Thursday, July 15, 2004
THE FAUX FOX NEWS CONSPIRACY
With Al Jazeera being given the okay to begin broadcasting in Canada (see previous post), it has once again caused the right whingers to begin whinging about how Fox News is being prevented from broadcasting in Canada. Here are two prime examples of this whinging. First from Dumbnation's, Damian Penny.
But Canadians who want the Fox News Channel should take heart, because now that the CRTC has allowed Al-Jazeera, it's hard to see how they can justify keeping out (shudder) a conservative news channel. Though I'm sure some Canadian bureaucrats could make up a reason.And here is the same whinging from Dana at Canadian Comment.
Saddly though us Canadians apparently aren't ready for the likes of FOXNews. All those snappy ads and American commentators could potentially lead us Canadians down a dark and terrible path.Well, it's a funny thing, but apparently the CRTC has no recollection of any attempt on their part to block Fox News from broadcasting in Canada. In fact, it would seem that a licence was issued in 2000 for Fox to start up, in conjunction with Global TV, Fox News Canada. It also seems that there is currently a proposal on the CRTC's list of cases for this year to allow the actual Fox News to broadcast in Canada.
Clearly, these rubes have concocted this conspiracy theory that someone is trying to keep them from watching their beloved propaganda channel out of thin air. That's not surprising since these mental midgets also believed, and still believe to this day, that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Update: My favorite columnist, Antonia Zerbisias, hammers the final nail into the coffin of this wingnut conspiracy.
By the way, watch for a lot of ill-informed squawking about how the CRTC allows in the loathed Al-Jazeera but "bans" Fox News.Swish! Nothin but net.
Wrong. Two years ago, when the cable industry applied to bring in Fox, the CRTC was hamstrung by a deal between Fox and CanWest Global for a digital hybrid, Fox News Canada. The cable guys also bungled by bundling Fox with other services that had no hope of getting in. Now there's another Fox application. Last week, the CRTC asked for comments on the application which will likely be approved.
By the way, take note of the first use in the mainstream media of the term "right whinger" in the article. Sweeeet. Now if Antonia could work "rube" into one of her columns in reference to the right, my work on this planet would be done.
Happy thoughts to you.
Robert McClelland blahgged this at 6:43 PM
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