Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada

[MoshMasterD]

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Galraedia (52 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Oct-13-11 05:07 PM
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Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada
   
"As America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades - against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News - fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canadian regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.

Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right-wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom. As a result of that law, Canadians enjoy high quality news coverage, including the kind of foreign affairs and investigative journalism that flourished in this country before Ronald Reagan abolished the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987. Political dialogue in Canada is marked by civility, modesty, honesty, collegiality, and idealism that have pretty much disappeared on the US airwaves. When Stephen Harper moved to abolish the anti-lying provision of the Radio Act, Canadians rose up to oppose him fearing that their tradition of honest non-partisan news would be replaced by the toxic, overtly partisan, biased and dishonest news coverage familiar to American citizens who listen to Fox News and talk radio. Harper's proposal was timed to facilitate the launch of a new right-wing network, "Sun TV News" which Canadians call "Fox News North."

Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush-like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery; false patriotism, bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.

Harper's attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television are a stark admission that right-wing political ideology can only dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a political party or broadcast network that makes itself the tool of corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular with the public. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News' notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin's protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided."

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox...

What the DUchebag FAILS to mention is that Fox News is READILY available in Canada through Sirius-XM satellite radio.  It costs less than the cable bills up there.

[Freeper]

If they made lying illegal in the states Keef, Rachel, and ED would be unemployed.

[Duke Nukum]

Fox News broke the Bush DUI story on the eve of an election.

[NHSparky]

Compaq can correct me, but isn't there also a Canadian content law on their radio and television outlets?

[Chris_]

Compaq can correct me, but isn't there also a Canadian content law on their radio and television outlets?

There is.  I saw it during the credits the last time I watched the McKenzie Brothers.

While under Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regulations at least 60% of program has to be Canadian-produced, and 50% on prime time, English-language private broadcasters such as CTV and Global have always had difficulty airing more than a bare minimum of indigenous programming in primetime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Canada#Canadian_content

[dandi]

LETS HEAR IT FOR PRIOR RESTRAINT!!!


 [/DU mode]

[MoshMasterD]

Compaq can correct me, but isn't there also a Canadian content law on their radio and television outlets?

Not satellite radio.  It's a private entity.

[franksolich]

If they made lying illegal in the states Keef, Rachel, and ED would be unemployed.

If we had the law against lying, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather would've never been on the air, period.

[DumbAss Tanker]

They also don't seem to realize that 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border, US broadcasts reach the majority of Canadians already.

[Wineslob]

DUmmies, come here and point out the "lies" that FOX tells.

[FlaGator]

DUmmies, come here and point out the "lies" that FOX tells.

Keep in mind that to liberals all truth is relative. If it doesn't agree with a liberal precept then it must be a lie.

[LionsDen]

Fox News broke the Bush DUI story on the eve of an election.

WPXT-TV, a Fox local affiliate in Portland, Maine broke the story, not Fox News. 

[NHSparky]

WPXT-TV, a Fox local affiliate in Portland, Maine broke the story, not Fox News. 

The difference being exactly?  Even the local reporter admitted she'd been tipped off by Tom Connolly, who, by the way, has had more than a few issues of his own in the years since.  I particularly liked the time he got arrested while dressed as OBL and waving a gun on I-295 in South Portland a few years back.  And in a state that's about as liberal (or at least Dem-leaning) as any in New England, he can only manage 12 percent of the vote when running for governor?  Seriously?



Yup--the very model of stability.  Lay off the Allen's Coffee Brandy, Tom.  That shit's a killer.