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Lucylastic -> Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 5:31:46 AM)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-will-not-be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html
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 Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators today announced they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/25/crtc-false-news.html
The CRTC has withdrawn a controversial proposal that would have given TV and radio stations more leeway to broadcast false or misleading news.


Im dancing a little jig right now. FUCK Murdoch and his slime, FUCK Harper and his desire to pass on lies n bullshit , ohhhh gleeeee is coursing thru me.
Oh happy days




MrRodgers -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 5:42:14 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-will-not-be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html
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 Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators today announced they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/02/25/crtc-false-news.html
The CRTC has withdrawn a controversial proposal that would have given TV and radio stations more leeway to broadcast false or misleading news.

Im dancing a little jig right now. FUCK Murdoch and his slime, FUCK Harper and his desire to pass on lies n bullshit , ohhhh gleeeee is coursing thru me.
Oh happy days

I am sure that is a good thing even though Fox as we all know is 'Fair & Balanced.' [sic] This world would be funny...if it wasn't so obviously headed for financial and likely political disaster.




Lucylastic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 5:48:37 AM)

You have to take your pleasures when you can Mr R:)
I just read Marinis thread on medicaid cuts, ... I was humungously upset and pissed until I read the one bit of good news out there so far today, for canadians anyway:)




Sanity -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 5:54:21 AM)


And your kindly government overseers allow you Arianna Huffington for now, to keep you thinking only the correct "liberal" thoughts on those on those long cold dark winter nights.

How fortunate you are, and what good kindly masters you have.



Lucylastic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 6:02:15 AM)

Your lips drip lies like poison.
Harper is the Prime Minister... He wanted it, he wanted to be able to lie.
he is my kindly government
if you knew anything you would not have made that ridiculously absurd comment
BTW oh smart intelligent one, I can get fox I can get drudge, I can get malkin
what has huffpost got to do with anything??
There is no move to deny anyone any access via the internet
I think you live in a total fantasy world or you are the most terrified and ignorant person in the US




Arpig -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 8:21:22 AM)

Actually, from what I read about it the other day, the proposal is actually over 10 years old, so it predates Harper.



Lucylastic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 8:38:42 AM)

"However, Von Finckenstein said the CRTC "never wanted to touch this thing" and had, in fact, dragged its feet for 10 years until "we ran out of stalling devices." He said the CRTC finally proposed the change this year "because we were ordered to do it."
from the cbc link in the OP
Looking for the CBC link on harpers pressure



Brain -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/1/2011 9:27:47 PM)

This is good news, now the problem is getting the conservative Harper government defeated and electing liberals or progressives who will improve the quality of life of Canadian citizens. God help our health care system if these conservatives ever get a majority government.



EternalHoH -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 10:28:33 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


And your kindly government overseers allow you Arianna Huffington for now, to keep you thinking only the correct "liberal" thoughts on those on those long cold dark winter nights.




I guess if huffpo ran a nightly TV news broadcast intended to look like the news broadcasts of the alphabet networks down here, then it, too, would be shut down up there. 

But they don't do a nightly newscast that has the look and feel of CBC News.

Stewart/Colbert is probably okay up there, too, as its a satirical comedy show, not an alphabet news broadcast.





Lucylastic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 10:39:40 AM)

we get Colbert and Stewart on the channel it belongs
The Comedy Network
:)



joether -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 10:42:54 AM)

Wouldn't it really suck for conservatives if we made the 28th Amendment along the lines that media can not lie? I'm sure Fox News, the GOP, and Tea Party would pour a huge amount of money into removing such a concept. Can't image why....



Lucylastic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 10:56:27 AM)

It will never happen
it seems too many people like lies with your news



TheHeretic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 6:44:54 PM)

And those who know what is best for you will remain in control of what is true. Oh happy day for Canada!



Arpig -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 7:35:56 PM)

No Rich, it just means that a news network up here can't just make shit up and broadcast it as "News". They have to actually have some sort of evidence of its veracity. We have no problem with right wing philosophy or viewpoint, nor would we with a news organization with a right-wing slant (two of our major newspaper chains are decidedly right-wing), but we do draw the line at lies and fabrication. We don't need anybody in power to tell us what is true...we just have this odd idea that the facts should back up what a journalist publishes. Time and events may prove those facts to have been erroneous, but that is the nature of the world...but when first presented, the story was backed up by the facts as they were known at the time.
Seems simple really, I cannot understand why many in the US has such a hard time grasping the concept.



Sanity -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 7:43:25 PM)


Its alright arpig, we understand your defensiveness. After all it has to be humiliating and embarrassing to the extreme to be thought of as so stupid naive and childish as a people that you need your nanny government to censor the things that you may see or hear.



Arpig -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 7:55:03 PM)

Nobody is censoring anything!
There was a proposal to allow news organizations to knowingly broadcast falsehoods. Surely that is not a desirable state of affairs to any but a totalitarian regime. A free press is allowed to make any report they want, as long as they have reason to believe it is true. If they know it isn't, then why on earth should they be allowed to lie to people by claiming it is?
Nobody is telling anybody what they can broadcast, you can broadcast any fucking thing you want, as long as you have good reason to believe it isn't false.



Sanity -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 8:00:30 PM)


Who picks which nanny will be your arbiter of truth, pray tell.

Your laws are already so bizarre regarding politically correct speech that you could get into serious trouble conversing about almost anything, it seems to me.



TheHeretic -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 8:01:42 PM)

As you may note from today's Supreme Court decision, Arpig, we do free speech differently down here. One government tries to do the best it can for the subjects, the other is restricted by the people, who have denied it certain powers.

I think our way is better, even on the days when it leaves a nasty taste.



Arpig -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 8:05:15 PM)

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Who picks which nanny will be your arbiter of truth, pray tell.
Noone...there is no arbiter of truth. A broadcaster must simply have facts to back up their story....you know that old saw of journalism school

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Your laws are already so bizarre regarding politically correct speech that you could get into serious trouble conversing about almost anything, it seems to me.
And you are obviously ignorant of our laws. We are free to speak our minds. True we have some hate speech laws (which I totally oppose), but they are actually quite narrow. As long as you do not actively foster hatred of any identifiable group you are ok. We have no laws regarding politically correct speech whatsoever. Various organizations (Universities and such) may have policies regarding such things (which I also oppose), but those are not laws.




Sanity -> RE: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All (3/2/2011 8:05:32 PM)

[image]http://www.foxnews.com/images/549536/0_61_320_sarah_palin_devil.jpg[/image]

I couldnt find any "FOX News is the devil" pics, this is the closest thing I could find.

I just find the whole situation in Canada amusing... its like a brainwashed cult, the whole damn country.



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