Hurrah for Canadian outrage! The more than 3,000 complaints on the CRTC’s website about Amendment 2010-931 and the resulting media furor has produced results: the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations has decided to question its own almighty wisdom in forcing the CRTC to change the amendment.
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I’ve been seeing quite a bit of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) regarding the CRTC’s Amendment 2010-931, and thought I would address some of the more common arguments being brought up in favour of the amendment. Most of them are pretty baseless, and some even contradict each other.
Read the rest of this entry »Take Action On The CRTC’s Amendments To Allow News Broadcasters To Report Opinions Or Lies As Facts
The Immediate Issue: The CRTC’s Proposed Amendment This is, with no exaggeration, one of the most important issues we as Canadians need to take action on this decade. The definition of what may be reported as news in the media as described by a new Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) amendment would allow broadcasters [...]
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