John Doyle (critic)
John Doyle (born 1957) is one of the two television critics (along with Andrew Ryan) with Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper. Doyle also covers major football events for the paper.
He was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary in Ireland. As a teenager he moved to Dublin before emigrating to Canada in the 1980s. A writer, he has written a number of books about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland. He was first hired by the Globe to write for Broadcast Week, the paper's weekly television listings, as a columnist. In 1997 he moved to the newspaper itself, which unlike Broadcast Week is published across the country. In 2000 he was appointed the Globe's daily television critic.
In April 2004 Doyle penned a column titled "Who's afraid of the big bad Fox? Certainly not us [1]" mocking Fox News. To Doyle's surprise the column was posted on many conservative newsgroups and forums, such as Free Republic, and he was bombarded by complaints. This prompted Doyle to write more columns such as "Fox News. Not here yet, but already hilarious [2]." Doyle has continued penning such columns as "Hell looks an awful lot like the Republican convention[3]" In 2005, Doyle published a memoir: A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age.
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- John Doyle (2005). A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age. Random House of Canada. ISBN 0-385-66042-1 (hardcover); ISBN 0-385-66043-X (paperback).
- John Doyle (2010). The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer. Doubleday Canada. ISBN 978-0-385-66498-1 (0-385-66498-2).
