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PTBC J-Log

A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Followup #3—Shaw Cable / Star Choice says:  “few watch Fox News”; yet “thousands of complaints”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 03 2009 at 08:56 AM

A reader emailed to update me on his complaint to Shaw Direct (what used to be called Star Choice) satellite service, and its agenda-ridden choice to suddenly make Fox News Channel an “opt-in” channel even for those who already opted-in, and their ridiculous claim that it’s (alternatively) because of “the great unrest among the majority of our customers”, or because “thousands” have complained about Fox News, (and yet “nobody has complained about the CBC”), or any of a number of reader-reported excuses, none of which make the slightest sense whatsoever ...

NOTE:  For context and background and to catch up, read these previous blog entries:

•  Conservative Party of Canada being led by effete blowhards?  Cancel your membership.

•  Shaw Direct (formerly Star Choice) Satellite appeases leftists in anti-Fox News Channel gambit

•  Followup #1 on Shaw Direct satellite service’s left-wing-appeasing, anti-Fox-News Channel option

•  Followup #2—Shaw Cable / Star Choice says:  “Nobody complains about the CBC!”

•  (Only somewhat related) Defense Department allegedly screws military out of desperately-needed $300 MILLION last year

He caught them in a great big bit of agenda-ridden bullcrap, and included his email to Shaw/Star-Choice.  Here’s an excerpt:

Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:15:05 -0400
From: Brian J___
Subject: fox news- cbc- star choice
To: ProudToBeCanadian.ca


[...]  I called your “representative” immediately, and indicated that I wanted to receive Fox News.

I then asked the representative why Fox News was being censored (removed from the guide). His response was “there are few people who watch Fox News so it wasn’t a big deal”. He then suggested that I “go to “cbc.ca” to read about the story in question”. He then added that “thousands and thousands of people complained about Fox News”.

How many people complained about Fox News to Star Choice?

How is it possible that thousands and thousands of people can complain about Fox News when according to the “representative” only a few people watch the network?

[...]

Meh.  “Thousands”, “few”;  potato, potahhto. 

I’m going to switch to either Bell TV, Telus TV, or our local cable company, Delta Cable (owned by Eastlink), all of which (eastern Canadians can add Rogers to that list) happily offer Fox News Channel without consumers having to “opt-in”, as Shaw customers now have to,  much as they have to with Shaw’s many xxx hardcore gay and straight porn channels. 

In fact it reminded me of this great newspaper ad that Delta Cable ran when the then-Liberal government finally unbanned Fox News Channel from Canada (with the help of extreme pressure from PTBC and its readers), and allowed it to be broadcast in what I always thought was our free and free-speech country. 

They refer to “Ottawa”, but of course that was the LIBERALS
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I wrote it up with this blog entry at the time: 
Fox News Channel hitting Canadian suburbia

The Liberals were, at the time, trying desperately to remain in power, and were actually desperate enough to court the conservatives of Canada;  and by unbanning Fox News Channel, they were of course simply trying to appease us.  MPs were always able to watch Fox News Channel in the Parliament buildings (only in the Parliament buildings), so they knew it allowed conservative thoughts to leak out into the consciousness of viewers, and that literally freaked them out, since Canadians had never experienced that before, and that arrangement was working out wonderfully.  image image

I of course voted Conservative anyway, only to be told recently by the genius Conservative “strategist” Geoff Norquay and Minister of Defense and TV, Peter McKay, that Canadians should cancel their Fox News Channel subscriptions, thereby fostering this obedient move by Shaw/Star-Choice. 

 


Posted by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 08:56 AM
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