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in article baa03ba8.0407272309.1423a161@posting.google.com, Siobhan Medeiros
at sbm2004@telus.net wrote on 7/28/04 12:09 AM:

> georgedance@hotmail.com (George Dance) wrote in message
> news:<6312c50b.0407252020.4c565462@posting.google.com>...
>> sbm2004@telus.net (Siobhan Medeiros) wrote in message
>> news:<baa03ba8.0407251035.2d075e72@posting.google.com>...
>>> SunDancer <SunDancingGuy@netscape.net> wrote in message
>>> news:<cdrq6n$8tp$1@utornnr1pp.grouptelecom.net>...
>>>> Siobhan Medeiros wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> georgedance@hotmail.com (George Dance) wrote in message
>>>>> news:<6312c50b.0407210933.5e2f239a@posting.google.com>...
>>>>> 
>>>>>> His Divine Shadow <hisshadow@bigmailbox.net> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:<BD21DAA9.391FA%hisshadow@bigmailbox.net>...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 7/19/04 11:06 AM, TC's useable flesh will be contributed to the
>>>>>>> Protein
>>>>>>> Bank, where it will be recycled for purposes that serve His Shadow.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It is no secret that the masses are intentionally manipulated and
>>>>>>>> dumbed
>>>>>>>> down.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Yeah, it's called Fox News.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But our masses don't get Fox News.  They do get CBC and TVO, which
>>>>>> purportedly uplift and enlighten rather than dumb down and manipulate.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So are Canadian masses any less manipulated and dumbed down than
>>>>>> American masses (which don't get CBC or TVO, but do get Fox News)?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> snip
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There's a big reason why Fox News isn't seen up here.  It's because no
>>>>> one wants it except for a few brainwashed rightoids.
>>>> 
>>>> ...so, the government caters to minorities but they won't cater
>>>> to conservative thinking, I think that's biased as hell, if
>>>> people want to listen to Fox News they should have ever right
>>>> too, and not be censored because it's not a left-wing Liberal
>>>> propagandist.
>>> 
>>> How is it censorship that there isn't enough interest to make a
>>> profit?  Fox News ain't gonna broadcast up here if nobody wants to
>>> subscribe to it.  News flash, it's all about profit.
>> 
>> You know, you're too much.  When a movie studio refuses to hire a
>> Communist writer, you scream about that being censorship; but when a
>> government regulator decides to forbid a news channel to be purchased
>> in Canada, you pretend it's a market decision.
> 
> Yeesh.  First off, as several other posters have done an excellent job
> of doing, THERE IS NO BAN.  Fox News just ain't interested.  And who
> can blame them?  Neo-Con publications aren't exactly selling like
> hotcakes up here.  The National Post is still running red ink, despite
> constantly revamped ad campaigns and "special introductory offers"
> (how many slogans have they gone through this year alone?)  And of
> course, let us not forget Ted Byfields Report magazines, which went
> belly-up last year despite constant cash infusions from certain
> well-to-do individuals who shall go nameless.
> 
> So, basically, what you're complaining about is Murdoch not wanting to
> throw money down a hole.  Get over it.

Special Intro. offers: even Vancouver local rags, the Province and the Sun,
have to constantly promote their papers.
Truth is, at $40. something a month for the same news that appears on their
thrice weekly sister publications for free, they are overcharging for their
heavily advertised paper.
Likewise they charge their advertisers too much as well.

The National Post: in their attempts to compete with the Globe and Mail,
they opt for a flashier format with more color than the Cons. can handle.
Occasionally they DO come up with an interesting article, but GIVE IT AWAY-
right on Front Page where passers-by can read it at the newsstand w/o
inserting their token to buy it.