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Global is not like Fox news at all, what are you talking about? Your description matches Rebel News though.
Global consistently outright lies and distorts anything left and center to make it look bad and consistently promotes far right viewpoints.
E.G. look at their coverage of any story that should be pro-worker or pro-NDP. They paint it as a bad thing every time.
Can you provide an example? Fox news is extremely right biased with a poor fact checking record. Global news hasn't failed any fact checks, they use reputable sources, and show very little bias. They are corporate owned and an offshoot of Shaw, so — it makes sense they're anti-worker's rights and more centrist, but that doesn't make them like Fox at all.
I've been out of Canada for a while, so I don't know how Global news is now. I suspect that comparing it to Fox News is probably overblown by about an order of magnitude, though. It's very corporate and very stupid, but not at the Fox level.
I remember when I was living near the Roncesvalles neighborhood of Toronto during an election, and Global News decided to run a national news story looking at my riding as some kind of microcosm of the country. The whole story pitted it as a heated contest between the Liberals and Conservatives. I have no idea where they found the Conservative lawn signs for their establishing shots. The Liberals won handily that time with probably 50% of the vote to the NDP's 35%. I think the Tory got about 12%. It was an incredibly stupid and misleading story that they probably only ran because it was cheap to make (since their Toronto correspondents could drive 15 minutes from downtown in the middle of the day to interview people who don't have day jobs).
Oh no, they still suck. I haven't read Global News in a while, I'm just aware of them. Part of my job includes collating news from around the world, which is why I started a few news coms here to diversify the feed a bit.
I haven't seen that article, so I can't speak to it. I did once make a statement, as a teenager, to a global news reporter that got sensationalized in print, so I believe you about coercing stories that draw more readers. It's just a big difference between corporate spin-doctor shenanigans and fox news' pulling shit straight out of their asses.