FNC Not allowed in Canada?

This is great. I was watching the Fox News Channel last night and they did a report on there inability to get permission to broadcast in Canada. The real kicker is that Al Jazeera just got approval to broadcast. They had some pathetic news reporter that was trying to make Al Jazeera out as a good news source. :rolleyes:

This answers my question from a couple of months ago

They fear an alternative source of news, fortunatly there is nothing they can do about the Matt Drudge and internet bloggs... YET.

More taxes, less freedom, a commie paradise.

Funny, I've seen Canadian news in the US.

I guess they favor only state-sponsored and censored trash like al-jazzera.

And you think Ameircan media is bad?

I used to live in buffalo we get Canadian news there, its bad but I think the BBC is worse.

Maybe the canadians just don't want fairytales to be called news?
That's all fox provides, fairytales.

If thats true why doesn't the govt trust the people to see that?

What else will have to be censored in your utopia?

But they should allow for freedom of information.

Isn't it the people that should decide?

Its simply censorship, and commies support that.

:rolleyes:

I know this is way to much for your commie mind to absorb but I'll try anyway.

Ratings should decide if the 'canadians' would like to have FNC. Not the government.

Only fairytales I see around here are you and your pink friends. Do me a favor, drop some fairy dust on yourself, and disappear.

Actually dude, they had public hearings on it and none of the people who came to the public discussions wanted to give them the license. As for sattelites, we have sattelites, but they have to be provided by canadian companies so that you get the local news.

Believe it or not, the airwaves are not private property, not even in the US. They are publicly owned and are leased to the corporations. In this case, Canadians didn't want to waste that limited space on an American news network that broadcasts nothing but bullshit.

It was not the government that decided this.

To demonstrate a point: My father voted Conservative in the recent Canadian elections and even he thinks that CNN is reactionary. The thing is, America is so fucked up that CNN is actually considered liberal. Fox news is just ultra-conservative bullshit nonsense and no one really wants to see it.

The reason people actually want Al-Jazeera is because they already know that American news is bullshit, they want to see the other side. Personnally, I've never watched Al-Jazeera directly, and I'm willing to bet that niether gummo nor CI have either. So basically, all we have to go on here is other people's descriptions.

Al-Jazeers is propaganda, no news source has no bias. I've watched it, I am an arab afterall, and it's the best Arabic news source out there. Why? Because it challenges the Arab governments in the middle east, it's the first non-government news channel there.

They've raised a hell-storm, interviewing democracy activists across the middle east and giving them a platform. They have panels where representatives from one royal family or another are head to head with a wanted opposition leader sitting accross the table. They've had situations where the government official picks up his shit and flings it across the table and is kicked out half-way through the show.

It's crazy. I love it. But of course there is a bias, everyone has a bias. But I think they provide a poretty balanced view mostly.

Any Canadians I know are VERY HAPPY that Fox isn't seen here!

I want to see Al Jezeera here, but I can't. Shit I"m sick of Fox News, it is blatantly Conservative, and while they deserve to present their side, it think it's also high time Americans saw it from another point of view.

If anything CNN is the most Fair and Balanced network....I rarely see editorializing on that station. It is by no means to the left of Center.

Also I saw O'Rielly's segment. All he was doing was plugging his damn network. Talking about Canada moved to the left, or maybe America just moved to the right. Hell even the guest who agreed with him admitted america moved to the right.

If the candadian people want it badly enough then they'll get it.

Great I’m glad your govt finally decided to allow you guys access to Satellite Dishes, but its unfortunate that they've decide not to let you choose your service provider.

Your point about the Airwaves is true, standard broadcasters are leasing the airwaves and thus must meet certain standards imposed by respective governments, I'm against this and would abolish the FCC here in America.

But those standards do not apply to cable or satellite, Space in not an issue as an almost unlimited number of programming can be viewed with a dish, The Canadian govt. has imposed its self on its people and censored fox news. That’s wrong, It should be available to those who want to view it. Che y Marijuana what if some govt censored che-lives.com? If you believe in free speech then it has to be across the board not just speech you agree with.

Canadians you know is not every Canadian. Not even close. The O'reilly factor gets positive e-mails from Canada and Canadians often.

Besides, what can I say? Canadians are happy with a 50%+ tax rate and censorship. More power to you.

(Actually, I'm sorry, I guess the correct term would be "less power to you".)

Didn't you read the post CI the Canadian Govt decided all the Canadian people hate fox news, so it must be censored. Makes sense to me, VIVA LA REVULSION!

I see you can't read. Not surprisingly if Fox is your source of information. What happened was they had public hearings. If anybody wanted FOX they could have gone there. Nobody wanted it. That's a thing called democracy in action. You guys are just called pathetic for going on with a case that has no basis.

Are you plain stupid? Or do you actually think Canada just got sattelittes?

I guess the people that wanted it had better things to do than to drive to city hall when they heard the town cryer. Why should they need 'public hearings'? If it's true that people didn't show up for the councel meeting on fox but did for Al Jazeera then it's canada that is pathetic.

So what you are saying is that the people who want FOX is 1. to lazy to make an effort to get their station 2. don't really care since they got enough soaps anyway. I had a suspicion that those were the kind of people who viewed FOX :D