Sun Media Corporation is asking the CRTC to force cable providers such as Rogers and Bell to carry Sun TV, and then to force you to pay for it through your monthly subscription bill. If the CRTC agrees, then Sun Media Corporation will pocket enough to continue broadcasting its right wing, pro-Conservative propaganda 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Visit the CRTC website to oppose the application (2012-0687-1 Sun News General Partnership). Deadline is February 27, 2013!
Start here:
Click this link to go to the CRTC website:
https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/Intervention/Submission-Soumission.aspx?lang=e&EN=2013-19&ET=N#SE0
Follow the steps.
Enter the following and click on “Next.”
- Choose “I agree”.
- Choose “Option 1″.
- Choose “2012-0687-1: Sun News General Partnership”.
- Choose “My Comments are in Opposition”.
Enter the comment:
(cut and paste, or edit the following)
I do not request to appear at the public hearing.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is explicitly biased and provides unbalanced coverage of issues. Canadians should not be forced to pay for this channel.
Continue:
- Choose “Do not want to appear”.
- Choose “I agree”.
- Choose “No” (you are not a designated representative).
- Enter your contact information.
- Select “I will be sending a copy of my comments to the applicant and to any other person that the Commission has directed. I agree to provide proof to the Commission upon request”.
- Click on Submit!
Check out what others have been telling the CRTC.
Comments
I do not request to appear at the public hearing.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is already available to nearly all Canadian cable and satellite viewers. Canadians should not be forced to pay for a channel they have chosen not to watch.
I do not request to appear at the public hearing.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is already available to nearly all Canadian cable and satellite viewers. Canadians should not be forced to pay for a channel they have chosen not to watch.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is already available to nearly all Canadian cable and satellite viewers. Canadians should not be forced to pay for a channel they have chosen not to watch.
I do not want to pay for Sun news – I do not agree with the way they cover news and how they transform information to their advantage.
Why can’t you let others have a different opinion – so much for free speech, eh guys?
What are you afraid of?
Don’t think I should be forced to pay for this horrible channel.
do not request to appear at the public hearing.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is already available to nearly all Canadian cable and satellite viewers. Canadians should not be forced to pay for a channel they have chosen not to watch.
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I do not request to appear at the public hearing.
I oppose Sun News Media’s application for mandatory distribution on analog and digital basic service in Canada (Reference #2012-0687-1). Sun TV is already available to nearly all Canadian cable and satellite viewers. In my view, Canadians should not be forced to pay for a channel they have chosen not to watch.
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I oppose the application of Sun Media Partnership (2012-0687-1) for mandatory distribution. Although the corporation ostensibly meets the criteria for this status, I feel mandatory status is neither appropriate nor edifying to Canadians.
The corporation has consistently shown its commitment to inciting controversy on public issues without appropriate journalistic standards, and fails to reflect Canadian values in doing so. The corporation has shown in its broadcasting a penchant for giving excessive airtime to extreme political and social pundits and obscuring said invitees’ qualifications and influencing interests, without any commitment to the ethics of self-disclosure of interests.
The corporation fails to advance public discourse through rational and factual means, and seems to do quite the opposite, attempting incite discord in public discourse by obscuring journalistic facts, using fallacious reasoning to “spin” issues, and attempting to give credence to ideas and arguments that would be otherwise minimized by first-rate, high-integrity corporations as overly extremist, fallacious, biased, non-peer reviewed, and/or dogmatic.
Though the 96 hours of “original Canadian content” may be true in fact, it is not of high enough quality or enough benefit to Canadians to warrant mandatory distribution. Further, it is a disreputable and polarizing influence on the public not worthy of status equal to other corporations of high journalistic integrity. Those who wish to seek out this corporation’s content should still be able to do so, but to make consumers effectively subsidize such a second-rate corporation would be a tremendous shame.