Bad media news - CRTC enables SunTV (Fox News North) to lie to you

Progressive Proselytizing: CRTC enables SunTV to say what it wants - even if not true
Excerpt:
Some have considered this comparison to Fox News unfair[1]:

Don Newman, CBC columnist and former host of Newsworld's
"Politics" attacked the idea characterizing Fox news in the U.S. as
"hugely polarizing." Fox "mainly spews out propaganda that is
dangerously misleading and often factually wrong....It
specializes in drive-by attacks and misrepresentations, and is
positively Orwellian at times, claiming to be 'fair and balanced' while
implying that its competitors aren't."

This is a reasonable
description of Fox News, but notice the distinction claimed to separate
SunTV from Fox: it is precisely the "misleading and factually wrong"
part. This is the part the CRTC gives them full license to do.


Mr Lavoie, who replaced Mr. Teneycke and is a former Mulroney insider,
claims the news will retain Sun's "provocative" tone. We are thus left
with an unapologetically politically right leaning 24 hour news station
intending to engage in provocative language with the ability to
misdirect or lie with impunity. That is a scary thing indeed.