The format for the CTV Newsnet channel in the morning has taken on all the appearances of another typical Canadian / liberal media / Toronto-produced chick show (like nearly every other minute of broadcast media in Canada today). This CTV Newsnet morning format (it’s actually the old “Canada AM” but dumber) is like The View only politically, it’s much more mushy middle, and even more politically-correct and dumb. It is, in a word, oh-so-Canadian liberal media. No hard questions, no mental challenges, no challenging anything actually, no meaningful explanations. Just liberal, politically-correct mental mush.
I don’t believe there’s a conservative-minded person within six miles of their studio —although I did hear their business expert, the very pretty Amanda Lang from their Business News Network division, say today that job-creation in the nation is up in the latest statistics, and most of those jobs were NOT government jobs, which, she explained to my amazement, is good(!), because, she said, government jobs are “not really what you want to see”. What’s that you say? ”[N]ot really what you want to see”! Correct! This is of course something you would NOT hear on the socialist state-run CBC, where every job is a government job, just like in communist countries, and which is a channel that is similarly “not really what you want to see”.
But aside from that, as I say about many mindless daytime shows and personalities —particularly Canadian ones, and all of the CBC— watching this actually makes you dumber by the second. So I had to flip over to Fox News Channel every few minutes just to re-ignite my brain so I could carry on.
As I type, the gals are discussing jewelry, and “What Women Want”. This is on a news channel. A news channel that hopes to attract both males and females. With brains. To explain issues to Canadians. Like the Afghanistan war. Hey how do you think this is going to work out?
It seems they aim to just stay out of trouble—say nothing too “political”. And above all, they seem to aim to appear as politically-correct and “multicultural” and as culturally “representative” of Canada—or at least Canada as they see it or would like to see it—as humanly possible. So from what I could tell, they ensure that most of the on-air time is represented by personalities who are non-Caucasian, and female (and when they do have males, they seem to have ensured most of them are well-coiffed metro-males who are, of course, sensitive). Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It’s like a Comedy Channel or Saturday Night Live or Mad TV spoof about the crappy American network morning shows, only it’s not! They set it all up with a cast of non-white women and over-coiffed men, give ‘em all one of those big coffee mugs with the network logo on them, plunk ‘em down on a cutesy set, then engage in this hideously moronic chit-chat on the most base, cheesy level possible, giggle a lot, and evoke these theatrical over-emphasized and knowing nods or head-shakes and these feigned looks of concern when the topic story is a serious or sad “in the news” item. Only they’re serious about this. And you just can’t write comedy like that!
Here are some of the gals chatting over that ubiquitous cup ‘o coffee. As you can see, they’ve got a lovely stage set which is obviously designed by women for women. News and information: it’s all about gals. Who knew.
The show is a bad mixture of obviously pre-recorded segments that are regurgitated over and over, bad boring robotic news reading, and uncomfortable chit-chat between the gals.
At one point, right in the middle of a “news” story about dogs (or something which once again wasn’t explaining the importance of winning the Afghanistan war), the broadcast inexplicably broke to a commercial—right in the middle of the story—in the middle of the sentence that the “news” reporter was speaking (on tape). And that techno-gaffe occurred right after the TV screen inexplicably froze for about 30 seconds with nothing but a faint, dark, ghostly, frozen image of two of the “news” gals apparently ready to go, on our screens (obviously another pre-recorded “news” segment that got stuck in the VCR).
(Here’s the gals after they got the tape unstuck. Phew. Nearly missed some of their “news”!)
And here’s weather gal Rena Heer explaining the weather to the gals. It’s good to get a weather perspective from a gal for the gals for once. That’s what’s missing in this country. (By the way, I’ve noticed that on both of the two Canadian cable news channels, endlessly explaining the national weather in detail, across the country, is about as important as anything on Earth, as they keep going back to it every 13 seconds or so).
Here, we have some of the cast of news gals on the CTV morning news show exchanging some fun, spontaneous banter: Their names are Omar Sachedina, Mi-Jung Lee, and Rena Heer.
Now it’s off to the best channel in Canada, Fox News Channel, where I can actually grow my brain and be entertained by their excellent delivery.
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