Posted on 03/03/2011 8:17:16 AM PST by Beave Meister
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."
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I get it too, but I think what he means is SunTV as he believes it is called ‘Fox News North’. Either way, SunTV is approved and should start airing mid April. Evey paragraph contains an outright lie.
His comments about Harper are also incorrect, there is no evidence that the PMO had anything to do with the CRTC (broadcasting act)requesting changes. That came from a bi-partisan committee which has been asking for the change (to reflect the constitution) for over 10 years.
Huff Po hasn’t allowed my replies, and I was nice LOL
So it seems that Kennedy is misrepresenting Canada at every turn...
And then some....
The left has lost the distinction between fact and opinion. In their own minds, their opinions must be true because they think them; all else is lies.
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