Saturday, January 22, 2011

Well, Well, Well

UPDATED AND BUMPED: Listen to the Ron Breakenridge interview with Andrew Coyne (1/21/2011 10:01:00 PM) for more about this.
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Further to the "faggot" kerfuffle I wrote about here, I guess complaining gets results - sorta.

It seems the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) has received 250 letters complaining about the CBSC (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council) decision.
"Artists were among those who questioned the song's ban, including well-known gay Canadians such as Scott Thompson from comedy troupe Kids in the Hall.

“Shakespeare would be rolling over in his g-word,” Thompson told QMI Agency. Rick Mercer, host of CBC’s Rick Mercer Report, said, “The song doesn’t offend me, because it’s all about context, and it’s a character line spoken by an ignorant person who is jealous of a glam rock 'n' roll star.”"

The really precious part of it is many of the letter writers confused the CRTC with the CBSC. The CRTC is a government created agency charged with regulating the broadcasting and telecommunications industry. The CBSC, the body that made the decision to ban the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, is a voluntary organization, consisting of private broadcasters which sets standards for its members.

It's good to see the CRTC was perceived to be the agency that censors and that they were forced to read a massive pile of letters complaining about censorship, because the CRTC is indeed in the business of making decisions about what Canadians can and cannot be allowed to consume. In any case, the CRTC wants the CBSC to review its decision!!! There is hope yet!

By golly, one more notch in the conservatives' cane, this one. Sooner or later, the Liberals and Dippers will understand a) what censorship is and b) what conservatives are really all about - freedom and getting government out of our faces.

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