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Didn't Australia pull Fox News some time ago?
No, that was a lie spread by dimwitted political tribalists.
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Didn't Australia pull Fox News some time ago?
No, that was a lie spread by dimwitted political tribalists.
Gotta love the false news. lol It's true, Fox News was never banned.
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Love it or hate it [and many do] FNC still rules among the cable news channels south of the border. According to Forbes, in Feb primetime, FNC averaged 2.634M viewers, MSNBC 1.194M, CNN 774,000. Among the 25-54 crowd, FNC averaged 443.000, CNN 212,000, MSNBC 140,000.
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CRTC today issuedCall for comments regarding the continued appropriateness of authorizing the distribution of RT in Canada
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Love it or hate it [and many do] FNC still rules among the cable news channels south of the border. According to Forbes, in Feb primetime, FNC averaged 2.634M viewers, MSNBC 1.194M, CNN 774,000. Among the 25-54 crowd, FNC averaged 443.000, CNN 212,000, MSNBC 140,000.
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The BBC has taken to the so-called "Deep Web" in order to make its info available to Russians, who are being prevented from accessing the truth about what's really going on in Ukraine.
BBC directs readers to deep web as Russia blocks surging bbc.com
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The CBC is among many large networks that have been forced to stop reporting any news from inside Russia, after the Kremlin quickly passed an edict making it against the law to report what they term "fake news" about the Ukraine war. The penalty is an immediate 15 years in prison for relating any but Putin's side of the conflict.
"In light of this situation and out of concern for the risk to our journalists and staff in Russia, we have temporarily suspended our reporting from the ground in Russia while we get clarity on this legislation," a CBC statement reads.
It's just another crackdown on freedom that had been regained there after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But that doesn't mean they won't keep covering the story from the outside. You just won't get much reaction from Russians, because no Western reporter will be free to safely tell the truth about what's going on inside that autocratic dictatorship.
CBC and BBC suspend reporting from inside Russia in face of 'fake' news law, blocking of Western websites
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This will maybe motivate Canada and other countries that have pulled out of shortwave over the years to at least rebuild some shortwave transmitters for contingencies. RCI dismantled its shortwave array outside Sackville, New Brunswick several years ago, and sold off the land, so we have no capacity to restart shortwave transmissions the way the BBC has.
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From the Toronto Star:
Russian-language propaganda stations spread hate in Canada for Ukrainians, say critics
There are several Russian language shows on CHIN Radio, although I have no idea what they're saying. I'm hopeful they're on the right side of all this. But unless you speak the language, how can you tell? Is the station monitoring what's going out over its airwaves?
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Hackers have attacked the so-called "Buzzer" station, an infamous and very mysterious radio signal that's been coming out of Russia for decades. But what does the actual station do? No one in the west seems sure.
Who’s behind the Buzzer? The chilling mystery of Russia’s ‘ghost’ radio station
Meanwhile, in an almost unprecedented and stunning series of developments, several pundits have appeared on Moscow's heavily censored TV stations criticizing Putin's unconscionable foray into Ukraine. Some very rare moments, indeed, and perhaps the first sign of an internal revolt?
‘Another Afghanistan, but even worse’: First criticism of Vladimir Putin’s war on Russian state TV
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