Fox News Rejected In Canada Because.....

This makes me sad. I don't actually watch TV at all since we live in a day with the interwebz, but giving the government power to decide what can and cannot be reported is not something I'm a fan of. Whether you like Fox News or not, no doubt many of the things we take as unquestionable truth will seem as preposterous as a flat earth (which no doubt seemed entirely legit in its day) 100 years from now. If you allow censorship you may as well bump that up to 500 years from now.

MSNBC is completely biased towards the left but when they put the screws in on conservative ideals they aren't making up facts or using outright lies to push an agenda. When Santorum was on his rampage over the rights of women and freedom of religion the coverage was obviously against Santorum but the commentary were things he actually said which were not taken out of context.

Take the birther issue surrounding Obama and what does FOX do? Continuously perpetuate the idea the president isn't American even though the overwhelming facts from the left and right concluded Obama was in-fact American.

You could go further with statements like the president is in league with terrorists because his middle name is Hussain, that the president hates white people (which is ironic) or because he bows to a foreign leader that Obama somehow hates the country.

But as the above poster said, people should have their right to FOX if they want to.

George Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something... He looks black."

Zimmerman: We’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy. It’s Retreat View Circle. The best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about.

911 dispatcher: OK, is he White, Black, or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

Isn't fox news like reality tv?

I usually take the censorship bit, but Fox news is beyond too sensationalized to be allowed to call itself a news channel. I think the issue here is that they claim to be news but have drifted so far beyond it that they're just using that title as protection to spread ***.

If they stripped off the news bit and stopped claiming to be a new machine but instead a talking head machine, I think they'd be given a green light.

Isn't fox news like reality tv?

I don't watch FOX News or MSNBC although I have seen and heard commentary from both. The only difference I see is the political leaning, and for most of their detractors I think that's the real issue whether they want to admit it or not. Flip the opinions while keeping everything else the same and you'd see support and enmity flip as well. Politics and logical thinking just don't coexist.

Fixed it. Point is that this article is probably ***.

Fixed it. Point is that this article is probably ***.

I usually take the censorship bit, but Fox news is beyond too sensationalized to be allowed to call itself a news channel. I think the issue here is that they claim to be news but have drifted so far beyond it that they're just using that title as protection to spread ***.

If they stripped off the news bit and stopped claiming to be a new machine but instead a talking head machine, I think they'd be given a green light.

how so?

and what were you trying to prove with that link?

Always knew Canada > USA no goverment debt universal healthcare cleaner brighter roads no lies in news broadcasting just a few things. I go to the states on regular basis only because everything is 1/2 the price as in canada. great for canadians. when i found out usa wages were so disgustingly low i understood why everything is so cheap. poor poor americans. pun intended.

To clear up confusion, from what I've been able to gather is in 2004, Fox was aired in Canada as an option for digital cable service, since cable providers often offer stations and channels beyond country based broadcasts. The denial of Fox for Canada was based on localized broadcasting options within the country as a whole, reflecting on Canada more so than a service provider.

That the organization the article claims recently denied Fox the right to broadcast in Canada did not make any such ruling? I linked you to the English version of their recent decisions page. Someone is trolling third rate news sources with a ***article that people want to believe because Fox News sucks.

Wizard's First Rule brah, Wizard's First Rule.