The Harper Government are masters of this ruse. They keep trying it...and we fought back. Remember when they tried to bank-roll the Canwest/ Global network of the Aspers which was floundering as they were sooo biased. We stood strong and they backed down.
Well now here goes another attempt. I wont go into details but just paste the e-mail I got from Avaaz which is a progressive organization well worth joining IMHO. If you do not want to subsidize a right-wing corporate elitist outfit, now is the time to say so.
For those of you who will point at the CBC and Knowledge Network as examples of our subsidies at work. Thank goodness for them- is all I can say... or we would be fed a constant diet of US sit-coms and reality shows...no proper news, no analysis of Canadian events, no Nature of Things, no programs which the advertisers will take offence to.
Our great media which was so biased and right wing they called one of the greatest Canadian ever, taliban Jack, funny how they pulled the article off line now.
Anyway here it is:
Dear friends,
On Monday, a CRTC hearing will consider whether Canadians want to subsidize Sun News or "Fox News North"- a media outlet set up with the help of a top Harper crony. Both Sun News and Avaaz will appear before the hearing. We won this battle last time, but now Sun News has worked nonstop building a petition of 53,000 people over the course of months. Let's blow that out of the water in just days, with double that number saying no to paying for crony-media that corrupts our news and poisons our democracy: |
After Harper and his top spin doctor Kory Teneycke met secretly with Rupert Murdoch, Teneycke was involved in modelling Sun News after Murdoch's Fox News, the political propaganda network that has poisoned U.S. politics. It's Canadian crony-media -- run by a political crony, pushing a political agenda, and now seeking to be funded by a government handout, asking the CRTC to force it onto our basic cable packages.
Sun News have been pushing their petition non-stop for months. If we can double it in a few days, it will send a powerful signal to the CRTC about where Canadians stand -- click below to sign and share this email with everyone who cares about Canadian democracy:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_
The CRTC is the government agency that implements and enforces Canada's broadcasting laws. Among other things, it has the power to require all Canadian cable providers to carry certain channels. But it rarely does this because it would prefer to let consumers choose what channels they want. Canadians aren't choosing to pay for Sun News, and it's losing millions of dollars. So Sun is asking the CRTC to order all cable providers to carry Sun News and pass the cost on to us -- even if we don't want it!
In 2010, tens of thousands of us banded together and helped stop "Fox News North" from getting a similar deal -- even contributing to Harper's aide, Kory Teneycke, resigning as head of the network! But then, the network sneakily hired him back and now they are launching a similar application, hoping we won't speak up while they try and recoup their $17 million in losses from our pockets!
Fox News fuels hate. While constantly claiming to be “fair and balanced,” it has allowed hysterical anchors like Glenn Beck to compare President Obama to "Hitler." Bill O’Reilly, another anchor, has threatened to boycott Canada, and Anne Coulter has said on its network that Canada is lucky the US allows it to "exist on the same continent.” The network has cunningly fuelled the tea party movement in the US, a mobilisation of the fringe right with members who threaten violence upon its opponents and wear guns to political rallies.
This is a fight for the soul of Canadian democracy. Our media is not perfect, but a ‘news’ network that slavishly serves a political agenda through mass manipulation and fear threatens the fabric of our democratic society. And while such a network has the right to offer its views, it doesn't have a right to demand we subsidize it.
Canadians don't like watching "Fox News North", which is why they are losing millions and need a sweet government deal to survive. But we can stop the CRTC from taking money from our pockets to pay for right-wing news. Click below to stand with Avaaz's representative at the live hearing and help us build a big enough call to hammer home our best legal arguments:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_
"Fox News North" threatens to make the country we love look more like the U.S. Thankfully, the CRTC and their public process stands in the way -- let's use this chance to be heard and stop Sun News's grab for our dollars for good.
With hope,
Jeremy, Ari, Emma, Ricken, Mélanie, Laryn and the entire Avaaz team
SOURCES
Sun News Must-Carry Application: CRTC Sounds Skeptical About News Network's Bid (Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Sun News On Basic Cable? CRTC Opens Hearings As Channel's Losses Widen (Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Hating the Jew, hating the ‘gypsy’ (National Post)
http://fullcomment.
Sun News Network viewership lags on first anniversary, controversies continue (Canadian Press)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Sun Media breaches Code of Ethics (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council - CBSC)
http://www.cbsc.ca/english/
Investigation into alleged racist comments against blacks (CBSC)
http://www.cbsc.ca/english/
Warning: This column contains scary Sun News scenes unsuitable for some readers (Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.
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Or you can also get rid of your TV altogether... Better option in my mind
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ReplyDeleteThe psyhospammers have defeated me. I have to put up the word verification. Sorry
ReplyDeleteIf they fund the left, why shouldn't they fund the right? I don't give a donkey kong about this stuff. The media is done anyway. The Internet is where it's at. 100% choice. They will probably have to stop funding everything long-term.
ReplyDeleteThe Sun/Province is going to go kaput, because of a variety of problems stemming from the left and the right. Left: union promotion of seniority vs. merit, means crap writers forevah. Right: media monopoly and cost cutting to ensure squeezing every last dollar out of it means a crap paper full of mistakes not to mention beholden to idiotic industries like real estate so they can't run an honest article to save their lives.
And even if they could, they don't have the thinkers/writers (aside from Bain) to do it... back to the left-wing union promotion of crap writers. Vicious circle. The internet will cure all.
Sorry Fish, we don't often disagree.
No worries egg, disagreement is a good thing, especially if it is rational and reasonable argued.
DeleteYou are right, union seniority rules have damaged many industries. I guess it was to stop the owners form kicking out more experienced but costly employees and replacing them with hungry desperate young'uns. Now all it does is keep miserable unproductive folk locked into jobs they hate.
However the effect of the unions pales before the influence of an owner like Conrad Black or Izzy Asper. Unless you think firing editors and columnist for disagreeing with the owner is a good thing, regardless of whether the content is based on fact or not.
This is how Asper forced most of the major papers he bought to print what he wanted and how he fired any editor who stood his ground
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/11/13/AsperNation/
It was a sad day for Journalism in this country, IMVHO. Sun News is the latest reincarnation.
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Thank goodness for Sun News! Let's get back to morality, democracy and common sense. My whole family LOVES Sun News. It's so refreshing from the cunning and manipulative machinations of the CBC and its backers. The left is killing this country! Mark my words, we will all live to regret it if we don't support the right and bring back good old Canadian values. It isn't left thinking that built this beautiful country. It would never have become this great. The truly wise will always lean toward goodness and fairness.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of scandal surrounding the CBC and it takes honesty and clear sight to admit it. Remember that porn that CBC wanted to include in its programming using our money? That says a lot about that station's core standards. I don't see the Sun News ever sinking that low.
It is amazing to listen to Sun News and hear their fearless reporting of the truth. We Canadians want and need that. We need Sun News and wise discernment, which is sadly missing in the leftist mentality.
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