CRTC may ease ban on broadcasting false or misleading news

[CHIMO]

OTTAWA—The CRTC is proposing a regulatory change that would give Canadian TV and radio stations more leeway to broadcast false or misleading news.

Current regulations contain a blanket prohibition on broadcasting “any false or misleading news.”

The Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission wants to considerably narrow the scope of that prohibition.

It is proposing a ban on the broadcast of “any news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/922697--crtc-may-ease-ban-on-broadcasting-false-or-misleading-news?bn=1

[Posteritatis]

1. Wow, is that 'and' clause ever horrible

Wouldn't that greenlight, say, defamatory statements, since they don't threaten the physical safety of "the public?"

[HEyHEY]

2. Good old CRTC doing all it can to NOT work for Canadians.

Time to investigate them.

[glinda]

3. It is time NOW Canada to stop them. Stop them or you will not be able to and you will

become a hate-filled destroyed Nation. Please. They have ruined this Country. Harper must be stopped also in regards to election money. They are coming for all of your natural resources and your minds. They will destroy Canada.

[CHIMO]

4. Von Finckenstein says commission will withdraw 'false and misleading news' amendment

February 18, 2011 - 4:13pm — The Wire Report
OTTAWA—CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein says the commission tried to stall the amendment to its prohibition on false and misleading news for 10 years, but eventually gave into pressure from the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations when it proposed its amendments in January.

But now that the regulations committee has agreed to no longer pursue the issue, the chair says the CRTC will drop it.

“We never wanted to touch this thing. We put it forward because we were ordered to do it. We did what we thought would be a workable compromise,” von Finckenstein said in brief interview Friday at the Prime Time conference in Ottawa, organized by the Canadian Media Production Association.

http://www.thewirereport.ca/reports/content/12027-von_finckenstein_says_commission_will_withdraw_false_and_misleading_news_amendment

Looks to me that it is dead in the water.