CRTC Considers Banning Fox News in Canada

[Turkeytop]

CRTC considering banning Fox News from Canadian cable packages


The CRTC has opened a public consultation on a complaint from an LGBTQ rights group asking the broadcast regulator to ban Fox News from cable packages in Canada.


interested parties and the public can submit their comments through the CRTC website until June 2.

Egale Canada first said in April it would file an application asking the CRTC to ban Fox News over “false and horrifying claims” made by host Tucker Carlson regarding transgender individuals.

The group published an open letter following a March appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. The group said the Fox News “coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities, particularly those who are Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN).”

The group said Carlson made false claims about those communities, including “painting them as violent and dangerous.” The segment aimed to provoke resentment and violence against 2STNBGN people through false claims and “malicious misinformation,” Egale Canada executive director Helen Kennedy said in the open letter.

“During the segment, Carlson made the inflammatory and false claim that trans people are ‘targeting’ Christians. To position trans people in existential opposition to Christianity is an incitement of violence

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ ... dian-cable

[Ben Zonia]

Ha! What's the point? The Network is quickly tanking in the ratings and may soon go out of business, dramatic decreases since Tucker Carlson went off. What is it they say? Closing the barn door after the prize horse escapes?

When I saw tis thread, I thought it was from the Babylon Bee.

[audiophile]

Your government doesn't respect freedom of the press.

Plus the government funded CBC funded doesn't like the competition.

Great people, lousy government.

PS If Tucker need factual content I could given him a H*** lead.

[Turkeytop]

Your government doesn't respect freedom of the press.

Liberal. What more can I say, without insulting your next of kin?

[rugratsonline]

Your government doesn't respect freedom of the press.

The CRTC holds Canada's radio and TV stations to higher standards, and takes all complaints seriously. Also, in addition to terrestrial radio and TV, all cable and satellite channels must be licensed as well. That includes Fox News.

As for the actual "press", Canada does have Freedom of the Press. The only thing they censor are court cases.

Plus the government funded CBC funded doesn't like the competition.

What about CTV? Global? Citytv? And if you want to include French channels, TVA?

For a time, the Sun newspaper chain had a conservative news channel, Sun News Network. They lasted only four years (2011 to 2015), because no one was watching them, and not all systems were carrying them. They tried appealing to the CRTC to upgrade its license to "Category 1", which would guarantee mandatory carriage -- the CRTC refused to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_News_Network

[Turkeytop]

Fox Newss and CBC would not be competing for the same audience.

If Fox News goes away, their viewers won't suddenly start watching CBC They'll get their conspirscy theories somewhere else.

[rugratsonline]

If Fox News goes away, their viewers won't suddenly start watching CBC They'll get their conspirscy theories somewhere else.

They'll always get them online through places like YouTube, or any other services available only through streaming or the internet.

Remember when OAN was ditched last year by DirecTV? Many of its fans cried bloody murder, not knowing that it's still available online.

In the context of Canada, when the CRTC banned RT from cable and satellite following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, right wingers declared that the CRTC went too far with censorship -- despite the fact that they can still watch it online through RT themselves.

[audiophile]

Your government doesn't respect freedom of the press.

The CRTC holds Canada's radio and TV stations to higher standards, and takes all complaints seriously. Also, in addition to terrestrial radio and TV, all cable and satellite channels must be licensed as well. That includes Fox News.

I don't know about that. Many times when a host broke a CRTC rule they made them apologize on-air as a "punishment". CRTC sounds like China, as everyone is under government supervision. Plus CRTC must be living under rock because they aren't blocking the internet.

When CKLW 93.9 changed format to More 94, the CRTC stopped them said rock and roll belongs on the AM, and beautiful music belongs of the FM! What morons and lot Canadian lost their jobs too. Do you really want government to have that much power?

I have seen London ON over-the-air-TV-station broadcast porn, so I don't see how they have a leg to stand on when it comes to Fox, because it appears the standards are only against certain things that some people find offensive.

As for the actual "press", Canada does have Freedom of the Press. The only thing they censor are court cases.

Oh but you can fined for quoting the Torah, Koran and the Bible, and that is not freedom. How long before they ban saying something against the government as "disinformation". Slippery slope.

[Ben Zonia]

I have plenty of ancestors from Canada who migrated there from both the UK and France first, and probably a lot of distant cousins who still live there. It USED to be a free country that modeled itself after the USA. Now Canada is not free, and the US seems to be on the same path to destruction.

[TC Talks]

I have plenty of ancestors from Canada who migrated there from both the UK and France first, and probably a lot of distant cousins who still live there. It USED to be a free country that modeled itself after the USA. Now Canada is not free, and the US seems to be on the same path to destruction.

Destruction? Where are you going to go then?

[audiophile]

Looks like TCT has already left the country.

[Ben Zonia]

Looks like TCT has already left the country.

Like Elvis has left the building?

[TC Talks]

Looks like TCT has already left the country.

Not yet... But I am a 5th generation Michigander, and my team is running things around here, abortions remain safe and legal, unions are supported and businesses are still getting a tax refund, so don't expect me to be going anywhere permanently. Just a seasonal residence.

[rugratsonline]

As for the actual "press", Canada does have Freedom of the Press. The only thing they censor are court cases.

Oh but you can fined for quoting the Torah, Koran and the Bible, and that is not freedom.

That NEVER happened in Canada. If it did, do you have proof?

[audiophile]

Pastor Stephen Boissoin had written a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate in 2002, expressing his Biblical beliefs about the homosexual lifestyle. After reading the letter as published in the Advocate, Dr. Darren Lund, a professor at the University of Calgary, filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, accusing Boissoin of violating Canada’s hate crimes law, which prohibits “hate propaganda.”

In May 2008, the Commission ruled against the pastor, and ordered him to cease and desist from further expressing any views regarding the homosexual lifestyle. He was also ordered to pay Dr. Lund the sum of $5,000, and to compose a written apology to the professor, although Lund was not the subject of Boissoin’s writings, nor did the two know each other.

https://christiannews.net/2012/10/23/ca ... rimes-law/