Well, I can't wait to hear the far right whining spin up, having lost their attempt at politicizing Canadian media by pushing for forced access to our cable fees.
Yeah, I was a part of this campaign, and yeah, I feel pretty good about winning it. This is democracy as it is supposed to work.
Not only that, it was an unfair fight! That's right - the head of SunTV was Harper's former spin doctor, Kory Teneycke. After we Canadians asked the RCMP to check out attempts to sabotage the online petition, he suddenly resigned in disgrace (Win!). Meanwhile, Harper was trying to push out the head of the CRTC so he could appoint someone who would approve the application.
Oh - you righties were thinking it was the unfair to SunTV? Ah no. This is how it is SUPPOSED to work. No tear gas, no chance to stage-manage agent provocateurs - just regular citizens getting together and saying no, this isn't what we want.
But it's a free market! Ah, no. Fox News North ADMITTED that if given a free choice, Canadians would not watch the channel enough to make it profitable, and that is why they went after a special license from the CRTC that would force cable companies to carry them. This was ENTIRELY driven by Harper's desire to have a 24 hour propaganda hate channel running in Canada.
So I am VERY happy this AM that The People spoke out, and that an attempt to bring angry, pundit-opinion, extreme-right politicized propaganda has been stymied.
Sun TV gears down licence application, The Globe and Mail
[URL="http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/communityofinterest/archive/2010/10/06/fox-news-north-not-savour-the-victory.aspx
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/communityofinterest/archive/2010/10/06/fox-news-north-not-savour-the-victory.aspx"]Fox News North - Not: Savour the victory, The Vancouver Sun
