For all the people saying this is a hoax, I will tell you that indeed it is NOT. Almost a year ago to this time I recall watching on CBC the report on NewsCorp wanting to open a Fox North right wing branch of news here in Canada. As a matter of fact I even SIGNED a petition to stop this from happening. I subscribe to Openmedia.ca on Facebook and the regularly update on things like this. The backlash from the Canadians citizens, thinking that our broadcasting laws where about to be torn down by Stephen Harper and his cronies, was immense and thus the CRTC decided to not allow this to go down.

I also read the entire source article in the OP and although it is coming from a blog and not from an actual credible source, I found non of the facts to be false or misleading, to the best of my knowledge.

Now, we do get American news channels here in Canada, including FOX, but these are mostly on a pay basis. Basic cable (no bundles, no digital BS packs) does not include them so we willfully subject ourselves to their lies by wanting more useless TV channels to flick through.

Now as far as the law goes... well, I watch CBC, CTV, and other mainstream Canadian news and I feel that they are just pushing the same propaganda as their American counterparts but there is a fair amount of investigative journalism done here in the Canadian news that you don't see on FOX or CNN. CBC also often broadcasts documentaries that favor the ATS Style of thought rather than a the mindless drone styles. I don't LOVE CBC or ANY msm source but its a hell of a lot more tolerable than American news and I for one am relieved that we won't be seeing a Fox North here.

Edited Side Note: All these Americans claiming this DID NOT HAPPEN? Since when do you even give two Sh*ts about what happens here in Canada, enough to pay attention to it and know it for fact? I may be clumping you all into the same group and I apologize for that but generally Americans know NOTHING about Canada and Canadian affairs because they have enough of their own problems to worry about. Canadians, on the other hand, know a load about what is going on in the USA because it greatly effects what happens here.

Because I couldn't be arsed to read through all the ranting and arguing, I'll try to keep my eye on the ball. LIKE Fox News is just as bad as BEING Fox News. Anything that is even remotely as ridiculous as Fox News should be treated like a red-headed stepchild no one wanted(no offense to normal gingers). Or like the leftover pizza that sat in the fridge for over a week. Just because it isn't actually Fox News, doesn't mean that it isn't subject to the same level of disgust, revile, severe skepticism, distrust, and general disappointment that we normally view Fox with. Fear and hate-mongering, and the propagation of lies, distraction from the important things, and dis-info are the things we DON'T want being pushed through our media, regardless of which network broadcaster it comes from. The fact that Canada has a faithful(mostly) system for filtering out all or most of that waste of air-space is a good thing. I would also like to point out that there is, in fact, a difference between lying, and getting the facts wrong.

Just my take on things.

Originally posted by real_one


pwnt!

Canada is known for their BS reporting, I don't see what the problem is with FOX news. Canadian news broadcasting is a mirror image of their American counterparts.

I live in Toronto, and some TV stations are American. I watch our news and American news. American news is biased towards America. It doesn't even touch topics that Canadian news will cover. Heck, even BBC news world is way better to watch than CNN or Fox. Talk about 'dumbing down' the American public, by 'feeding' them what you want tthem to hear!

if you are eliminating the giant media corporations then you forgot the one in Quebec: Quebecor- also one of the large corporations ruling the media producing the same reporting. With only a few media outlets, the stories are one that go with the agenda.

Canadian news is just that. No bull no, crap no sensationalism.
We leave that to fox, the kids joke channel.

Thats grate but it really just sounds like they are attacking fox news. They surly have news networks that lie? Maybe I have been in America a little to long.

Originally posted by Fishticon84

For example: I can not subscribe to DirectTV even if I go and buy the dish in the US and get a PO box in Plattsburgh and I can not view videos on certain websites such as MTV and Comedy Central.

I used to have such problems til I downloaded and set up a little app called rtmpGUI. Google it. It streams almost all American and popular international cable network tv channels right to your PC for free. It's so good, I don't pay for cable anymore.. no need to.

I get fox news in my car. Pretty sure it works in Canada although I have not traveled there for many years.

If someone wants it, there is no way to prevent them from receiving it in our tiny little world ringed with satellites.

I like fox news. Liked to listen to the morning show on the way in to work when I lived in Michigan. Now, I am on the shift that starts at midnight, and living in So Ca so I watch it on TV in the breakroom at lunch time (4am west coast time).

The only thing that I really did not like was Glen Beck. He is a little too intense for me.

When they say Fox News, do they mean all of the news programs? Because i've seen people use the term "Fox News" alot to when referring to shows that are on the Fox News network. Also, what about opinion programs? I'm pretty sure those don't qualify as newscasts, and I would like to think that Canadians are smart enough to know the difference between the two (America, not so much). Don't get me wrong, I don't like Fox (with some execptions), just wondering.

That being said, I really have no problem with this as long as they treat all other news organizations fairly in regards to this and don't try to play favorites.