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Global Television Network (view source)
Revision as of 21:27, November 1, 2023
, 21:27, November 1, 2023→Criticism of liberal bias, fake news and journalistic unprofessionalism: shortened section title
Canwest subsequently began acquiring some of the stations that carried Global programming, including CKVU-TV Vancouver and CIHF-TV [[Halifax]], as well as launching stations in [[Saskatchewan]] under the branding of STV, to form the Canwest Global System, a system of independent stations with individual branding for each station, in 1990. Following the acquisition of majority ownership in [[Quebec City]]'s then-[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] affiliate CKMI-TV and relaunching it as a Global station, the system relaunched as a network on August 18, 1997, using the generic Global TV brand (with no regional branding variations) on all of its owned stations from Vancouver to Halifax. When Canwest purchased the broadcast TV assets of Western International Communications in 2000, it added former WIC-owned independent stations in Alberta (CITV-TV Edmonton, CICT-TV Calgary and CISA-TV Lethbridge) to Global TV that year, then added former CTV affiliate CHAN-TV Vancouver on September 1, 2001 as a replacement for CKVU, which was up for sale and went independent the same day. Canwest went into creditor protection in October 2009 and its assets, including Global TV, were acquired by Shaw Communications in October 2010, then were turned over in turn to Shaw sister company Corus in April 2016.
Canwest subsequently began acquiring some of the stations that carried Global programming, including CKVU-TV Vancouver and CIHF-TV [[Halifax]], as well as launching stations in [[Saskatchewan]] under the branding of STV, to form the Canwest Global System, a system of independent stations with individual branding for each station, in 1990. Following the acquisition of majority ownership in [[Quebec City]]'s then-[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] affiliate CKMI-TV and relaunching it as a Global station, the system relaunched as a network on August 18, 1997, using the generic Global TV brand (with no regional branding variations) on all of its owned stations from Vancouver to Halifax. When Canwest purchased the broadcast TV assets of Western International Communications in 2000, it added former WIC-owned independent stations in Alberta (CITV-TV Edmonton, CICT-TV Calgary and CISA-TV Lethbridge) to Global TV that year, then added former CTV affiliate CHAN-TV Vancouver on September 1, 2001 as a replacement for CKVU, which was up for sale and went independent the same day. Canwest went into creditor protection in October 2009 and its assets, including Global TV, were acquired by Shaw Communications in October 2010, then were turned over in turn to Shaw sister company Corus in April 2016.
From its 1974 launch, Global has grown to its current level of 15 stations owned by Corus, along with two independently-owned affiliates. [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] independent station CJON-DT is also supplied with some Global programming, though it is not branded as such on the station (except for national newscast ''Global National'') but is instead marketed as syndicated programming.
From its 1974 launch, Global has grown to its current level of 15 stations owned by Corus, along with one independently-owned affiliate. [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] independent station CJON-DT is also supplied with some Global programming, though it is not branded as such on the station (except for national newscast ''Global National'') but is instead marketed as syndicated programming.
==Controversies==
Once a bastion for fair reporting in its newscasts, Global, like the rest of the [[mainstream media]], has recently taken a turn toward the Left akin to the CBC and most of the American networks in its news reporting and has shown blatant [[liberal bias]] and dishonesty in certain reports it has filed.
*When the election campaign bus of Canadian Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] was recently blocked by Aboriginal protesters during a campaign stop in [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], Global News political correspondent David Akin (who is also a member of the [[NDP]]-supporting media union Unifor, which has engaged in conflict of interest by producing election campaign ads attacking the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservatives]]<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_august_23_2021 Why didn’t mainstream media report when Aboriginal protests blocked Trudeau’s campaign bus?] at Rebel News</ref>) falsely claimed online that the bus had not been blocked and that video posted of the blockade by the protesters was "fake news" despite being present at the event.<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_campaign_bus_blocked_by_indigenous_activists Trudeau campaign bus blocked by Indigenous activists] at Rebel News</ref> Akin was called out for his dishonesty soon after he made his claim online, with Rebel News reporters Sheila Gunn Reid and Efron Monsanto calling Akin fake news for his comments while videographer Mocha Bezirgan replied to Akin by pointing out to him that he was not telling the truth, then posted a half-hour time-lapse video of the incident showing the protesters' actions; rather than retract his lie or apologize, Akin, showing himself unwilling to face or accept the truth, responded by indignantly blocking Bezirgan from his Twitter account.
