<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV> I really wish people would stop referring to so called "cable news" as real news. It is entertainment television. You pay for it and is designed to kept you entertained and emotionally engaged so you keep watching it, it doesn't provide you with any actual usable or even accurate newsworthy information. There is nothing you can do with the information dumped into your living room via cable. Local news and news stations you get for free, like NBC, ABC, CBS, and NPR are real and actionable, and fairly accurate news information sources, as are SOME Internet sites. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 3/2/11, Ralph Nielsen <I><nielsen@uidaho.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada<BR>To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 10:24 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR>> Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada<BR>><BR>> By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Reader Supported News<BR>> 01 March 11<BR>><BR>> As America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin <BR>> barricades - against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate <BR>> toadies at Fox News - fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice <BR>> can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin <BR>> border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The <BR>> reason: Canadian regulators announced last week they would reject <BR>> efforts by Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to <BR>> repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.<BR>><BR>> Canada's Radio Act requires that "a <SPAN>licenser</SPAN> may not broadcast ... <BR>> any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News
and <BR>> right-wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model <BR>> for liberal democracy and freedom. As a result of that law, <BR>> Canadians enjoy high quality news coverage, including the kind of <BR>> foreign affairs and investigative journalism that flourished in <BR>> this country before Ronald Reagan abolished the "Fairness Doctrine" <BR>> in 1987. Political <SPAN>dialogue</SPAN> in Canada is marked by civility, <BR>> modesty, honesty, collegiality, and idealism that have pretty much <BR>> disappeared on the US airwaves. When Stephen Harper moved to <BR>> abolish the anti-lying provision of the Radio Act, Canadians rose <BR>> up to oppose him fearing that their tradition of honest non- <BR>> partisan news would be replaced by the toxic, overtly partisan, <BR>> biased and dishonest news coverage familiar to American citizens
<BR>> who listen to Fox News and talk radio. Harper's proposal was timed <BR>> to facilitate the launch of a new right-wing network, "Sun TV News" <BR>> which Canadians call "Fox News North."<BR>><BR>> Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known <BR>> for having mounted a Bush-like war on government scientists, data <BR>> collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a <BR>> wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery: false patriotism, <BR>> bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.<BR>><BR>> Harper's attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television are a <BR>> stark admission that right-wing political ideology can only <BR>> dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since <BR>> corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a <BR>> political party or
broadcast network that makes itself the tool of <BR>> corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular <BR>> with the public. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the <BR>> sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have <BR>> become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public <BR>> airwaves. Fox News' notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of <BR>> the Wisconsin's protests is a prime example of the brand of news <BR>> coverage Canada has smartly avoided."<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news-lies-" target=_blank>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news-lies-</A> <BR>> keep-them-out-of-canada<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the
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