More Press Support Winnipeg Sun

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Today there was an article by CHARLES ADLER of the Winnipeg Sun that supports our position.


WHoohooo!


More press means more awareness.



btw I did not want to post the link. Not sure if it's allowed here (Been in the reading group once too many times) :o



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Freedom crushed in name of CanCon

By CHARLES ADLER -- Winnipeg Sun

It is always amazing to me how many Canadians are willing to understand freedom when the government tries to squelch it. If you like the best possible diversity in quality programming, live in the United States and subscribe to cable or satellite services. If you live in this country, where few things are more complex than the inferiority complex, you are legally obliged to settle for Canadian cable and satellite services. They must carry a lot of garbage that is labelled Canadian content and, consequently, the Canadian version of HBO is just a very poorly diluted version of the real thing. Fox News Channel, the best in North American TV news and talk, is not yet available in Canada.

When I was in Boston last week, I watched many other great American channels that are not available here, unless one wants to live on the edge of the law. The Supreme Court has now made it official. The airwaves have been leased to some large companies who have a legal right to keep the skies free of competitive, albeit superior, American clutter.

Now the need to disclose. I have contractual links to at least two companies which are vitally interested in protecting the status quo. Does this put me in conflict of interest? Not really.

It is good business for executives of broadcast corporations to hire contract players like me (I am but a lowly content provider). So what if I don't always share their views. It keeps things spicy. Think of me as a Canadian jalapeno.

Canadians should be free to subscribe to U.S. services such as DirecTV the same way just as they are free to my favorite American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. I pay $59 a year to have it on my computer at all times. And I am thrilled the government isn't trying to prevent me from doing that, yet.

As a former disc jockey, I grew up loathing Canadian content regulations. It forced me to play records (no CDs back in 1974) that were on the air simply because they were recorded or produced or written or sung by Canadians. Doing a late night show in Calgary, I knew full well that many Albertans were smart enough to find American radio stations on the AM band that didn't have to "protect their cultural industries."

I always felt I could not give my listeners the best possible music, because the government was handcuffing me. Virtually one out of three records had to be Canadian. I used to bunch up the so called CanCon or Beavers as I would call them in the final hour of my show, when there were far fewer listeners available. I was only 18 and thought it was the intelligent way to get around the stupid red tape of government.

One day my boss told me the station could be severely fined for not living up to the spirit of the Canadian content regulation, and I thought to myself, "My Lord ... What a bush-league country this is turning into."

I have always thought the government of this country was smaller than the heart of the people it represents. That's what continues to keep me here. If ever I start to believe this government is truly representative of the people, I may have to become a refugee for the second time in my life.

My parents brought me here from eastern Europe during the height of the cold war. Soviet tanks marching over our fellow Hungarians was a lot tougher to take than the concept of RCMP officers ripping out satellite dishes.

But the concept is the same.

Stamping out freedom of expression is never going to be popular with the public. The yearning for freedom can never be be eliminated by the barrel of a gun or by a judge's gavel.

If the little megalomaniacs who run the country truly want us to soar like the eagles, they must remove their talons from our eyeballs.

http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/adler.html

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Just want to avoid problems with the mod's . I was not sure if it was allowed.


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Hi Guys,

Sure its allowed. We can use all the GOOD NEWS we can get these days.

In case anyone wonders there is no problem posting either links or articles when it concerns any legal-rights issue. What we do not want is links to sites that sell products so do not hesitate to post newspaper links or articles. Its often better to post the article (but include the date please) because often the articles are gone in a day or two.

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