Post by danceswithdogs on Oct 21, 2012 14:53:17 GMT -5
The Left will do just about anything to shut out opposing opinions,views,beliefs and FACTS. Snopes has a post that debunks an ugly rumor that the Left has put out there. How many people believe the rumor and don't bother to fact check it? How idiotic and disingenuous is it for those people to even try to pull this off? To me it is further proof that FOXNEWS has FACTS that scare the shit out of the Left.
This is a copy/paste from snopes. com website:
Canadian Fox
Claim: The Fox News television channel has been banned in Canada.
FALSE
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, October 2012]
Is it true that Fox News Network is not allowed in Canada?
I've heard that because the network is not factual, the network is not allowed on Canadian TV.
Origins: Since at least 2011, rumors have circulated claiming the Fox News television channel has been banned in Canada due to its running afoul of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) prohibitions which make it "illegal to broadcast lies and label it news." One prominent example of this rumor states, for example, that:
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.
It is true various sections of CRTC regulations prohibit the broadcasting of "false or misleading news" by radio and television licensees, and that in 2011 the CRTC
declined to narrow those regulations to apply only to "news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public."
However, it is not true such regulations (which apply only to Canadian broadcasters using Canadian airwaves) have kept the Fox News Channel from gaining entry into Canada, or that they were invoked to boot Fox News out of that country after the channel was established there. The CRTC approved an application to bring the Fox News Channel to Canadian digital television line-ups back in November 2004, and that channel is now carried by dozens of different digital providers throughout Canada.
Last updated: 18 October 2012
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This is a copy/paste from snopes. com website:
Canadian Fox
Claim: The Fox News television channel has been banned in Canada.
FALSE
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, October 2012]
Is it true that Fox News Network is not allowed in Canada?
I've heard that because the network is not factual, the network is not allowed on Canadian TV.
Origins: Since at least 2011, rumors have circulated claiming the Fox News television channel has been banned in Canada due to its running afoul of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) prohibitions which make it "illegal to broadcast lies and label it news." One prominent example of this rumor states, for example, that:
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.
It is true various sections of CRTC regulations prohibit the broadcasting of "false or misleading news" by radio and television licensees, and that in 2011 the CRTC
declined to narrow those regulations to apply only to "news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public."
However, it is not true such regulations (which apply only to Canadian broadcasters using Canadian airwaves) have kept the Fox News Channel from gaining entry into Canada, or that they were invoked to boot Fox News out of that country after the channel was established there. The CRTC approved an application to bring the Fox News Channel to Canadian digital television line-ups back in November 2004, and that channel is now carried by dozens of different digital providers throughout Canada.
Last updated: 18 October 2012
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2012 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson.
This material may not be reproduced without permission.
snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.
Read more at www.snopes.com/politics/business/foxcanada.asp#c0iutCiF73aYWR7B.99