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Fox Shut Out of Canada Because of a Law Against Lying During Newscasts
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.â€
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F*cking Faux news cracks me up man. 
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You just had to remind me about how truly F'd up Rayguns was as POTUS.
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I find it absolutely hilarious that Reagan had to abolish the “Fairness Doctrine†in order for the RWN propaganda to be heard.
Being able to lie has set the conservative party FREE!! 
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"Opposing views must not be heard!  "
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Koneg posted:
"Opposing views must not be heard! "
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JFC you are flat out dumb as a post.
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Koneg posted:
"Opposing views must not be heard! "
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We've had a conservative government since 2006, but nice try.
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Teh Libruls, Champeens of enlightenment, democracy and justice posted:
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This post has been seized by the US Librul and Enlightenment Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations, Office of the Speshul Non-Specific-Genedered Agent in Charge in accordance with a warrant obtained with the assistance of the US Attorney's Office for the District of Happyville, and issued pursuant to 18 USC 981 and 1955(d) by the US District Court of Speshulness.
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Koneg posted:
"Opposing views must not be heard! "
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On what planet is a lie a view?
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Bless your heart Koneg, you can post as much as you want. I know it will be an up hill battle for you, but keep at it and someday you may be able to change your lying ways.
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Seriously, do conservatives think Fox news is honest? That conservative radio is honest? ..or, maybe it's just that these platforms are just bending the truth a little bit?
I've noticed a lack of conservative feed back in this thread.
Before Reagan got rid of the "Fairness Doctrine" I think the media was a little biased. But they tried to be fair and balanced. Things on Fox News and conservative radio aren't even trying to be fair and balanced hell Fox News motto of being "Fair and Balanced" is far from the truth. Are conservatives really that blind to the manipulation that is being perpetrated on them??
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tenkly posted:
Koneg posted:
"Opposing views must not be heard! "
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We've had a conservative government since 2006, but nice try.
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Koneg posted:
"Opposing views must not be heard! "
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The irony of this in relation to the fairness doctrine is somewhat amusing.
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Yeah i remember when people like Dan Rather were honest people.......err wait. 
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Libs celebrating censorship, anyone surprised?
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Meanwhile, in the good, old U.S. of A, the NYT asks the question...
I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts†that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.
In other words, should we let politicians lie regularly and not say anything about it. Unfortunately, in journalism today, the answer seems to be..well, certainly.
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Libs lie all the time and yet the main stream media doesnt say a word....
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tenkly posted:
tenkly posted:
Koneg posted:
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We've had a conservative government since 2006, but nice try.
For the third time, libs had nothing to do with this you retards.
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ARGLE BARGLE LIBS@!
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Yeah i remember when people like Dan Rather were honest people.......err wait.
Have you noticed Dan Rather isn't on the news anymore? Where as Glenn Beck gets his own TV network. You can't see the disjoint from reality you are inflicted with?
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Yukishiro1 posted:
The irony of this in relation to the fairness doctrine is somewhat amusing.
The more you two post about the Fairness Doctrine the more convinced I am that neither one of you has Clue #1.
Hint: Republicans didn't need to get rid of the fairness doctrine so they could take over all of talk radio - because there was no such thing as "talk radio" before the fairness doctrine was abolished. The very idea is laughable.
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That is a purely political move on the part of the regulators who I have to assume answer to parliament. All news is inherently biased, if you think you are getting just truth or raw facts from the current media establishment then the only thing I can say to that is that you can't fix stupid. Much less the profoundly stupid.
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if only politicians had the same law applying to themselves
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Hint: Republicans didn't need to get rid of the fairness doctrine so they could take over all of talk radio - because there was no such thing as "talk radio" before the fairness doctrine was abolished. The very idea is laughable.
Political talk radio has been around since radio was started. It certainly exploded after the fairness doctrine was repealed, but it's been around as long as radio has.
Dumbass.
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Political talk radio has been around since radio was started. It certainly exploded after the fairness doctrine was repealed, but it's been around as long as radio has.
Really? That's odd, since the Fairness Doctrine prevented anyone from articulating any kind of political opinions without opening themselves up to an invasion of people demanding equal time to voice opposing views - and they'd have to let them do just that.
If there were political opinion shows on radio during the time of the Fairness Doctrine then the challenge you face should be trivial: Name one.
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Are you seriously this stupid?
I JUST posted a picture of Father Coughlin - who was the Glen Beck of the 1930's.
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Are you seriously this stupid?
I JUST posted a picture of Father Coughlin - who was the Glen Beck of the 1930's.
Challenge... Failed. As a reminder, the Fairness Doctrine didn't exist when he was on the air.
Would you like to play again? (Y/n)
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Are you seriously this stupid?
I JUST posted a picture of Father Coughlin - who was the Glen Beck of the 1930's.
Challenge... Failed. As a reminder, the Fairness Doctrine didn't exist when he was on the air.
Would you like to play again? (Y/n)
Here you go:
Joe Pyne, John Nebel, Jean Shepherd, and Jerry Williams (WMEX-Boston) were among the first to explore the medium in the 1950s.
Two radio stations—KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles—adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so. KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format. KTKK, 630 in Salt Lake City, then known as KSXX, adopted a full time talk schedule in 1965 and has claimed to have been the third station in the country to have done so. KSXX started with all local talent, and KTKK today has a larger portion of its schedule featuring local talent than most other stations that run a full schedule of talk.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, as many listeners abandoned AM music formats for the high fidelity sound of the FM radio dial, the Talk Radio format began to catch on in more large cities. Former music stations such as KLIF, Dallas, Texas), WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), WHAS (Louisville, Kentucky), WHAM (Rochester, New York), WLS (Chicago, Illinois), KFI (Los Angeles, California), WRKO (Boston, Massachusetts), WKBW (Buffalo, New York), and WABC (New York, New York) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band.
There's a at least dozen examples, all between 1949 - 1980.
Rush Limbaugh was also doing a political talk show before the Fairness Doctrine was repealed.
Which part of 'it's been around the entire time radio has' is so hard to grasp?
Would you like to continue or are we slinking back to our hole now?
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Teh Libruls, Champeens of enlightenment, democracy and justice posted:
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Grymlo posted:
Yeah i remember when people like Dan Rather were honest people.......err wait.
Have you noticed Dan Rather isn't on the news anymore? Where as Glenn Beck gets his own TV network. You can't see the disjoint from reality you are inflicted with?
Didnt realize he was still on fox news..
Do you understand the difference between news and entertainment? If you think Beck was news than the reality you live in must be hard to deal with.
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If he is entertainment, why isn't he on the Fox Entertainment channel?
Fox isn't the only one to do this, but when you put something on a news channel that looks like news.....well, if it walks like a duck.
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Koneg posted:
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Political talk radio has been around since radio was started. It certainly exploded after the fairness doctrine was repealed, but it's been around as long as radio has.
Really? That's odd, since the Fairness Doctrine prevented anyone from articulating any kind of political opinions without opening themselves up to an invasion of people demanding equal time to voice opposing views - and they'd have to let them do just that.
If there were political opinion shows on radio during the time of the Fairness Doctrine then the challenge you face should be trivial: Name one.
Um
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