Rex Murphy: It's not the CRTC that should decide whether Canadians can watch Fox (2023)

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The nature of the terms in the newspapers - unfortunately, too many of them - prevent me from reporting on Hillary Clinton's visit to Ottawa, the Empress of Republican Politics, the Terror of the Glass Ceilings. Even now, as I'm working on a hot laptop, a jet is flying the dreaded former presidential candidate to her fans in Ottawa to add all the class and fame to the Liberal Party's national convention. As I mentioned in oneoldest piece, your presence is sure to ignite this normally gray city in heroic celebration and civic pride.

On second thought, I suggest that only Meghan Markle shares the same fame and inspirational power.

However, other questions are raised. Can the CRTC take on the role of an active censor, making decisions about which TV stations are "permitted" to broadcast in Canada? He considers using his dark and elusive powerFox News ban?

Sage Whoopi Goldberg was on The View recently and insisted that the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler, the most despicable racist the world has ever known, was not racist and that - hold your stomach reading this - because Germans were white and Jews were shamefully persecuted and murdered were white, so it was not a "racist" crime, but according to Goldberg, just another sad example"Man's Inhumanity to Man".

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Ignorance rarely manifests itself in such a concentrated and total way. For someone who earns a very high salary by sitting at a table with others a little more informed than she is, to declare that the most manic, savage, dogmatic and fanatically racist movement in the history of the world, which, under the black flag of "racial superiority" , Haunted Inferno and killed six million people... for someone to announce the "Final Solution", the holocaust was not racism, it was a pit of ignorance we will never see again.

Ignorance rarely manifests itself in such a concentrated form

If the CRTC wants to offer freelancers a place of censorship, check out The View.

More specifically, why did they suggest TV jihad against Fox? To many who don't like Fox, who hate Fox, he is his own dark beast. And in an era of inflated and ferocious partisanship, hostility to the "not on your side" network has become a passion. However, one country's regulatory agency is not the perfect overseer, overseer, judge of political broadcasters in another country.

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If they were perfect supervisors, I would love to hear their opinions on CNN, CNBC, some of the biggest networks. In any comparison between Fox and MSNBC, the only challenge is how and on what logical basis can anyone claim the slightest superiority - in terms of message accuracy, tone, quality of hosts, political positioning or slaughter of guests to match opinion. of the guerrillas' inclinations of the hosts and networks.

Or CNN, the network catastrophe, the complete collapse of its beginnings decades ago. No CRTC, you shouldn't be thinking about banning Fox. More than you should consider banning CNN or CNBC. But if you pursue one, you must rightly and justly follow him.

Meanwhile, if you really want to act as judge and censor, how about taking a closer look at the arrival of incredible entertainment shows like Drag Kids, a sophisticated "cultural" offering from national broadcaster CBC. How much of the CBC's mandate encompasses this type of programming I leave to President Catherine Tait to determine. It would be very interesting to hear her opinion on this. It would be a much more useful exercise for her attention than writing bitter letters to the Leader of the Opposition.

Tait might even get the CRTC involved to distract them from the crazy hyperbole about Fox.

When it comes to which American shows Canadians want to watch, Canadians can make that judgment for themselves.

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