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Finally, a government that says NO to Fox News type of broadcasting. Now, if only America and the FCC would reach down and find the courage to pull FOX TV NETWORK NEWS broadcast license, we could all get a rest from this distorting, Right Wing Politcal Behemoth. PULL THE PLUG ON HATE - Turn Off Fox News!
It is time that the Federal Government rule that Fox TV Network News is a political organization and not an entertainment company or news organization and have the guts to pull there FCC license for the numerous infractions of the FCC, twisting and distortion of the news, and deliberate attempt to interfere with the election process in America.
PULL THE PLUG ON HATE - PUNCH A FOX REPORTER!
I don't think advocating violence helps (punch a Fox reporter). Even though it's a joke, this is just the kind of ammo the right will use to cry foul.
demmywemmy: You are absolutely correct. I should have said, using Beck's own words: "...shot they in the hear!"
Excuse me, with some many food stamps on my computer I hit the wrong keys, the above should have READ: ". . .SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD!"
My bad, your good!
I hate agreeing with this seed, but I have to agree. Shutting down any broadcast station for any reason sets a really scary precedent. However, what is going on at Fox is setting an even more dangerous precedent. Sure I don't agree with alot of their editorial content, I think most of their talent has some very deep psycological shortcomings, and Murdoch may well be 7th circle of Hell incarnate, and none of that contributes to why that station has to go.
There are entirely too many "I get my news primarily from Fox" types out there believe too many things that are simply not true. That's not good for the public debate, it makes for bad public policy, and that's not good for America. I am not saying Fox employees are evil (another debate for another day) or it's viewers are stupid. I am saying that, if for no other reason than preservation of the Republic, as long as these people are willing to lie to the public, the government should be willing to pull their license.
A Canadian regulation that bans the broadcast of false or misleading news was quietly being fast-tracked for revisions - just as "SunTV" the "to be" Canadian version of Fox News was to launch.
...the Conservative government didn't think that anyone was going to notice this backdoor deal.
The changes would have come at the expense of fair and balanced news...
Come on Stephen, we're Canadians, not retards.
You have to watch those Conservatives.
CONSERVATIVES the world over are the same: "Shifty eyed, lying, little bags of contradictions that are probably the left over KnuckleDragging, Witless Cro-Mag-ons that didn't get their graduation present during the last ICE AGE and temporarily avoided extinction!
That doesn't mean we should let them run the world like PLANET OF THE APE'S, does it?
Let's make sure that they get their engraved invitations next time! Work on it, will ya?
My long-distance boyfriend is Canadian, and he recently asked me about FOX News...apparently he had seen some clips of Beck or O'Reilly on Youtube, and he was stunned. He asked me if anyone actually watched this stuff, and I had to tell him sadly that yes, quite a few people, but that there is a growing realization that they are nothing more than right-wing puppets and outright liars. He was glad there was nothing like that there...I'll be sending him this article asap!
What a bunch of horse manure this is!
Not even laughable at best.
Waste of bandwith!
It would be hard for the FCC to pull Fox News vroadcasting license since they never issued one. You see, Fox News Channel is on cable and is provided by cable and satellite to paying subscribers. It is not broadcast over "public" airwaves and is not subject to FCC regulations.
It would be hard for the FCC to pull Fox News vroadcasting license since they never issued one. You see, Fox News Channel is on cable and is provided by cable and satellite to paying subscribers. It is not broadcast over "public" airwaves and is not subject to FCC regulations.
And *that* is why FOX can get away with doing what it does. It only has to maintain as much "journalistic integrity" as a Home Shopping Channel and be as "fair and balanced" as the strange dude on late night public access. Actually, less because Home Shopping is regulated by Consumer Protection Laws.
I would support any legislation in this country that prohibited the broadcasting or distribution of inaccurate or misleading material intentionally. Fair and balanced news - it's like a distant memory in this country now. In earlier years we could always turn to the news when we wanted to separate the fact from fiction dispensed by our politicians. But Cronkite has definitely left the building.
