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Canadians shouldn't be denied Fox News (A pro-Fox Canadian!)
The Globe and Mail ^
| Wednesday, April 28 2004
| Rod Love
Posted on 04/28/2004 11:54:33 AM PDT by RegT
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This is a good sign that I am not the only Canadian driven up the wall by Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown, and co. on CNN and Chris "softball" Matthews on MSNBC. If the gov't persists in censoring FOX, I will have to go to gray-market satellite, something I have been reluctant to do.
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posted on
04/28/2004 11:54:33 AM PDT
by
RegT
To: RegT
Social engineering, not free speech, is alive and well in Paul Martin's Timid New World. A BTT for a great line.
To: RegT
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posted on
04/28/2004 11:59:23 AM PDT
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: RegT
Remember that movie "Escape from New York"? Manhattan Island had become a prison run by the inmates. Nobody went in. Nobody could get out.
NYC was a great setting for that particular concept in a dramatic presentation.
In reality it's been Canada that turned into a prison ~ one of thoughts. None are created, none are imported.
You guys are all supposed to be deliriously happy over this state of affairs.
(PS, I'd have gotten the satellite connection long ago, and some guns too! You're gonna' need both, particularly when we 'Muricans have to start giving you secret instructions on escape routes South ~ kind of a reverse "Underground Railroad")
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:03:44 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: RegT
"If the gov't persists in censoring FOX, I will have to go to gray-market satellite, something I have been reluctant to do."
I'm sorry but I don't understand the term "gray-market" satellite? Do they even restrict what you can receive by satellite? Maybe, you are just indicating that you don't want the hassle of satellite reception which I can understand if you use cable INTERNET access as well a TV.
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:07:18 PM PDT
by
WHBates
To: Allan
Ping.
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:09:17 PM PDT
by
Mitchell
To: WHBates
You see, for people who want FOX news, like myself and others, the only way to get it is by buying a satellite basic package and than going out and getting a "cracked" card which enables you to view all 800000 channels, including FOX...So the CRTC really knows how to make money, they allow PORN but not FOX...All I have to say is:
Screw all the Leftist/Socialists/Appeasers; it is because of them that there is a WAR:
WAR solves/solved ALL conflicts, Appeasement only brings WAR.
People need to understand this
NO MORE Appeasement !
HO HO HEY HEY Appeasement HAS GO !
I had to get that in!!!!!!
To: RegT
Two things here:
...U.S.-based Fox News wants to broadcast its 24-hour news channel in Canada, the CRTC turned them down, The Globe and Mail's television columnist John Doyle applauded the CRTC decision...
The Liberals Little Red Book:
Rule 1: "Dissent must be crushed".
I have to say that if a Canadian News network was broadcasted here in America (and one may be, I don't wander up to the high channels too often) I'd have absolutely zero interest in watching it. It would be news from a Canadian perspective, and being an American, what would I care about that? Why would they want FOX News?
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
LOL, glad I could give you the chance to do so.
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:18:01 PM PDT
by
WHBates
To: RegT
I called the CRTC only today and asked if FOx News was coming to Canada and was told they had applied a year ago but something was wrong with the application and it had to go back. Now they say the application review and comments, etc., can take up to a year. God, if you got a spare lightning bolt, you know where to direct it, don't you? Barf alert, nothing! This one should come with a "going off at both ends" alert.
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
vandykelastone
(I'm so glad Goober Pyle is the Governor of New Mexico, aren't you?)
To: RegT; Mitchell
That, by any other name, is censorship --
a new Canadian value. I disagree with this sentence in an otherwise sensible article.
Censorship has long been a cherished Canadian value.
Canadians are the world's most obedient people
and have a deep need to be told by their masters
what to think and what to do.
Ultimately they do not need censorship imposed upon them
they willingly and joyfully censor themselves.
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posted on
04/28/2004 12:34:46 PM PDT
by
Allan
To: Allan
Speak for yourself. Sorry, was that an independent thought?
To: RegT; Timesink; *CCRM; governsleastgovernsbest; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; ...
Media Shenanigans ping - The Canadian Media Left Doesn't Even Pretend To Be ObjectiveO'Really had a vile female Canadian columnist on last night. She was so left that she made the Merkun alphabet fraudworks look "objective".
On, Off, or grab it for a Media Shenanigans/Schadenfreude/PNMCH ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~anamusedspectator/
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posted on
04/28/2004 1:20:21 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Kristen Breitweiser didn't want to learn how to land the 9/11 Commission; she only wanted to steer)
To: quidnunc
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posted on
04/28/2004 1:23:33 PM PDT
by
-YYZ-
To: WHBates
Grey market because the US sattelite networks do not knowingly sell their equipment or services to Canadians, as they don't have the broadcast rights to do so. So the equipment can be bought in Canada with a "cracked" card, or with a US billing address.
At this point it would more correct to say "black market" as it is now actually illegal to own and operate the US dishes in Canada, although they are not actually prosecuting individuals. They know what kind of stink it would raise if they did.
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posted on
04/28/2004 1:29:08 PM PDT
by
-YYZ-
To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
That is typical, allow Porn but not a balanced look at world news. Make sense? No... Make me sick? Yes... It is pure and simple, they are scared for the Canadian public to learn the truth...
To: RegT
There was a Canadian columnist on O'R Factor last eve and she was just hideous - condescening, smirking, sudden head movements and eye bulges, the works. No way she could have won any converts after that performance!
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posted on
04/28/2004 3:49:56 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: hardknocks
Said forYourChildrenVote4Bush,
"That is typical, allow Porn but not a balanced look at world news. Make sense? No... Make me sick? Yes... It is pure and simple, they are scared for the Canadian public to learn the truth..."
Gimme a break! Nobody ever accused Fox News of being balanced. And porn? Well, sorry if late-night viewing for adults when your kids should be in bed offends your sense of decency. Funny how someone can be shown as having their brains blown-out on broadcast television during primetime in the States. But God forbid that a flash-frame of a nipple makes it to air.
As for worrying that the Canadian public will learn the truth, might I ask whose truth? Rupert Murdoch's? Maybe you could use a little balance in your life
To: HitmanNY
Does she have a name? Or is she to remain a stereortype?
To: RegT
The Russians use to block the truth from getting to their citizens. Canadian socialism is not far behind.
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posted on
04/28/2004 6:03:58 PM PDT
by
cynicom
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