If you think you are right then you think you are right. (Reply #67)

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Sat Dec 8, 2012, 02:29 PM

Cleita (75,480 posts)

67. If you think you are right then you think you are right.

I don't think the conservative slant was what they lost on getting their category 1 license, but on the fact that they weren't newsworthy or "unique" enough. Look at the language carefully. It says what was wrong without accusing them of being liars and propagandists. You yourself said it's subject to greater content regulation under Canadian law as well and you make a claim that the regulation has proven to be toothless without a link pointing to a study or something that says that. It seems to me that since many of us turn to Canadian news sources for our news and find it to be more factual than our mainstream news sources would prove to be otherwise.

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Isn't it time we took down Fox "NEWS"? [View all]	Rosco T.	Dec 2012	OP
the problem is that fokkks is cable.... not broadcast	oldhippydude	Dec 2012	#1
Then isn't it time we GAVE the FCC jurisdiction?	Occulus	Dec 2012	#10
If we did that...	actslikeacarrot	Dec 2012	#14
The problem with that mentality is that	Occulus	Dec 2012	#16
The courts have held that cable has first amendment rights closer to those of newspapers than	onenote	Dec 2012	#43
As long as you're prepared for a Republican FCC to do the same thing to MSNBC or Current...	brooklynite	Dec 2012	#77
I don't care if it's cable, sat or rabbit ears.. a lie is a lie, slander is slander n/m	Rosco T.	Dec 2012	#23
Fox Radio, isn't that part of the FCC?	LeftInTX	Dec 2012	#39
I get them delivered through the air at my house. Dish TV.	Vincardog	Dec 2012	#51
Imagine what society would be like if we replaced all RW media with educational programming instead	JaneyVee	Dec 2012	#2
Imagine what society would be like if the Constitution allowed the government to make those	onenote	Dec 2012	#44
In contrast to FoX Propaganda Channel	pbrower2a	Dec 2012	#83
I haven't watched Fox News in about 10 years. I suggest you do the same.	virgogal	Dec 2012	#3
Consider this choir member preached.	Occulus	Dec 2012	#11
Normally I agree, but	AlreadyDoneThat	Dec 2012	#53
Welcome to DU!	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#57
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnn.........	Iggy	Dec 2012	#4
One election is not proof of any final and irrevocable undoing of	Occulus	Dec 2012	#13
Agreed, However	Iggy	Dec 2012	#33
Preaching to the choir is a good analogy, but	AlreadyDoneThat	Dec 2012	#54
Fox News has been propagandizing for 30 years?	onenote	Dec 2012	#45
You, too.	Occulus	Dec 2012	#60
Do You Actually Look At Their Ratings?	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2012	#55
I said "and its ilk"	Occulus	Dec 2012	#59
Oh yeah?	rainin	Dec 2012	#80
Good idea. We could reinstate the Sedition Act from 1798 so government can	jody	Dec 2012	#5
Are you defending Foxnews?	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#9
They are not on the air ...	oldhippie	Dec 2012	#18
I mean like complaints and boycotts. Sorry for not being clearer.	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#19
Actually jody is defending freedom	AlexSatan	Dec 2012	#36
Point taken!	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#40
The Sedition Act has fuck-all to do with the OP	Occulus	Dec 2012	#15
Please read the Sedition Act. OP has every thing to do with it because the OP wants to punish	jody	Dec 2012	#42
results of jury service	naaman fletcher	Dec 2012	#47
Recently a post said of me "You are a disgusting, sick person." I alerted and	jody	Dec 2012	#49
If you are wishing for legislation like Canada and the UK	former9thward	Dec 2012	#6
untrue	Rosco T.	Dec 2012	#25
Nope.	former9thward	Dec 2012	#35
yes	samsingh	Dec 2012	#7
My repuke friends support "the rules"	socialindependocrat	Dec 2012	#8
Make them put up a truth ticker.	sarcasmo	Dec 2012	#12