I believe in the separation of church and state as provided for by our founding fathers. I wonder, if they could have imagined the massively influential news network empires of today, if they would also have provided for the separation of networks and state? Probably. I'd love to see a return to truth in news from all organizations (as well as truth in advertising). Who could possibly complain about networks being held accountable for telling the truth?
As we found out in the Bigot's Baptist Church ruling from SCOTUS this very week, the First Amendment is like a double-edged sword. One side cuts and kills any attempt to stymie free speech, while the other side cuts us and leaves us to bleed. I hate to admit it, but I have to concur with Chief Justice Robert's (partial) opinion that sees more harm in limiting free speech than there is in protecting us against any emotional harm that free speech might cause. The same is true with Fox (or Fixed, if you prefer) News here. If we pass a law where false and misleading reporting is illegal, what happens when there is another "Bubble Boy" story (and, as long as there are people, there will be another airhead that tries to fake their way to popularity)? Do we lock up every reporter who tries to fill a 24/365 news vacuum with anything available?
We already have laws against fraud, slander, libel, etc.; what we do not have is the courage to use those laws to their fullest extent against the pathologically untrue "bobble heads" (I though that I made that term up for them -- DAMN!!!) at Fox News (and anywhere else they might pop up).
Canada doesn't have the time for politically charged bullsh*t like we do here in the fabulous states.
I guess I need to start petitioning my satellite provider to make the FAUX BS a pay only station...kind of like PPV....pisses me off some of the garbage that we have to pay for to view the few decent channels out there.
Sometimes, being a CANADIAN, just makes me smile!!!
And always, being a CANADIAN, just makes me proud!!!
Only in America.
#2 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 9:22 AM ESTGgap: Only in America? Does that mean you wold support our petition to have Fox drawn and quartered, their license yanked and Beck's tongue cut out on NPR?
Yep, life here in Canada is great! The only way you can get "Fox", is to pay for it through satellite. You just get news, no opinions or BS from Canadian news stations, and they're not afraid to report ALL news.
Sun TV is still expected to launch on schedule in the spring of 2011. How this decision will affect their planned approach to news reporting is as yet unclear.
My guess is that in time they will be caught perpetrating "Fox-like" antics. But if they'e actually breaking the law, hopefully they will then be punished.
#3 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:10 AM ESTJust a slight correction:
Finally, a government that says NO to Fox News type of broadcasting.
The Harper government was pushing YES on this issue - it was a massive backlash of the Canadian people that forced the CRTC to say NO. In fact, SUN TV is a pet project of Conservative insiders with the full support of the current government.
#4 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:31 AM ESTGlinda: Thank you for the correction!
As a proud, "know nothing", lazy, Left Leaning Liberal I can't really read, spell or think and, quite frankly, just spout off at the mouth. But, the very low esteem that we here, at the less than prestigious, Bird Droppings Institute, A Thunk Tank For Smart Ale-cs, have for Journalism - I graciously accept your "slight" correction.
Here, in America, Fox TV is the pet of Right Wing Conservative, Born Again, End Timers, Republican Tea & Nuts Party, too.
Glinda:
"The Harper government was pushing YES on this issue - it was a massive backlash of the Canadian people that forced the CRTC to say NO. In fact, SUN TV is a pet project of Conservative insiders with the full support of the current government."
Yes, the Canadian people don't put up with one-sided crap. That's a big difference. Some of us are still wondering how much Harper was offered to go along with it. I'm still pissed at Harper for going along with a lot of Juniors' crap. A large difference is that people here in Canada VOTE!!
Well, Canadians have the advantage of living next door to the US and usually they have gone ahead and done something first before some wannabe up here tries to follow suit. Having already seen some of FOX news second-hand we know we like our news to be at least mostly true.
Hopefully enough of us will get out and vote down Harper this spring or we will end up with a lot of expensive prisons built for "unreported" crime.
Glinda:
"Hopefully enough of us will get out and vote down Harper this spring or we will end up with a lot of expensive prisons built for "unreported" crime."
100% agreed!!!
All of you Demo-lefter's don't need to fret much longer, You'll all be gone come 2012..Then you can go from the "DEMOCRATIC ENTITLEMENT PARTY" to the "WHAT THE F##K PARTY" So sad to Bad! Stop whining all the time, even your own are tired of it!go way.
