How are new posters finding a two-month old thread? :/

It's like they "dumpster dive" for old articles they can take a poke at - especially if concerns Faux Noise. Saw it on my "update" page, just had to run over and tell the truth about another right wing propaganda tool. Biggest TOOL of all - FOX News.

Internet patterns fascinate me.

Yeh, I figure they meet every Friday night to plot "their patterns" - who would ever figure THAT out. Then they show up here to badger and snark. Or show up over night.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Kenny, who are these people who are still commenting on this two-month-old thread and have never commented anywhere else on Current? How weird!

I know, I thought so too!

Dontcha know? Trolls love dumpster diving.

LOL, good one!

Hey, I guess you can't read. Did you notice the word *licensee* in my comment? Of course not.

The CRTC approved brodcasting Fox News in 2004. You guys really need to do some fact checking before you blindly go along with this stuff like sheep.

It's only available in Canada as a Pay TV service.
Actually ordered it once, so I could phone up the cable company and cancel it.

Pandering to Israel like Adelson and Bloomberg's Wall Street War pig puppet Mitt-O-maton , makes me puke. This joker is a mormon cult action figure programmed by Karl RovRove Inc. to finish off implementing the Bush- Cheney protocols for the NWO global mafia take over. I might be moving to Canada.

I like to stay hopeful that the American people will wake up from the Fox News propaganda and find out who the real enemy of the United States is.

Fear not, many of us already know the Fox News is BS.

I see you've got a lot of posts here. You are confusing "broadcasting" rights with "airing" rights.

You must understand that in the U.S., there is little practical difference between broadcasting and airing. Other countries hold the broadcaster of a "news" channel to a higher standard than just a program being aired.

Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news."

Fox News could not meet this threshold, therefore it was denied a license to broadcast.

Stephen Harper, the conservative PM, tried to negate this law, but he was overridden by the Parliament.

Fox News is still not allowed to broadcast in Canada, although it is aired.

I have no axe to grind here...just informing you of how it is with Canadian law.

You can post links to blogs written by dimwits all you want. It still doesn't negate the FACTS. And the facts are, Fox News is broadcast on Canadian television. Period. Why don't you contact the cable providers in Canada and tell THEM they are broadcasting a network that offends you and see how far you get.

Google up a brain? There ya go, resorting to personal attacks because you can't admit this whole argument is rubbish. I thought you were just misinformed, but you really are spreading lies, the very thing you are accusing Fox News of being banned over. Put the kool-aid down and do a little googling yourself so you can post factual information instead of garbage.

AND FOX NEWS DOES NOT BROADCAST IN CANADA, it's against the Law to lie and call yourself NEWS~

2004 article? Really...

I sympathize with your sentiment. I used to say the same types of things, however my wife rightly pointed out that if I move, "they" win... I'm not going to let that happen. I'll stay and fight.

It could be a hell of a lot worse like a couple of trillion dollars spent on an illegal war in Iraq predicated on LIES by the Criminal Bush administration, not too mention that was tax dollars and the incredible loss of life on both sides. But I guess when FASCIST's in America do it, it's OK with you.

Ya, but the here and now is how Canada's State Controlled Media never lies, well I guess they really didn't lie they just deemed that to answer the question was not in the best interest of the State

I really think your grasping at lose straws on this one, kind of comparing apples and privately owned media outlets that also made billions with their arms manufacturing links in an intertwined corporate spider web! Working with the Bush crime family here in America it was a win, win, don't you think? At least for our corporate overlords, not so much for the American Tax payer!

You forgot to mention that Canada has really long, cold winters.

Oh ... and poutine sucks, too. Be sure to mention that.

What is it with you conservatives and your foolishness? No broadcaster can divulge how much they pay for Olympic broadcasting rights until the event is over under International Olympic Committee rules.

The C.B.C. deal cost them a reported $75 to $85 million dollars according to one source. N.B.C. paid 1.2 billion for the 2012 Olympics. Besides, it isn't just the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The rights to broadcast the Olympics in Canada belongs to the Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, not the C.B.C.
That is why they paid so little for their share.

Stunningly uninformed aren’t you?

Following I.O.C. rules is not being dishonest or privileged. Try again Conservative.

