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By BR | 24.07.2012 | 15:27 ET in Europe
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.
They would have to change the law to let FOX news be broadcast. Sounds like a good law. Hey Congress – here is a law you can pass!
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.
We do need better news. Too bad it is legal to lie in the USA.
Harper’s attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television are a stark admission that right-wing political ideology can only dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a political party or broadcast network that makes itself the tool of corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular with the public. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News’ notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin’s protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided.
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Grateful fred
August 1, 2012 at 08:52
Ummm…Fox News is broadcasted in Canada, and has been for years. Furthermore…they get lied to by their media just as much as anybody else in the free world.
Bop
November 14, 2012 at 00:52
Actually, they banned a new Fox network that would broadcast Canadian news (or right winged lies). It had to be called an “entertainment network” and currently only broadcasts in Ontario.
99ways2die (@PresidontNObama)
December 14, 2012 at 13:15
Who told you that Bop? MSNBC? Gotta be cause everyone knows their soooOOoooo honest. (Place puke icon here)
MSNBC, CBS, PBS, NBC, CNN, Etc etc… <– what do they all have in common? They all except government money from Democrats and allow the government to audit their material for content. so the government is allowed to breach freedom of press tell them what they can and can't report. <– truth not heard from FOX NEWS.
FOX NEWS… <- The only newcast now accepting government pay and the government can not edit their content. But the government can't shut them down either and guess what, if they where lying they would be able to. Thats how America works and thats why Obama don't like them or our constitution.