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No Apologies Is The Balance
Friday, June 1, 2007
The Canadian media culture is one big boring leftwing monologue.
Oh, I know there are exceptions - but they are few and far between and, for the most part, they have to be very guarded in what they say, and certainly can't be provocative.
Canadian media operates under the bizarre view that "fairness" and "balance" are the key guiding principles of ethical journalism - setting us apart, of course, from Fox News and those hard right fanatics in America's talk-radio milieu.
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No Apologies Is The Balance
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Forget about the strident arrogance of such a view: the real problem with this attitude is that most of Canada's media elites actually believe they're own façade - that they are "fair" and "balanced" - even though everyone knows that what passes for "news" in mainstream media is anything but "fair" and "balanced".
Fairness in our media culture basically means that, for every minute a "conservative" speaks on radio or TV, the left gets at least ten minutes of "balance" to rebut them - and the conservative view is often just mentioned in order to editorialize about how extreme it is and how the author of the opinion should apologize.
This broadcast climate didn't just appear by accident. The heavy hand of bureaucratic management in the name of the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) had a lot to do with cultivating it.
The CRTC regulates radio and telecommunications in Canada. It is the gate-keeper of all things Canadian and one of its primary functions is to ensure that radio and TV stations carry a sufficient percentage of Canadian content ("Cancon").
On one level, "Cancon" sounds really good. I mean what's wrong with promoting the material of your own citizens?
We won't even get into the question of whether it is even in the public interest to have a government agency get involved in what ostensibly is a free market enterprise; the real problem with "Cancon" is that it is simply a front for leftwing content.
I mean, think about it: if "Cancon" really is what it claims to be then No Apologies should pass the grade no problems.
No Apologies is written by Canadians.
Produced by Canadians.
Presented and distributed by Canadians.
And yes, to the chagrin of my critics, I am...Canadian.
But would the CRTC sit idly by if a radio station started to broadcast our program?
The CRTC is pathologically bent towards the left. And that is why, whether it's the CBC, CTV, Global or TVO, if it's not left, lefter and leftist, if it doesn't fit into their politically correct purview, if it doesn't give credence to multi-culturalism, then it simply does not fit "Cancon" requirements - by the way this is what the CRTC calls "Communication in the public interest".
An entire constituency of Canadians who are proud and patriotic, but are not philosophically bent towards the left, are being sold a load of... you know what.
And to make matters worse, they have been subsidizing this reengineering with tax dollars while being frozen out of the media establishment.
Communications in the public interest means, at the very least, that Canadians who still hold to Judeo-Christian traditions and believe that conservative principles and values deserve wide public airing on radio and TV should have a media outlet too.
If the CRTC is truly interested in "balance," then it's about time they added one or two hundred conservative programs to the roster - but we'll settle for one at a time, starting with No Apologies.
No Apologies is unapologetic social conservative talk radio.
We...are the balance.
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Tristan Emmanuel |
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WARNED
Canada's Revolution Against Faith, Family and Freedom Threatens America by Tristan Emmanuel
This book is essential reading for both Americans and Canadians even though it is more particularly directed to our American friends. Both countries face a serious challenge to their cultures. This book exposes the radical exploitation of Canada at the hands of extremist activists, leftwing politicians and a plethora of crusading activist judges, who are using their status in Canada to get at America. Their aim is marriage. But the prize is America. They want to use marriage as a weapon to systematically destroy the Judeo-Christian civilization of North America, but to do that they need America to "go gay". Gay "marriage" will open up America to the rest of the demands of the homosexual political movement. Everything from school curriculum to parental rights, adoption, the age of consent and religious freedoms will be up for grabs once gay "marriage" is made legal in America. Unless socons in both countries unite and work to resist these political opponents, we can kiss our continent good-bye.
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