*When the Trudeau campaign was confronted by protesters at a later campaign stop in White Rock, British Columbia, Global News reporter Abigail Bimman, who was in White Rock to cover the campaign, falsely claimed in a Twitter post that one of the protesters had yelled an anti-Semitic slur at Trudeau, a claim which was discredited in video posted by Rebel News in response.<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/protesters_chase_prime_minister_trudeau_out_of_british_columbia_event Protesters chase Prime Minister Trudeau out of British Columbia event] at Rebel News</ref> After the video was posted, Bimman doubled down on her lie in response, insisting that she had heard an anti-Semitic slur used by one of the protesters, which was also debunked by Rebel News reporter Matt Brevner (who stated that he heard no such comments ever used by the protesters against Trudeau). Bimman's tweet was also heavily criticized by numerous posters in response,<ref>[https://twitter.com/AbigailBimman/status/1430583926230159360 Abigail Bimman: "Trudeau marched by police all the way down street away from announcement site and around the corner before getting in a vehicle as he was surrounded and screamed at by protesters the whole time"] at Twitter ('''Warning:''' Contains liberal fake news and some tweets with foul language)</ref> with many of them calling Bimman out for lying as they stated that they heard no anti-Semitic slurs yelled in the video as claimed by Bimman, but that one of the anti-Trudeau protesters had actually yelled that the protesters did not want a two-tiered society, referencing the unconstitutional mandating of "vaccine passports" by Trudeau and his provincial counterparts.
*Shortly after [[Pierre Poilievre]] became the new leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] on September 10, 2022, David Akin engaged in journalistic unprofessionalism by seeing fit to heckle Poilievre and constantly interrupt and talk over him during a speech Poilievre was giving; Poilievre shut Akin down in response by calling him a "Liberal heckler".<ref>[https://youtu.be/Vw6aFmmrAXM Pierre Poilievre accuses mainstream media journalist of being "Liberal heckler"] at True North YouTube channel</ref>
*Global News reporter Rachel Gilmore, a self-appointed "fake news fighter", was outed as a fake news pusher herself<ref>[https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1579899013318709250 Ian Miles Cheong: "So you ripped off the VICE report and didn’t do any fact checking of your own or get comment from Elon Musk"] at Twitter</ref> when she retweeted a since-discredited Vice Media report that had claimed that Tesla owner [[Elon Musk]] had consulted with Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] regarding a diplomatic solution to end the [[Russia-Ukraine war]].<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/global_news_rachel_gilmore_publishes_breaking_fake_news_about_rachel_gilmore Global News' Rachel Gilmore publishes breaking fake news about Elon Musk] at Rebel News</ref> After getting roasted for posting her misinformation-spreading post on Twitter over an hour after Musk debunked Vice's claims (in which he stated that he had spoken to Putin only once, about space, 18 months prior to the Vice article) and for her hypocrisy in accusing others of spreading "fake news" and "disinformation" while doing exactly that herself, Gilmore was forced to update her post to include Musk's refutal of the Vice story.
Global has also come under criticism as one of numerous Canadian media outlets, large and small, that took bribe money from Justin Trudeau (totaling nearly C$660 million) to cover for him in news reports (including asking him "softball" questions while whitewashing and ignoring the numerous scandals he has faced while in power) and spout the same [[fake news]], lies and twisting of narratives already being spewed by the CBC.<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/how-trudeau-bought-the-media/ How Trudeau bought the media] at the Western Standard
*[https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/22/justin-trudeau-gives-595-million-tax-relief-to-eligible-media/ Justin Trudeau Gives $595 Million Tax Relief to ‘Eligible’ Media] at Breitbart News Network
*[https://realwomenofcanada.ca/trudeaus-manipulation-of-the-media/ Trudeau’s Manipulation of the Media]
*[https://www.rebelnews.com/exclusive_news_media_who_secretly_took_trudeaus_61m_pre-election_pay-off Every news media who secretly took Trudeau's $61M pre-election pay-off] at Rebel News</ref> The Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched a petition in February 2022 that called for an end to Trudeau's unethical use of taxpayer funds to bribe other media outlets (including Global) to report favorably about the Trudeau regime and to lie about and smear the regime's opponents like the CBC does, as well as calling for the CBC to be defunded.<ref>[https://tnc.news/2022/02/25/taxpayer-watchdog-launches-petition-to-defund-cbc-and-end-media-funding/ Taxpayer watchdog launches petition to defund CBC and end media funding] at True North</ref>
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