False news proposal killed by CRTC

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False news proposal killed by CRTC

The Canadian Press
Posted: Feb 25, 2011 8:10 PM ET

The CRTC has withdrawn a controversial proposal that would have given TV and radio stations more leeway to broadcast false or misleading news.

Indeed, the broadcast regulator now says it never wanted the regulatory change in the first place and was only responding to orders from a parliamentary committee.

The committee last week quietly withdrew its request for regulatory amendments in the face of a public backlash.

With that, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission was only too happy to drop the idea altogether.

The proposed change would have considerably narrowed the scope of the current ban to cover only false or misleading news that could endanger the lives, health or safety of the public.

“All I can say is, ‘Thank you, committee,”‘ CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein told the specialty publication The Wire Report last week.

“I will withdraw this proposal tomorrow. This is the end of this issue.”

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/technology/story/2011/02/25/crtc-false-news.html

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Thanks 4 the tip dood, though I dunno if this is a win or not. It sounds like it may be Orwellian, or we’re supposed to think it’s good when it’s actually bad politically correct censorship of the Canadian marketplace of ideas, like we’re too dumb to handle free enterprise, check stuff out and think for ourselves. They might consider The Alex Jones Radio Show as “false or misleading news” and I have no idea what the current “ban” on it really means. Will investigate, it might be a good thing, but here in Communist Canada, you never know what you’re not allowed to know…

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