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Cal33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 02:08 PM
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15. You can be sure the right-wingers will be fighting against
whatever will be done to ban deliberate falsification of the news.
Right-wingers lie as naturally as they breathe. It's part of their
personality make-up.

And welcome to the forum, Potatochip! :o)
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  -Canada has a law that bans deliberate falsification of news. Because of this law, Rupert Murdoch's Cal33  Apr-03-11 11:07 AM   #0 
  - We need to bring back The Fairness Doctrine. nt.  PotatoChip   Apr-03-11 11:10 AM   #1 
  - I think we need a law similar to Canada. Any broadcast labelled as "news" must be factual.  bullimiami   Apr-03-11 11:15 AM   #2 
  - That's probably what we need: an equivalent of food's "truth in labeling" laws.  Tesha   Apr-03-11 11:56 AM   #11 
  - Exactly. They can label is the Fox Bullshit Channel. But their sheeple will still probably watch.  bullimiami   Apr-03-11 04:39 PM   #16 
  - Sadly,  Keith Bee   Apr-04-11 01:25 PM   #33 
  - Agree 100%  bluethruandthru   Apr-05-11 06:34 AM   #44 
  - That won't be enough...  derby378   Apr-03-11 11:15 AM   #3 
  - The fairness doctrine did not require truth.  ThomCat   Apr-03-11 11:35 AM   #9 
  - Oh, I agree that it's not enough  PotatoChip   Apr-03-11 12:47 PM   #13 
     - You can be sure the right-wingers will be fighting against  Cal33   Apr-03-11 02:08 PM   #15 
        - I agree.  PotatoChip   Apr-04-11 07:08 AM   #22 
  - +1000% -- and a law like Canada's --  defendandprotect   Apr-04-11 11:16 AM   #27 
  - Now, if we can only make this the news of the day so that right-wingers  The Backlash Cometh   Apr-03-11 11:25 AM   #4 
  - Canada....every day I am more and more in awe of them.  BrklynLiberal   Apr-03-11 11:26 AM   #5 
  - They have a Queen.  oldlib   Apr-03-11 11:30 AM   #8 
     - So? The Queen has ZERO authority over us  Canuckistanian   Apr-04-11 06:37 AM   #19 
  - And the government briefly tried to repeal that rule a month or so ago  Posteritatis   Apr-03-11 11:28 AM   #6 
  - The Canadian prime minister is a friend of Murdoch's. He tried to  Cal33   Apr-03-11 11:43 AM   #10 
     - Wow -- and this is the only way the right wing rises -- deception, lies, violence, stolen elections  defendandprotect   Apr-04-11 11:18 AM   #28 
  - There is still a functioning press in Canada  PSPS   Apr-03-11 11:29 AM   #7 
  - Wish they would have let him in, then had him thrown in jail  Curmudgeoness   Apr-03-11 12:04 PM   #12 
  - To let him in they'd have to have the law changed, which was  Cal33   Apr-03-11 05:27 PM   #17 
  - The problem is: who is the arbiter of what is a fact?  pnwmom   Apr-03-11 01:04 PM   #14 
  - I don't think it would be too difficult, and I can't see the government  Cal33   Apr-03-11 07:54 PM   #18 
  - Republicans hate the Fairness Doctrine  Kingofalldems   Apr-04-11 06:42 AM   #20 
  - Your DLC New Dems and Blue Dogs don't have much use for a Fair and Balanced media either.  NorthCarolina   Apr-04-11 07:16 AM   #23 
  - You're right. Some of the New Dems. and Blue Dogs seem  Cal33   Apr-04-11 05:14 PM   #36 
     - Heh. See my nickname.  NoBlueDogs   Apr-05-11 08:41 AM   #47 
  - The founders of the NeoConservatives, among them Irving Kristol,  Cal33   Apr-04-11 08:52 AM   #24 
     - Yeah, I recall reading that Strauss taught this philosophy  Kingofalldems   Apr-04-11 09:24 AM   #25 
        - Strauss taught the same thing a generation earlier. No doubt  Cal33   Apr-04-11 12:30 PM   #29 
  - If we had a similar law  madokie   Apr-04-11 06:46 AM   #21 
  - I agree with you 100%, but all of a sudden it came to mind that in this country,  robinlynne   Apr-04-11 11:03 AM   #26 
  - I think only the following is applicable: If you own a news  Cal33   Apr-04-11 01:08 PM   #31 
     - ok. I'll agree with that.  robinlynne   Apr-04-11 01:39 PM   #34 
  - I want freedom "from" the press ...when it comes to Murdoch's bull shit.  L0oniX   Apr-04-11 12:38 PM   #30 
  - Agreed. It's inescapable at this point.  Initech   Apr-04-11 01:43 PM   #35 
  - I maintain that this law doesn't make Canada less free than the US. -nt  Commie Pinko Dirtbag   Apr-04-11 01:09 PM   #32 
  - I agree. I don't see how legalizing deliberate falsification of news  Cal33   Apr-04-11 06:47 PM   #38 
  - we don't have a free press, our press costs $$$  Johonny   Apr-04-11 06:01 PM   #37 
  - "A free press" is not the topic, but "Freedom of the Press," is.  Cal33   Apr-04-11 09:15 PM   #40 
  - no, it seems canada can stop the press because they say it is "falsification"  lawodevolution   Apr-04-11 06:50 PM   #39 
  - Aren't the Canadian people entitled to some decent and honest news reporting?  Cal33   Apr-04-11 09:24 PM   #41 
     - This is your opinion. You think the news is better in Canada. That is not certain.  lawodevolution   Apr-04-11 09:37 PM   #42 
        - With today's speed of information, any newsmedium publishing  Cal33   Apr-05-11 06:32 AM   #43 
           - In the US the news is still liable. If you can block "dishonest" news, that's what they  lawodevolution   Apr-05-11 08:32 AM   #45 
              - "Canada is on its way to being fascist.." I think, only temporarily it looks so. They  Cal33   Apr-05-11 09:37 AM   #48 
  - The GOP would never allow this. It would ruin their chances forever!  mod mom   Apr-05-11 08:39 AM   #46 
 

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