Well then get busy sueing the Canadian media that is posting this lie then....

Saying the C.B.C. wouldn't divulge the amount they paid for the rights to broadcast the Olympics isn't a lie Crabby. They can't divulge the amount of money they paid for the broadcasting rights until the event is over.

I would think you got this story from a conservative leaning publication. We are having trouble with these conservative media outlets and the way they push the envelope of honesty. They sure would like to outright lie to us like your conservatives do though.

Crabby, do you not realize that the only reason you are claiming the state runs the media here is because you need it to be that way even though it's not true. You are wilfully ignoring the fact that the government has no control over broadcasting laws. You are wilfully ignoring the fact that someone other than the government told them they could not change the broadcasting laws here.

You are doing this because you have a conservative mind and you are creating this idea that Canadian media is state run to satisfy your argument. You are simply ignoring the facts to create an argument that does not exist. That’s conservatism.

You know full well that the media here is not state run by the government or you would have addressed the contradiction of the conservative majority government losing their bid to get the honesty in the media laws changed. If the media is state run, who told them they couldn’t change the law?

I think we need to pitch in a get crabby, a word book or dictionary. He can't spell the word "suing."

you misspelled "suing."

Y use y instead of Y ?

:)

I didn't know that word book and dictionary were bad words. (LOL). somebody tried to flag my comment.

I think the least of Crabby's worries is his spelling. He might want to consider his need to ignore facts to satisfy his conservatism and what that means.

Perhaps "misspelt" or maybe misspelled ??

I know how to capitalized.

Oh sorry, I forgot I was typing too fast. (LOL)

I don't think they know what that word means.

There is no such word as "misspelt."

You know how to "capitalized." Now you are shooting yourself in the fooot. Ha! In the fooot. Now that's funny right there.

I was being funny jim!! (LOL).

Well then it woyked because I certainly chuckled about it.

The word is 'suing', CONservative, and you're lucky Canada hasn't sued you for the pollution that comes from your poisoning of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes.

Don't you have some lies to spread about your own country?

When they realise their argument is moot they go for the 'nuke-u-lure' option. They try, but their inferior education limits their ability to debate. The Faux 'News' teaches them that you have to repeatedly scream lies, hoping that if they say it enough their lies will become true to their uneducated population.

Great post, Thanks Kenny

Thanks!

Sorry but on this one he's okay. Americans "modernized" the spelling, but it's a long standing British spelling. Here it is from none other than the venerable "Bebe":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8704838.stm

What? Outrageous, the Queens Jubilee! CBC needs to get to the bottom of this scandal!

Dang, ur up early today, or u just gettin off ?

I love the State Controlled Media, how about you Kenny ?

Just got off work, but I think CBC is doing a fine job. And I must admit drumming up lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction by privately operated News Networks kind of offsets this story by a thousand times or worse!

They fill a niche, but to say that government funding doesn't influence programing and that "one's" media source is pure like the snow is unrealistic.

The war was on another thread I believe.

If government funding for the C.B.C. influenced how they report the news, wouldn't they have to change their tune every time a new government took office? Now that the conservatives have a majority government, wouldn't the C.B.C. be influenced by the right? That is until the liberals took office again.

You can't seem to grasp the idea that our government, no matter who is in power, has no influence over the media. Can you explain to us why, if the media is controlled by the government, the conservatives couldn't get the honesty in media laws changed? If our media is run by the government, who stopped them?

See above examples of non disclosure and privilege.

See above where CANADIAN MEDIA CAN'T LIE BY LAW BUT CONSERVATIVES WANT TO!!!

Just like their lying conservative counterparts in the United States.

You have been poring over the internet for a full day now, trying to find an example of Canadian media dishonesty and this is the best you can do? Canadian media isn't left wing. Forced honesty makes them seem that way.

You still have not addressed the fact that our majority conservative government couldn't get the media laws changed while claiming at the same time that our media is controlled by the government. Hell Crabby you won't even admit the contradiction. That's how the conservative mind works. If facts contradict your beliefs, don’t change your beliefs, ignore the facts.

If the media is controlled by the government, and the government is conservative, how could the media here be considered left wing?

