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Originally posted by krazy
Regardless of the hype and controversy behind this whole thing, I am just glad Canadians can now watch fox. I think it is a good decision...
I actually didn't hear about this until recently. I can't imagine that anyone in Canada would have wanted to be censored. Now you Canadians can have your O'Reilly too!!!
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Basically the issue was objections to violations of both the CRTC's broadcast standards, concerns raised over content that could violate the Charter of Rights & Freedoms, and finally legal objections by close to 100 groups... Ironically the same hurdles that Al Jazeera faced - except they had close to 250 legal objections filed against them.
In all honesty it might fly in Alberta, but I doubt it'll get much play in the mainstream market - just as Al Jazeera will do better in major population centres like Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver but won't be seen much outside them.
Anyways FOX News will have a lot of competition with other international news sources here - most of which at least make the attempt at appearing objective and un-biased.
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