, Kory Teneycke’s connection with Sun TV News has become a liability for the news network.

Though Kory Teneycke is no longer officially working for Sun News, his goal has been achieved:

CLIP: 19
VIDEO: 4
TIME: 00.10
DATE: June 16, 2010
Don Newman: “You said to me in 2003: ‘Canada needs a fox news’, and now here you are using Peladeau’s money to create one.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBHI8JpE34

What could be meant by “Canada needs a Fox News”?

The Sun News format – along with Fox News, MSNBC, and others – is designed to reduce objectivity and provide a framework upon which a narrative can be built and the line between news and opinion can be blurred.

QUOTE: 4
DATE: November 14, 2010
“The commercial success of both Fox News and MSNBC [is] of drowning television viewers in a flood of opinions…[a] trend [that] is not good for the public”.
SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202857.html

CLIP: 20
VIDEO: 7
TIME: 00.30 – 00.40
DATE: January 26, 2007
Murdoch: “I think good strong news organizations can, by disclosing things, help shape the agenda.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nK3kHC5LY

CLIP: 21
VIDEO: 8
TIME: 01.04 – 01.34
DATE: November 01, 1994
Chomsky: “its opinion. it’s through opinion only that the governed submit. meaning, thought control. if you can control peoples minds, you can control them even though they have the power. that’s what the struggle for democracy has been all about.”
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrbRzVGK6k8

Canada needs an all-news channel with news/opinion programming?

Canada needs Sun TV News?

Canada needs news that is factual, fair, and entertaining and fair and balanced?

This Concerns Me
Does it Concern You?

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The Conservative Stephen Harper Government’s Anti-Drug Strategy (information for the 2008 Canadian election)

September 19, 2008

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Below are the cited sources from the video The Conservative Stephen Harper Government’s Anti-Drug Strategy (information for the 2008 election)

1 – Video Clip

Description/Quote: Anchor woman on Conservative anti-drug strategy
Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: October 4, 2007

Posted by/Author: nomoredrugwar
Posted on/Last Updated on: October 4, 2007
Title: Harper Drug Strategy: Ottawa Coverage
Powered by: youbube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKH5I5JrRGc&feature=related

2 – Video Clip

Description: Stephen Harper introduces anti-drug strategy
Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred one: October 4, 2007

Posted by/Author: pmocpm

Posted on/Last Updated on: October 19, 2007
Title: Anti-Drug Strategy – Stratégie de lutte contre la drogue
Powered by: youtube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK49WvqNTA

3 – Video Clip

Description/Quote: Stephen Harper introduces the Tory anti-drug Strategy

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: October 4, 2007
Posted by/Author: pmocpm
Posted on/Last Updated on: October 19, 2007
Title: Anti-Drug Strategy – Stratégie de lutte contre la drogue
Powered by: youtube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FK49WvqNTA

4 – Online News Article

Description: The Conservatives’ anti-drug strategy

Quote: “Harper said harm reduction is not a ‘distinct pillar’ in the Conservative strategy.”

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/04/drug-strategy.html

Occurred on: October 4, 2007

Posted by/Author: CBC News
Posted on/Last Updated on: October 4, 2007
Title: PM wants mandatory sentences for ‘serious’ drug crimes
Powered by: cbc.ca
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/04/drug-strategy.html

5 – Online News Article
Description: Stephen Harper explains how he feels about harm reduction

Quote: I made a mistake here. I did not include the “…”

“I remain a skeptic that…somehow we will keep you addicted and yet reduce the harm just the same”.

Context of Quote/Material:: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/04/drug-strategy.html

Occurred on: October 4, 2007
Posted by/Author: CBC News
Posted on/Last Updated on: October 4, 2007
Title: PM wants mandatory sentences for ‘serious’ drug crimes

6 – Video Clip

Description: Stephen Harper explains how he feels about harm reduction

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/04/drug-

strategy.html

Occurred on: October 4, 2007
Posted by/Author: nomoredrugwar
Posted on/Last Updated on: October 4, 2007
Title: Harper Drug Strategy: Ottawa Coverage
Powered by: youtube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKH5I5JrRGc&feature=related

7 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast about InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: November 20, 2006
Posted by/Author: leper99
Posted on/Last Updated on: November 20, 2006
Title: north america’s first safe-injection site to lose funding
Powered by: youtube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZsjZ3zgmpc

8 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

9 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

10 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

11 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: “The Canadian Medical Association Journal is also critical of the Harper

government.”

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZsjZ3zgmpc

12 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/175/11/1399

13 – Video Clip
Description: CBC Newscast on InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/175/11/1399

14 – Online Medical Journal Article
Description: Tony Clement says research on InSite is unequivocal

Quote: “scientific evidence about InSite’s efficacy was fraught with uncertainty.”

