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.

Harper’s attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television are a stark admission that right-wing political ideology can only dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a political party or broadcast network that makes itself the tool of corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular with the public. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News’ notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin’s protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided.

Skeptic Money » Blog Archive » Fox News Banned From Canada – Law Forbids Lying On Broadcast News. - You make sense but does your money?

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its an absolute crime that fox news is able to say and do whatever it feels like, and people here gobble it up. it's true that americans prefer entertainment over news, which makes their media coverage overall just so crappy and leaves americans completely uninformed. but glad fox is being called out for dishonesty.

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we have fox news here, who says we don't? Its available in canada and so is Fox news sister canadian site Sun TV, though they don't get news channel designation.

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It's not banned in Canada..fairly certain of that.


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what does that mean?

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oh the comments are all a year and a half old and the article doesn't have a date on it. don't i look stupid lol!

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means they cant be on public broadasting have to be on cable and u have to susbcribe to watch it cable operators are not required to carry it as news channel, as they are bound by law to carry CBC and i believe CTV

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oh my god... the sun and ezra levant...

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