Right-Wing Propaganda Machine Sun News Closed Down

Toronto news room: We've not been kept in any communication," said the employee in the Toronto news room, who wanted to remain anonymous."That obviously very, very frustrating."The Sun News source said the network was "run by insiders who did not know a thing about television."Dubbed as "Fox News of the North" at its launch in 2011, the network was criticized for having cozy links to Harper Conservatives, according to Vancouver Observer. Once on air, it also suffered from a number of high-profile blunders. The network confirmed Friday it will go off the airwaves, after its failure to establish the programming as a viable news channel in Canada.A journalist with Sun News in Toronto said Thursday that employees are stunned."Management has not told us anything on this entire journey of uncertainty. In 2012, the network was outed by the Canadian Press for putting on a fake citizenship immigration swearing in ceremony, where federal immigration employees were recruited to pretend to be immigrants. In another incident, former Sun TV host Krista Erickson did an unusually combative interview with dancer Margie Gillis about her funding. Conservative Minister Jason Kenney was forced to apologize. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.