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/6/521?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=safe+injection+sites&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

Occurred on: August 18, 2008
Posted by/Author: Canadian Medical Association Journal
Posted on/Last Updated on: September 9, 2008
Title: Federal Health Minister assails ethics of Insite
Powered by: cmaj.ca (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
URL: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/6/521?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=safe+injection+sites&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

15 – Video Clip

Description: During a Standing Committee of Health meeting, Tony Clement says that the science is mixed on the effectiveness of InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSz1Kbs8alY

Occurred on: between May 28 to June 1 of 2008
Posted by/Author: PrimarySource888
Posted on/Last Updated on: June 01, 2008
Title: Canadian government to appeal safe-injection site ruling
Powered by: youtube.com
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSz1Kbs8alY

16 – Video Clip

Description: Libby Davies is upset Tony Clement says “the science is mixed” on Insite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbkmwBurcFk&feature=related

Occurred on: May 10, 2008
Posted by/Author: NDPVIDEO
Posted on/Last Updated on: May 30, 2008
Title: NDP: Libby Davies on Insite 2
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URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbkmwBurcFk&feature=related

17 – Video Clip
Description: Hedy Fry points out that Tony Clement has his own research scientists

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YxrsP2LebE

18 – Video Clip
Description: Hedy Fry questions if Tony Clement’s scientists’ research was peer-reviewed

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YxrsP2LebE

19 – Online News Article
Description: Dr. Thomas Kerr says Tony Clement is “highly selective” with facts

Quote: ‘Dr. Thomas Kerr, of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul’s Hospital, said Clement is “highly selective” in his facts, saying his information is based on articles that haven’t been subjected to a peer review.’

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=6b4373fe-318c-4a9d-a217-81811a640181

Occurred on: September 15, 2008
Posted by/Author: The Vancouver Sun
Posted on/Last Updated on: September 18, 2008
Title: Federal health minister slams Insite injection site
Powered by: canada.com
URL: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=6b4373fe-318c-4a9d-a217-81811a640181

20 – Video Clip
Description: Robert Thibault

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIEL0obdSo

Occurred on: May 29, 2008
Posted by/Author: BillC26
Posted on/Last Updated on: May 31, 2008
Title: Liberals Respond to Conservative Appealing InSite Decision
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URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIEL0obdSo

21 – Video Clip

Description: During a Standing Committee of Health meeting, Tony Clement says that Insite is a public policy failure

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSz1Kbs8alY

22 – Video Clip

Description: In response to Clement’s suggestion that InSite is a failure, Hedy Fry retorts by listing community members that disagree

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSz1Kbs8alY

23 – Online News Article

Description: Cummings talks about the Conservative blind dislike of Insite after Clement had said that Insite is not harm reduction but rather “harm addition”

Quote: “[Kathleen] Cummings also noted that the Conservative government’s stand against safe injection sites isn’t economically sound.”

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: August 5, 2008 or August 6, 2008
Posted by/Author: ctv.ca news staff
Posted on/Last Updated on: August 6, 2008
Title: Injection sites lead to ‘harm addition:’ Clement
Powered by: ctv.ca
URL: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080806/clement_WHO_080806?s_name=&no_ads=

24 – Online News Article

Description: Cummings continues by supporting her claim that the Conservatives thinking is not economically sound

Quote: “Financially, it’s more cost effective to provide prevention than treatment afterwards”.

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

25 – Online News Article

Description: Results of 25 studies on InSite

Quote: “More than 25 studies, published in some of the world’s leading medical journals, have shown that Vancouver’s InSite facility keeps healthcare and law-enforcement budgets down while minimizing harm to addicts.”

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080806/clement_WHO_080806?s_name=&no_ads=

26 – Video Clilp

Description: Libby Davies gives more evidence for the effectiveness of InSite

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: May 5, 2008
Posted by/Author: BILLC26
Posted on/Last Updated on: May 6, 2008
Title: May 5, 2008 – Libby Davies asking for answers on Insite
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URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiiMJOz50A

27 – Online News Article

Description: Facts on InSite’s effectiveness

Quote: “In a paper published Friday in Addiction, the world’s foremost medical journal on drug dependency say[s] InSite deserves credit for a 30 per cent increase in the number of addicts getting off the streets and into detox and treatment programs”, and “The report…concludes that InSite has helped to reduce the rates of injection use among users of the facility.”

Context of Quote/Material: N/A

Occurred on: around May 25, 2007
Posted by/Author: cbc.ca
Posted on/Last Updated on: May 25, 2007
Title: New research supports Vancouver’s safe injection site
Powered by: cbc.ca
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/05/25/bc-report.html

28 – Video Clip

Description: Harper expresses how he feels toward harm reduction programs

Quote: N/A

Context of Quote/Material: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/04/drug-strategy.html

Occurred on: October 4, 2008

Posted by/Author: nomoredrugwar

Posted on/Last Updated on: October 4, 2008

Title: Harper Drug Strategy: Ottawa Coverage

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKH5I5JrRGc&feature=related

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