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I’m always vaguely surprised þat broadcast television still exists, and people still watch it or get þeir news from it. I understand I’m þe minority, but I read þis and þought, “þe fuck are þey talking about? CBS whatnow?”
‘Dear Americans, we have a functional government and you don’t. Figured we would rub it in to make ourselves feel smug. :) -Canada. ‘
Dear Americans, we have a functional government
I feel comparing yourself to the US isn’t a fair standard.
They have every right to do that and we deserve it, because our government is fucked and our citizens think voting is enough.
Voting is enough actually, you just don’t do it for some reason, and now you have to do something else. And if you managed to screw up voting, the easiest thing there is, my hopes are quite low.
I mean half don’t even vote… So…
our citizens think voting is enough.
We now go live to the DNC headquarters
Meanwhile, in half of the country:
Wasn’t america pro freedom of speach? crazy
It’s just what they call propaganda over there.
America said it was, it never actually has been though.
We’re pro our own freedom of speech, not anybody else’s.
That’s virtue signalling. The right does it a lot while accusing everyone else of it. Very typical.
America is, trump isn’t
Then why to you add these beeps to your TV shows when people say certain things and have eg rap albums in versions with deleted lyrics? I don’t think you like your own freedom.
That’s company policy not law, which you’d know from a single Google search if you tried but no you had to be a hateful fool
No, the FCC has actual laws about what you aren’t allowed to say on broadcast radio and television, with fines for violations. Which you’d know from a single Google search if you tried but no you had to be a hateful fool.
Lol what kind of masturbatory logic is this? Aside from silly blacklist things like swearing, FCC is run by discretionary power when it comes to actual freedom of speech. It has only turned into a major censorship cudgel because of the shitbags appointed to run it. The CRTC has the exact same discretionary power, and would sure as shit be used the same way if Maple MAGA got ahold of it.
FFC regulations are lax, most censorship is network and advertiser induced. Done being ignorant yet?
In my opinion, what may have happened:
Trump lackey found out at the last minute about the segment and ordered it pulled. But said order did not get to Global either due to lack of communication channel, incompetence or malicious compliance(oops we/I forgot to tell them).
It ran on Global. Canada’s answer to Fox News and based out of Alberta. They are extremely pro-US and if any mainstream Canadian TV network was going to force pro-Trump content, they are at the top of that list.
…okay but I hope you can admit that while Global news is the Canadian mainstream news media equivalent to Fox News, that there is a huge difference between the two. I’d still consider Global news as reputable a source as any other mainstream Canadian news broadcaster. Whereas I don’t consider Fox News to be news, journalism or anything other than propaganda and entertainment.
No what happened was the segment was at the finish line when it was pulled. It was fully edited, it passed legal, it was on the schedule, then the billionaire plant running the network pulled it at the last minute
It didn’t get pulled in Canada because it was already ready to go, the video was already sent over and everything, and the ruling class here is incompetent. It was an oversight, exactly the kind of mistake that happens over and over
Global is not like Fox news at all, what are you talking about? Your description matches Rebel News though.
Global consistently outright lies and distorts anything left and center to make it look bad and consistently promotes far right viewpoints.
E.G. look at their coverage of any story that should be pro-worker or pro-NDP. They paint it as a bad thing every time.
Can you provide an example? Fox news is extremely right biased with a poor fact checking record. Global news hasn’t failed any fact checks, they use reputable sources, and show very little bias. They are corporate owned and an offshoot of Shaw, so — it makes sense they’re anti-worker’s rights and more centrist, but that doesn’t make them like Fox at all.
I’ve been out of Canada for a while, so I don’t know how Global news is now. I suspect that comparing it to Fox News is probably overblown by about an order of magnitude, though. It’s very corporate and very stupid, but not at the Fox level.
I remember when I was living near the Roncesvalles neighborhood of Toronto during an election, and Global News decided to run a national news story looking at my riding as some kind of microcosm of the country. The whole story pitted it as a heated contest between the Liberals and Conservatives. I have no idea where they found the Conservative lawn signs for their establishing shots. The Liberals won handily that time with probably 50% of the vote to the NDP’s 35%. I think the Tory got about 12%. It was an incredibly stupid and misleading story that they probably only ran because it was cheap to make (since their Toronto correspondents could drive 15 minutes from downtown in the middle of the day to interview people who don’t have day jobs).
Oh no, they still suck. I haven’t read Global News in a while, I’m just aware of them. Part of my job includes collating news from around the world, which is why I started a few news coms here to diversify the feed a bit.
I haven’t seen that article, so I can’t speak to it. I did once make a statement, as a teenager, to a global news reporter that got sensationalized in print, so I believe you about coercing stories that draw more readers. It’s just a big difference between corporate spin-doctor shenanigans and fox news’ pulling shit straight out of their asses.
Global is owned by Corus, which was spun off from Shaw in ‘99. Corus is headquartered in Toronto. Where did you get your information from?
Ah yes, Corus.
The network that platformed far right con Christy Clark and pushed her as a viable leader.
Careful. You’ll break an ankle sidestepping legitimate questions that hard.
Im OOTL
A 60 Minutes segment about CECOT was pulled from the air in the US but aired in Canada, supposedly by mistake according to US news outlets. It covered the horrible treatment, abuse, and wrongful detention of prisoners there, which apparently the US news corps didn’t like
EDIT: It’s actively being removed from YouTube when people post it - you can watch it on the Internet Archive or on CatBox
Seeding it.
someone shod post it on xvideos
Thanks!
As a Canadian who is OOTL, thanks, this helps a lot
Can’t wait to get a nastygram for using a youtube alternative
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