Did you give any consideration to who foots the bill when Royalty visits the United States, or is this just an attempt to find fault with Canada's honesty laws? That's what is really bothering you isn't it? Honesty.

And Joe Arpaio thinks he can control the media.
http://bit.ly/PFnfNh

Spot on jim, they know they are just acting STUPID again!

Do you think for one second that the conservatives that communicate here won't ignore this evidence? I have my doubts they will even look at what the C.R.T.C. actually did.

They are ignoring the fact that our Conservative Party of Canada could not get the law changed and claim that means the media is controlled by the government. It’s not that they don’t see the contradiction of their argument; it’s that they just don’t care what the facts are.

Could you imagine what their comments would have been if it was the liberals in Canada that tried to get the honesty laws changed? They would have been screaming from the roof tops that it was all the evidence anybody could ever need to prove that liberals lie, and they know it. I don’t for one second think they don’t know the conservative media and the Republicans lie about everything, they just don’t care. If they admitted that the Republicans are the liars that they know they are, they would have to change their minds about their beliefs, and change goes against everything conservatism stands for.

Absolutely spot on Jim, in fact I just posted a new post about the Liars!

Yes we do have conservative media here. As I said before the law does not ban conservative media outlets, it bans lying. This is why a media outlet in Canada is of no use to Rupert Murdoch or any other media mogul who wants to lie for the right like American conservative leadership lies to the American public.

The difference is we do not have American style media because we have honesty in media laws. The whole point of this story is our media can not lie to us so American style conservatism can’t take hold here. The point is that when a countries media can lie to the public, you end with American conservatism and the most uninformed electorate in the free world.

This story is also a good window into today’s American conservatives and how much they detest honesty. The conservatives that communicate here are absolutely furious that our media can not lie to us. They are actually saying that lying for conservatives is a freedom that they cherish.

Thanks .The radical right in America does have a stranglehold on the media.This power of capital which constricts the flow of real facts and hides the ulteripr motives of the vcorporate royalty, which is absolute control of government. This is treason, not freedom and despotism, not democracy. The maze of lies is so convoluted and deceptive that most Americans thinl we have a liberally biased media, free press and free enterprise. we habe none of these. We have an Orwellian Dystopian Plutocracy and minority rule by ruthless multi national monopolies dedicated to self enrichment at any cost.

somebody call the fashion police. If he is going to wear pink; it should be salmon pink. (LOL)

He was making a comment about "pinkos" with his suit.

I registered with this blog just so I could like your comment.
Republicans (I won't even say conservatives because a lot of them are for government interference in women's vaginas) Republicans say Liberal like it is a curse word. They talk about killing us. They pretend they are joking but they aren't.
Another interesting trick that Fox News does is the lawyerly trick of building a case. Lawyers are prosecuting an alleged criminal when they do this. Fox News isn't just giving you facts, or even exaggerations and lies. They are trying to make people outraged, offended and violent. That's why when Obama gets more people medical coverage, they say he "STOLE 713 MILLION Dollars from Medicare! He is killing your grandma, He is a socialist/communist/fascist/child killer/racist/muslim/terrorist who will bring back death panels!"
For example,Fox News "Obamacare will put PapaJohn's pizza out of business!"
Reality "Obamacare will make your PapaJohn's pizza cost you 14 cents more."

All the fairness doctrine did was force a single enity to broadcast the "lies" of everyone, so on a single topic we would need the left, right, libertarian, american socialist/communist, green, anarchist, religous orgs and the atheist. Can you see where programing could become cumbersome, and being such, the media outlets declining to cover any controversial topics due time constraints ?

Saw this when I did a quick search of the topic. Evidently the gov does not like it when a news organization doesn't support it. That's ok, Barry O and his ilk don't like it either. The difference is that we have freedom here and the Canadians evidently do not.
Another kenny lie. Marked down.

In reading this ... it sounded like this "code of conduct" lasted a whole month before it was overturned.

"This new code of conduct came into force April 2 and replaced the old rules that dated from November 2006."

Lacroix removed the requirement in May.

I'm glad it was removed. Good on the journalists for objecting.

So, really, since this was overturned four months ago after being in effect for a single month, this is a non-story at this point. And a fairly lame attempt at deflection.

The policy no longer exists ... and it existed for a month.