Talk:Global Television Network
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[edit] Unattributed criticism
The following paragraph makes charges against Global but does not say who was making them, other than "some critics":
Some critics charge that Global's news programs have become more conservative, and in particular more supportive of Israeli and American government policy in the Middle East. Global's Middle East correspondent Martin Himmell's documentary Confrontation at Concordia, on conflicts between pro- and anti-Zionist students at Concordia University, was strongly criticised for bias and selective reporting but was aired serveral times in prime time by the network in 2003.
The second sentence is particularly poor, since it uses the passive voice to avoid attitbuting the criticism to anyone. -- Mwalcoff 01:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Globbal's pro-Israeli bias is well known, and can be shown every evening by their coverage of Middle Eastern events. Nlsanand 00:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Global Edmonton
For those that don't know, Global Edmonton or CITV used to be known as ITV before becoming a Global affiliate station. Mr. C.C. 06:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Global Confusion
I've never understood Global. Global TV in Ottawa advertizes itself as "Ontario's source for news", but I have yet to see a Global reporter leave the greater Toronto area. A murder in Ottawa would (and has) gone unreported while "Ontario's source for news" reports on street sweepers in Toronto. Every anchor, reporter, and advertisement is very careful to use the word "Ontario" and never the word "Toronto", which seems very disingenuous. Even traffic and weather reports are branded as being for Ontario despite being solely for Toronto. Even having read the article, I am still left completely confused as to which markets Global claims to cover, and which markets it actually covers. --24.200.34.209 05:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Another simsub complaint
In the 2005-06 season, Global would go to commercial at the wrong time during live broadcasts of Saturday Night Live, usually as TV Funhouse or commercial parodies began. Since the NBC feed was substituted, viewers sometimes missed entire segments of the live broadcast. I know this definitely happened with Global Maritimes (definitely one of the most incompetent Canadian broadcasters around), but I don't know how much the rest of the network was affected. I had heard some of this happened with Global Quebec too but I'm not sure if it happened as much as with the Maritimes affiliate. 74.115.226.191 19:16, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
