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LiberalLovinLug

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8. Well yes, Sun News is called "Fox News North" here

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #7)

Sun May 26, 2013, 06:51 PM

May 2013

Its a Canada made product available on specialty cable channels. But it has to abide by our regulations that shockingly don't allow lies to be spoken on news networks as the truth.

Fox News itself wanted to broadcast the same lying product they show in the USA. But they cannot manage to produce a news show WITHOUT the assurances that they can lie and not be sued for it.

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Mayor Rob Ford, brother blast 'bunch of maggots' in the media [View all] alp227 May 2013 OP

Simple... SoapBox May 2013 #1

Not so simple Posteritatis May 2013 #3

I think the poster was being satirical. greiner3 May 2013 #13

Ford may be nuts or even criminal, it pains me to see Canada having the same embarressments... marble falls May 2013 #2

what is it about 5 years ago now, Canada let fox-lies get a legal toe in their country? Sunlei May 2013 #4

No it didn't go through LiberalLovinLug May 2013 #6

omg, I though Canada let "fox lies" in your country. Are you sure that 'sun news network isn't them? Sunlei May 2013 #7

Well yes, Sun News is called "Fox News North" here LiberalLovinLug May 2013 #8

Um, I have Fox news laundry_queen May 2013 #9

Conservative news outlets aren't a unified, monolithic entity under Republican control. Posteritatis May 2013 #11

Actually, the media is doing its job on this story laundry_queen May 2013 #10

'The media' are absolutely the good guys in this scenario Posteritatis May 2013 #12

Yeah, that'll help. tanyev May 2013 #5