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2004-08-15 Great White North

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Posted by tipper 2004-08-15 3:40:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Al Jiz Yes, FNC NO? Seems like a nice balanced news up there in Canada. IMO, the libs in this country would follow suit if they were in charge of the FCC. Too bad they can't censor the Internet or the entire country could be ignorant.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-08-15 1:32:11 PM|| 2004-08-15 1:32:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 It revoked the CHOI license, plain and simple.

...after several warnings from the CRTC, which the station chose to ignore. I wouldn't cry any tears for this station, unless of course, you agree with the station that mentally disabled people should be gassed.

I predict that Al Jazeera will last for about one month.

Posted by Rafael 2004-08-15 2:42:19 PM|| 2004-08-15 2:42:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 As a sidenote, France sattelite channels do include Al Jazeera, but not FNC (it was dropped from the two main providers' programs in 2002 IIRC); I emailed FNC about their fine channel which I briefly enjoyed, to see if it was ever going to be aired again in France, and they answered that providers (Canal sat, tps) told them they were not interested... Cute, we've got Al Jiz, Al arabya, Al Manar (which may be banned), but not the channel of the eviill yankees neocons... I surely missed it during OIF.

Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-08-15 4:06:00 PM|| 2004-08-15 4:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody know if Fox News is available anywhere as a video or audio stream? Either for purchase or bootleg. I don't have a TV, but I've got heaps of bandwidth. Last year during the war, some good samaritan rebroadcast FNC audio onto the net via Shoutcast. My usual drill was to concurrently run Fox audio, a BBC News video stream and the video stream of the Baghdad traffic circle from a news pool camera atop one of the hotels. That and lots of war blog surfing.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-08-15 4:47:26 PM|| 2004-08-15 4:47:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing new here. If it's anti US it's good. My friends in Canada were all taught in school to hate the US and that jews and Isreal are to blame for all the problems in the middle east.

Despite the best efforts CRTC television in Canada is dominated by US programming. That doesn't include the many DDS satelite dishes illegaly being operated in Canada.

I forsee Al Jizz having a long run in Canada because it's all about socialist politics not about bias. If it puts Jews and the US in a bad light even if it's lies it's OK.

Posted by Flamebait93268 2004-08-15 4:48:55 PM|| 2004-08-15 4:48:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 If it puts Jews and the US in a bad light even if it's lies it's OK.

Funny, but I could say the same thing about roughly half the population of the U.S. as well.

Posted by Rafael 2004-08-15 7:17:00 PM|| 2004-08-15 7:17:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 touche!

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-15 7:18:14 PM|| 2004-08-15 7:18:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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