#5 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:40 AM ESThappy mike--I am not sure what "plane of reality" you are living on--but 2012 will definately NOT be a DEM defeat as you imagine.
Have you not seen the uprising in almost every state that has a TeaPublican gov? There will be a turn out like never before--so, if I were you, I would hold off on those big celebratory plans. Lets see the results first. Or--do you know something the other 300 or more million people of this country know??? And more importantly --- who told you???
happy mike: You are so right, Happy Mike, is it the "Happy Meals" that you serve or your recently acquired GED that give you your wisdom and prophetic ability.
In 2012, your prophetic visions, I believe will be fullfilled and we are all (Republicans, Conservative and Liberal) going to be SOL when the Aztec Indians return on December 21, 2012 and reign down their asteroids like perverts at a TEA Party convention. LOL
All of you Demo-lefter's don't need to fret much longer, You'll all be gone come 2012..Then you can go from the "DEMOCRATIC ENTITLEMENT PARTY" to the "WHAT THE F##K PARTY" So sad to Bad! Stop whining all the time, even your own are tired of it!go way.
any chance of repeating that in english as i do not understand ebonics or whatever it is
I,m really sorry people!...I didn't mean to squash that nerve so bad...But like I said get over it.
happymike, if you think ALL Democrats will ever be voted out of office, you are sadly deluded. There will never come a day in this country when ALL Repubs or ALL Dems are ever voted out of office. It's a two-party plus system for a reason...and people who advocate a one-party system, such as you just did, seem to be actually advocating a form of Communism.
That's scary...shame on you. 8(
For those wanting faux news shut down.......do you also want msnbc shut down and all other sources that are politically slanted???? See my problem is what you are really saying is we want censorship against anyone who DOESN'T agree with us. Before you go on the they lie trip, they all do , some more blatantly than others. That is the only real difference.
#6 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 10:57 AM ESTI agree with what you are saying, shut one down, you have to shut them all down. An easy solution would be to revoke the "news" from Faux news, given the drove of lies and misinformation they bletch. Let them spew what every they want so long as it is no longer broadcast as news. Call it Faux Editorial, Faux Op-Ed, Faux Opinion, Faux Fear Factor, Faux, We Lie, etc.
John Doee......I can go with that all the way , now let's take it one step further and apply it to all of them ie...NEWS only we don't want their dam opinion we are adults and we will make up our own minds what WE THINK. GIVE me the straight and HONEST FACT's in other words THE NEW's .
To me it is not the fact that they are right wing it is the fact that they lie and fabricate the news to suit their politicalviews. and then you also have the glenn beck factor any network that has him should be under scrutiny.
zorconv......"that they lie and fabricate the news to suit their political views"
Yet don't they all do this to some degree????Not saying it's right but if you condemn one and not the others seems kind of hypocritical to me. As I tell my kids when the tell me it's not as bad as..........In this statement you are still saying IT'S BAD.
All the media's have become nothing more than, politically bias entertainment. With a cast of characters that rival any bad soap opera!..They don't resolve any issues.They just incite bad feeling's among all american's. And I believe stymie any real progress...The media's top concern ,is rateing's rateing's rateing's....I keep telling myself I'm not going to watch,and or listen to it anymore...To no avail, I actually have become somewhat addicted to it...Like this Friggin newsvine...My hatred and contempt for any others views increases 1000% everytime I come on Line...
happy mike, perhaps, upon reflection you might want to change your handle to: psycopath mike? LOL
I WEANED MYSELF FROM FOX BY SMACKING MYSELF WITH A MALLET EVERY TIME I WATCH IT and within a year I was cure - but a real "sight for sore eyes".
cheif, no one flat out lies on the level that Fox does. it's really well documented at this point too.
happy mike: "You're so vain, I betcha, I betcha - You Thought I Was Talkin' About Ya - when I said: 'Lame', So Lame! Bird Brain."
You're killin' me, here! I meant Game! As in, "Man, that cat, is game. Doesn't he ever bathe?
