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False story taps into DU's core fascism
« on: January 12, 2012, 04:00:08 PM »
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 FOX News banned from Canada for lying during news cast
http://sayitaintsoalready.com/2011/03/02/fox-shut-out-of-canada-because-of-a-law-against-lying-during-newscasts/

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1. Canada has a law prohibiting lying on broadcast news? Wow....

wouldn't that be nice here?

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southernyankeebelle (3,025 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

12. Fox News has managed to destroy democracy with out firing a shot.


And only self-serving censorship will save it!

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3. Fox news is no better than Goebbels propaganda machine

in Nazi Germany. They have done much harm by brainwashing to American citizens. 

And yet...

...the effort to silence FOX revolves on repeating this lie often enough.

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5. Fox News(in the US) wouldn't Survive such a High Standard

all they do is ****ing lie to Americans, pitting Americans up against each other so the 1% can get away with crime


So speaketh the well-spring of tolerance and ecumenicism that is DU.

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10. I hope this is the beginning of a trend.

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15. Does anyone care that that this is old and largely false information?

First, Sun News is not Fox. Its not owned or otherwise affiliated with News Corp. Its owned by Quebecor. It was dubbed "Fox News North" because it was believed (probably with good reason) that it wanted to create a Fox-style conservative news channel. But Fox wasn't shut out of Canada because Fox wasn't the one trying to get into Canada.

Second, Sun News was not "banned" from getting on the Canadian airwaves. Originally, it sought a type of license from the Canadian authorities that would have given it mandatory carriage rights on cable and satellite companies operating in Canada (just as certain other "basic" channels are given). The verdict from the Canadian authorities was that the channel wasn't unique enough to warrant that sort of categorization. So, ultimately, Sun News applied for and received a lower category license that allows it to broadcast but doesn't give it mandatory carriage rights. It launched in the Spring of 2011 and is being carried by some cable and satellite providers in Canada.

Of course there is more to the story. For example, there were reports that the Harper government had put pressure on the Canadian authorities to approve the original mandatory carriage license. There also were reprots that Quebecor officials were seen meeting with Roger Ailes. However, there seems to be no evidence that Fox ever had or planned to have an ownership or management stake in the network.

I'm not trying to defend Sun News, but there is no reason for DUers to be misled about this story.

You don't see conservatives howling for an end to Media Splatters, MoveOn.borg or PMSNBC.

Probably has something to do with the fact we keep appealing to freedom and liberty, rather than mere control. Our every political complaint centers on teh fact our liberties are being eroded.

They, on the other hand, wantprograms and freebies even if they must compel others to provide these things for them. In other words, they want slaves.

This is why they hate those who desire freedom.

Only with leftist can another man's freedom be equated as their detriment.

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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 04:09:53 PM »
I wonder how that "quarantine Fox News" website is coming along?

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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 04:21:08 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on January 12, 2012, 04:09:53 PM
I wonder how that "quarantine Fox News" website is coming along?



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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 04:34:54 PM »
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20. I doubt it

The recs just keep coming. A lot of people don't bother to read through a thread before reccing or replying.

Why bother. If it's in the OP, it must be true.

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23. No, and unfortunately, it is a pattern here at DU. Fire, Ready, Aim. (nt)

Better watch it Slim.......
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 04:44:16 PM »
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15. Does anyone care that that this is old and largely false information?

First, Sun News is not Fox. Its not owned or otherwise affiliated with News Corp. Its owned by Quebecor. It was dubbed "Fox News North" because it was believed (probably with good reason) that it wanted to create a Fox-style conservative news channel. But Fox wasn't shut out of Canada because Fox wasn't the one trying to get into Canada.

Second, Sun News was not "banned" from getting on the Canadian airwaves. Originally, it sought a type of license from the Canadian authorities that would have given it mandatory carriage rights on cable and satellite companies operating in Canada (just as certain other "basic" channels are given). The verdict from the Canadian authorities was that the channel wasn't unique enough to warrant that sort of categorization. So, ultimately, Sun News applied for and received a lower category license that allows it to broadcast but doesn't give it mandatory carriage rights. It launched in the Spring of 2011 and is being carried by some cable and satellite providers in Canada.

Of course there is more to the story. For example, there were reports that the Harper government had put pressure on the Canadian authorities to approve the original mandatory carriage license. There also were reprots that Quebecor officials were seen meeting with Roger Ailes. However, there seems to be no evidence that Fox ever had or planned to have an ownership or management stake in the network.

I'm not trying to defend Sun News, but there is no reason for DUers to be misled about this story.
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 04:55:43 PM »
Alert the media!!!

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16. thank you, Spazito

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I'd been about to go running off to check the on-screen program guide to see whether I should be jumping for joy!

We had FoxNews during its initial free preview -- which was supposed to be two months and somehow dragged on for months and months. I always wondered whether they actually got approval for that. I guess they finally managed to sign up enough people for the cable companies to afford it. Although I wouldn't be surprised if FoxNews pays the distributors to carry it.

Have you watched SunTV at all? Worse than one would expect from the source of the Sun papers even. No page 3 "girl", though. Their website is dreadful.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/

I think I watched 10 minutes of Ezra Levant once. There's someone who should stick to not trying to talk extemporaneously. I went and researched, on line, the story he was talking about: a lesbian couple insulted and assaulted in a comedy club by a comic and bar employees. Oddly, it wasn't at all the way he had described it ...

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Hailed as "Canada's no.1 defender of free speech," best-selling author, lawyer, blogger and general trouble-maker, Calgary's Ezra Levant is one of Canada's best-known conservative pundits. A veteran journalist, Ezra covered national politics, the Supreme Court and the Middle East for the National Post and founded the Western Standard magazine, the only Canadian media outlet to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. His best-selling books include Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights and Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands. His non-televised rants appear at ezralevant.com


Summarized as: right-wing provocateur.
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 10:38:30 PM »
As I looked at the bottom of my shoe, I saw the relevance of his story.
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2012, 04:16:33 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on January 12, 2012, 04:09:53 PM
I wonder how that "quarantine Fox News" website is coming along?



Last time I checked, no website.  Couldn't find it anywhere.

I DID find a "Quarantine Fox News" Facebook page.
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2012, 05:25:31 AM »
"Fake but Accurate News"....me luv it long time. :-)
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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2012, 09:46:18 AM »
Upthread at post#8, RZM calls out the bullshit, as well.  He's largely ignored.  This shows how easily you can spoonfeed these sheep anything at all. 

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Re: False story taps into DU's core fascism
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2012, 12:29:12 PM »
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20. I doubt it

The recs just keep coming. A lot of people don't bother to read through a thread before reccing or replying.

B-b-but how can that be? DU is the "reality-based community" of "well-informed people" who are "high-information voters". Why, there's a self-affirmation thread in GD nearly every day talking bout how much betterer and smarterer they is than everone else.

Dumb****s.

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