Yes, news as a vehicle to keep the populace informed	Cleita	Dec 2012	#17
I have daydreamed trying to organize 20M people to each buy $50 stock & then proxy votes	Turn CO Blue	Dec 2012	#20
That is how to do it	AlexSatan	Dec 2012	#37
We must collectively work very hard	mick063	Dec 2012	#21
I agree. Cable or no, it's a different animal when they are causing the whole country to have	loudsue	Dec 2012	#22
This message was self-deleted by its author	Jonny	Dec 2012	#24
Hair Splitting	Jonny	Dec 2012	#26
So you would have been okay with Nixon's prosecution of the New York Times	onenote	Dec 2012	#46
As I now ONLY watch Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC and none of the others...	graham4anything	Dec 2012	#27
Media Matters points the lies out at least	ErikJ	Dec 2012	#28
Opinions Are One Thing, Facts Another	colsohlibgal	Dec 2012	#29
splendid idea	jeanlibny594283	Dec 2012	#30
Canada FAUX is an "Entertainment Network" IF ya' ACT like clowns, it's just truth in advertising.	Tigress DEM	Dec 2012	#31
Once a person learns what propaganda is they stop watching MSMedia...	just1voice	Dec 2012	#32
They're Already Starting To Take Themselves Down...and the Rushpublicans with them...	KharmaTrain	Dec 2012	#34
If you see them on in a doctor's or dentist's office, complain to the staff	LeftInTX	Dec 2012	#38
Something similar would fill the void. Apparently there is a market for their point of view.	Throd	Dec 2012	#41
If I say what I want to say, I probably be alerted	Great Caesars Ghost	Dec 2012	#48
Apparently few have read the Sedition Act so I post it below.	jody	Dec 2012	#50
So, they were against it and so are you against charges of (libel) sedition, I'm guessing.	freshwest	Dec 2012	#82
I support nullification as Jefferson and Madison defined it in their KY & VA resolutions. nt	jody	Dec 2012	#85
As far as states' rights go, that interpretation has been abused to deny human rights..	freshwest	Dec 2012	#86
This is how we do it. We put a law in place like Canada has.	Cleita	Dec 2012	#52
Sun News has been available in Canada since April 2011	onenote	Dec 2012	#62
Perhaps, but because the other stations must mind regulations according to their license, it keeps	Cleita	Dec 2012	#63
The Wikipedia entry you cite confirms everything I wrote	onenote	Dec 2012	#65
If you think you are right then you think you are right.	Cleita	Dec 2012	#67
Here's an example of how Sun News doesn't seem to be restrained by Canadian law	onenote	Dec 2012	#68
Yes, but the fact is they aren't taken seriously because they aren't dominating the whole	Cleita	Dec 2012	#69
Fox News isn't remotely the dominant news source for the entire country.	onenote	Dec 2012	#71
If you believe that you aren't paying attention.	Cleita	Dec 2012	#72
You need to get out more	onenote	Dec 2012	#73
Ann Coulter as despicable as she is much smarter than Jonah Goldberg,	Cleita	Dec 2012	#74
btw I looked up your link.	Cleita	Dec 2012	#75
Do you think you can get away with just making stuff up?	onenote	Dec 2012	#78
I'm not the person making stuff up here and although I do respect the Pew Center,	Cleita	Dec 2012	#79
You really are something else.	onenote	Dec 2012	#84
The best way to take down Faux, I believe	AlreadyDoneThat	Dec 2012	#56
a decade overdue	upi402	Dec 2012	#58
Fox is only more blatant than the others	KurtNYC	Dec 2012	#61
I heard a commercial on the radio that Fox News is the only radio news station in SW Florida.	Michigan Alum	Dec 2012	#64
I would like to see this happen but the only way we can do it is through their advertisers like	jwirr	Dec 2012	#66
Yep. The best way is to	underthematrix	Dec 2012	#76
what is an example of something they have said or done in the past that you believe	arely staircase	Dec 2012	#70
I haven't even owned a TV in a decade.	brokechris	Dec 2012	#81
Makes Me Sad When I See The Shortsightedness Of This	NeedleCast	Dec 2012	#87
I am pro-choice on this issue. I don't like Fox, so I choose not to watch it.	Nye Bevan	Dec 2012	#88

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