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Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly
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Originally Posted by geofra
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I'm not sure how to respond to this thread, but I would like to point out a few things as regards the
Toronto Sun.
The
Sun rose out of the ashes of the
Toronto Telegram, a slightly right-of-centre broadsheet newspaper. When the
Tely, as it was popularly known, died as a result of a labour dispute in 1970 or so; its editors and reporters decided to keep going as the tabloid
Toronto Sun. Which they did, independently, for a number of years. Always slightly right-of-centre, but not overly much, and a nice balance to the slightly-left-of-centre
Toronto Star. Which continues to be left-of-centre, but not overly much. A friend of mine once summed up the
Sun as "Cops! Boobs! Sports!" because they covered local crime extensively, featured well-endowed bikini-clad girls on page 3, and had the best sports page in town.
But in the last ten years or so, the
Sun has departed from the idea that its founders had--that is, slightly right-of-centre--and has taken a hard lurch to the far right. Immigrants of any sort are leeching off you; Islam wants to kill you; you need a gun to protect yourself and Canada's handgun laws must change; Justin Trudeau is a pansy who gives in too easily to other nations, and similar. To the
Sun's credit, it clearly labels opinion as opinion, and always datelines wire news items as coming from the AP, UPI, CP, or Reuters. Those datelined items coming from non-
Sun sources are pretty much trustworthy; the rest, not so much. But the
Sun, and its editorial stance, has an audience, as the OP has demonstrated.
The
Toronto Sun, and its sister papers in such places as Calgary, are entertaining in a weird way; but as a reliable reporter of news, they're not. Unless it comes straight off the wire from a reliable and reputable wire service, such examples as I gave above. Nowadays, when the
Sun does its own thing, it's about as reputable as the
Weekly World News, complete with BatBoy, Soviet bombers being found on the moon, and Elvis being alive and well and living in in Perth, Ontario.
Anybody who cites the
Toronto Sun as a news source might do well to find a better and more reputable source, IMHO.
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