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sbm2004@telus.net (Siobhan Medeiros) wrote in message news:<baa03ba8.0407272309.1423a161@posting.google.com>...
> 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:

> > > > > 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.  

Which is not true.  There have been three applications to have FN
brought to Canada; one approved (with conditions), one denied (on
grounds that had nothing to do with Fox), and the most recent one,
that the CRTC has been investigating for three months.

> 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.

You're mixing apples and oranges, here; all print media have been
going through a rough financial time, regardless of ideology.  (The
/Toronto Star/, for instance, has been giving away thousands of papers
daily, to keep their circulation and advertising rates from dropping).

> So, basically, what you're complaining about is Murdoch not wanting to
> throw money down a hole.  

No, I'm complaining about your misrepresenting the reason why Fox News
is not carried in Canada - which is, in fact, solely because the CRTC
does not permit it.

> Get over it.

You mean, let you get away with it?  Not a chance.