Too bad, it would have been funny to see Fox talk about the evils of Canadian health care to an audience that knows about it. Go Canada!
#7 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 11:04 AM ESTIt should be a "NO" here too but people seem to fall for their constant misrepresentations of "news" here in America.
Time and time again they have been proven to use combined or false footage of events to lie or bias their stories.
The public also isn't informed that their hosts are opinion based programming and do not constitute being a "news" program.
Canada is smart for rejecting this and was polite and politically correct saying they rejected this "style" but what they are rejecting are the falsehoods which is a smart thing to do.
I wish Americans would wake up to the Fox propaganda machine run by a foreigner for profit using the public like tools for the Fox right wing agenda.
#8 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 11:22 AM ESTseems like all you "pull the plug on fox" supports should read the 8-1 majority opinion just written regarding the first amendment... link
The solution to abhorrent, vile, nasty, dishonest speech is not the restriction of free speach. The solution is more speech.
You are all talking some pretty unamerican jive when you are talking about the government restricting a media outlet.
#10 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 11:33 AM ESTspeech on matters of public concern is at the heart of the first amendment protection...speech concerning public affiars is more than self expression, it is the essence of self government
Justice Roberts on the first amendment.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence...
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, selfreliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present
Concurring opinion Whitney V. The people of California Justice Brandeis (1927)
Im pretty sure the American people have thought about this "Free Speechy" thingy before guys..It's pretty important to who we are...i hope we can either end this topic, or label it as satire or something..this whole idea of pulling the plug on Fox is pretty rediculous (though it seems to have some support here)
LukeNY: But, Luke of New York, we are LEFT LEANING LIBERALS, too lazy to work, completely dependent on the government doing everything for us. How else would we all get our food stamps, housing vouchers and government cheese.
What a life we lead - even with the fleas! It's More Government So that We Can Take From the Hard Working Christian Right Wing Republicans And Feed our undeserving, lazy, socialistic kids.
We, the Lazy Left, need big government to do it for us.
Pull FOX TV ROADCAST BLICENSE. They are not a news organization, entertainment company. They are the political arm of the Conservative Right Wing of the Republican Tea & Nuts Party. Shut them down and force them to reorganize under a political pact.
PigeonReport.......First I lean to the right but let's not paint all the left as lazy ,that be a mighty big brush you got there. See by doing that we become more like the left. That being said...I do agree it seems that many on the left wait for the government to fix all there woes. Time to get up and do something for themselves ,yes it is hard in this economy . HARD not IMPOSSIBLE.
Pigeon im about as progressive as they come, im not sure if that was aparent due to the fact that I disagree with you.
However, your disdain for the first amendment is clear. You remind me of that nutty protester in Madison who had a perfectly good platform to stand up and say something and all he could think to say is "FOX LIES...FOX LIES...FOX LIES"
Perhaps you should reframe your argument around campaign finance reform. You are close to making a good point here
They are the political arm of the Conservative Right Wing of the Republican Tea & Nuts Party.
But you lost track and started yelling "FOX LIES" like the lunatic in Madison.
Geeze Pigeon, i didn't realize i was conversing with such a wacky person.
I'm Definitely done with this conversation; I hope somebody learned something from it, we know Pigeon didn't.
Pigeon, you do a great disservice to the progressive cause.
#13 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 12:44 PM ESTCanadians have us beat! Not only do they provide health care for their citizens, they also require honesty from their news media. We let greed take over and allowed a propaganda machine to start destroying our country. What can we do to get Fox News shut down or branded as entertainment something akin to the Jerry Springer show?
#14 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 12:46 PM ESTI wish I lived there. I am hoping it is just the loud screaming coming from fox. If not, our nation is getting more and more misiinformed and twisted into hatred.
#15 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 12:53 PM ESTFox doesn't even try to hide the fact they are biased and feed disinformation to their minions.
They even have a court decision saying as much, they are proud of the fact, and I can't be the only one that noticed Fox get much much WORSE after this decision.
I just wonder why the minions still believe them??
#16 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 1:03 PM ESTwell..bully for Canada.......umm...that's not our country.
genevieveveva, you CAN live there!---Go!
