Sheesh. First they unban Fox News Channel (after, of course, first approving al-Jazeera and carefully considering applying the same stringent safeguards imposed on al-Jazeera to Fox News as well—*seriously!—see below); and now this. It’s almost like a free country or something.
CRTC to mull choice in cable TV viewing
Picking What You Want
Paul Vieira, Financial Post
Published: Friday, July 06, 2007OTTAWA – Canadian cable subscribers could be on the verge of being able to pick and choose whatever channels they want for their TV-viewing package under rule changes being contemplated by the CRTC.
If so, it could mark the end of a regulatory regime that saddles Canadian cable customers with channels they never wanted in the first place…
But I’ll bet you a thousand dollars that by law, as it has been established by liberals in Canadian LAW, cable and satellite distributors will still be forced, by law (did I mention law?) —just like in North Korea and China and Iran— to make the leftist state-run CBC and its multitudinous Newsworld and related liberal-leftist indoctrination channels available to Canadians, whether we want (we don’t) or not (not) just as it is now in law.
From * above: here’s the actual passage from the 8000-page CRTC decision documentation regarding unbanning Fox News Channel:
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38. Some interveners suggested that BDUs wishing to distribute Fox News should be subject to the same condition of licence applicable to those that wish to distribute Al Jazeera. The Commission considers that there is nothing on the record of this proceeding that would lead it to conclude that such treatment is necessary in the case of Fox News. Specifically, none of the reasons cited by interveners for such an approach give the Commission sufficient cause for concern that there would be abusive comment or abusive pictorial representation in the programming broadcast by Fox News that, when taken in context, tends to or is likely to expose an individual or group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability. Accordingly, the Commission will not impose any requirement on BDUs for the distribution of Fox News other than those that generally apply with respect to the carriage of non-Canadian services that are included on the digital lists.
[… ad infinitum]
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