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Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada
Reader Supporting News ^ | 03/01/2011 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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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TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; foxnews; kennedy; liberals; lies; rfkjr
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Who are these liberals kidding...
1 posted on 03/03/2011 8:17:23 AM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Even Mao once called for a thousand schools of thought to contend.


2 posted on 03/03/2011 8:19:00 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Beave Meister

list the lies liberals:

?

didn’t think so


3 posted on 03/03/2011 8:19:31 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Carter 2.0 The Epic Fail Edition)
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To: Beave Meister

Obviously Canada is scared shitless of Fox News.


4 posted on 03/03/2011 8:21:13 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: All

Yeah, a bunch of politicians branded them as liars, so all taxpaying citizens can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing their government is protecting them from being lied to!

.... uh, wait a second....


5 posted on 03/03/2011 8:21:20 AM PST by Scarlett156 (FoxNews, Canada)
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To: Beave Meister

Fox News is broadcasted in Canada...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel

“Fox News Channel is currently offered by Access Communications, Bell TV, Cogeco, Eastlink, Manitoba Telecom Services, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and Telus TV. “


6 posted on 03/03/2011 8:22:23 AM PST by Michel12
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To: Beave Meister

And I take comfort from the fact that, for the first time in decades, there are no Kennedy family members in Congress.


7 posted on 03/03/2011 8:22:27 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Beave Meister

Another brain dead Kennedy clapping for Marxism.


8 posted on 03/03/2011 8:22:35 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Why are public employee unions attacking taxpayers?)
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To: Beave Meister
The gov’t defines what's a lie and what isn't, so what could possibly go wrong? /s
9 posted on 03/03/2011 8:22:57 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Beave Meister

eyep...shovel ready


10 posted on 03/03/2011 8:23:04 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Beave Meister

Only those truthful people at CNNBCBSMSNBCPBSNPR are allowed

Fox should sue them for a gajillion dollars and ask for specific examples of “lies”.


11 posted on 03/03/2011 8:23:10 AM PST by Mr. K (Job #1 is to DEFUND THE LEFT~!!!!)
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To: Beave Meister
Fascinating. The Washington State Supreme Court has held that it is not illegal for politicians to lie, either in their public statement to voters or in written materials used during campaigns.

The justification was amusing, but it came down to that politicians cannot be expected to tell voters the truth.

So If a reporter from Canada, crossed the boarder at Blaine and entered Washington State to interview say Patty (mom in tennis shoes) Murray, and was told a string of lies (perfectly legal) the Canadian reporter could not report that on the Canadian news.

Wow, laws are so fascinating!

12 posted on 03/03/2011 8:23:16 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Beave Meister

My guess is, cnn and msnbc are both carried in Canada.

RFKjr is such a pathetic little pos. LOL


13 posted on 03/03/2011 8:23:18 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Beave Meister

“to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news”

So there’s no news broadcast in Canada?

The test pattern is the only thing I’ve ever seen broadcast that has NO lying in it.


14 posted on 03/03/2011 8:23:57 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: Ev Reeman

“Obviously Canada is scared shitless of Fox News.”

As is the increasingly-frequently hysterical Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.


15 posted on 03/03/2011 8:24:33 AM PST by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: Beave Meister

Imagine a Kennedy opining on the practice of lying.


16 posted on 03/03/2011 8:24:41 AM PST by La Lydia
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a law that forbids lying on broadcast news

Do Canadians ever think it's odd that clips of politicians speaking have never been broadcast in their country?

17 posted on 03/03/2011 8:25:27 AM PST by Brain Mold
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To: Beave Meister

This from the coke-head scion of the traitorous Kennedy clan who wouldn’t know the truth of it jumped out his martini glass and bit him.


18 posted on 03/03/2011 8:25:31 AM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: Beave Meister

Like CBC doesn’t lie often?

CNN?


19 posted on 03/03/2011 8:25:48 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Beave Meister
If FOX NEWS is telling so many lies, why aren't the poor victims taking advantage of our slander and libel laws and inundating them with lawsuits?

Could it be that a lawsuit would bring about "discovery" wherein the "lies" might be provent truthful?

People who fight this hard against FOX NEWS have something they don't want aired, or lies they don't want exposed.

Otherwise, it seems to me, Canada and the obamabots would all be piling on with lawsuits.

After all, the lefts only hope of winning is to shutdown all the conservative outlets...otherwise, the truth prevails.
20 posted on 03/03/2011 8:25:48 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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