Angry Left, why don't you watch MSNBC since they are soooo unbiased...blah ha ha ha!!!!LOL!!!
Freedom of Speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution....remember???
The only thing MSNBC and FOX have in common is that FOX distributes the propaganda, while MSNBC exposes the propaganda.
Stacey, as is evident with fox newsfotainment , the freedom to lie is protected as well
I'll defend Fox's right to lie as much as their tiny lil hearts content, what I will fight for is for them not to sully the Term "News" anymore.
Now follow me and see the difference
Fox "News", Fair and Balanced
MSNBC The place for or Politics
everything in Bold in these descriptions are inaccurate.
Randy...now follow this--> they both get ratings for being "Cable NEWS Channels"
Fox News just get a whole lot more!
and if ya don't like it, you can move to Canada =)
The problem is FAUX does not report NEWS...they report opinions!
We are all barnyard denizen's of this country. No matter what side of the fence we graze on.
Whatever is put in our through we gobble it up, and bellow, moo, cackle, and baa, at the other side that our feed is better than the theirs.
We will never change each others minds. One side never listens to the other side. However,
FOX LIES !!!!!
#18 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 2:03 PM ESTIt is amazing what you can do with 15% of the population when you have a news outlet and money.
Can not understand why Canada wouldn't want to just "Listen to the People". :p
#19 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 2:37 PM ESTI am glad to see the Canadian people are not happy having false information spewed as news to them. Pity there are no such constraints on the deliberate dissemination of falsehoods as news in this country, free speech should not be posited as true when it is known to be false as FOX does.
#20 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 2:58 PM ESTKudos to Canucks for stopping the CANTUKYfication of their country. No surprise that Harper wants have a propaganda wing like Fox.
#21 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 4:04 PM ESTBroadcasting companies should be about nothing more nor less than broadcasting. When the US allowed corporate conglomerates to own broadcasters the die was cast. Money rules all. Our most popular broadcast organization is owned by a foreign interloper posing as an American citizen, after first buggering up the British media sector with his "money before truth" brand of slack-jawed "journalism".
#22 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 4:29 PM ESTSmart people our Canadian neighbors are! They are ahead of us in so many ways and have a healthier and happier population for it. Not surprising our northern neighbors won't allow poison media in thier country. Bravo!
Reminds me of my favorite Winston Churchill quote:
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Helps me to believe there is hope for us yet.
#23 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 4:51 PM ESTI do not like Fox news. While some of their coverage deals with real news issues and they do cover some stories competently, there is way too much emphasis on sensational stories of little real relevances such as the death of any cute white child or celebrity misbehavior. Taken as a whole, though, it is just a lengthy political rant with a few tokens of respectabioity. What serious and objective new organization would employ a cadre of politicians, all of the same stripe? That said, in the words of Voltaire, "I may disagree with what you have to say but will defend to the death your right to say it." Free speech and the first amendment are simply to precious to sacrifice even for something as vile, intellectually vacuous, narrow minded, and destructive as Fox News.
I have always been hopeful that the mess that is Fox would soon end up in the large dustbin of American crackpots like Father Coughlin, Norman Lincoln Rockwell, and Joe McCarthy, and I do put Fox News in their low class. Recently, though, I attended a meeting in Tennessee. I was distressed to see that Fox was on every TV in restaurants and bars, and the entire left side of the radio dial was dominated with Christian broadcasting, with exception of one endangered NPR station. How can someone growing up there ever understand the world?
#24 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 5:19 PM ESTBy Monday Beck and other Fox Crazies will be demonizing Canadians and screaming that Canada has joined the Caliphate and renaming Canadian Bacon, Freedom Bacon.
#25 - Sat Mar 5, 2011 8:34 PM ESTYeah, unfortunately while that kind of thing doesn't work in Canada, it thrives in America.
Because sometimes we don't want to know the truth, we only want to hear what we want to here. I mean, think about how absurd it is that this whole death panels thing came about or the Obama's a closet socialist/Muslim/dictator. The so called 'Birthers?'
People in America are fairly stupid and will believe any drivel that preys on their fears and their prejudices.
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