More on the CRTC and SunTV

[mijopo]

As  a followup to my post a couple of weeks ago about the CRTC and SunTV, I thought I'd post some follow up. It seems the proposed rule change was rejected and, of more interest to me, consider how Robert Kennedy Jr. has (misre)presented the story.

It's pretty incredible how wrong he gets it, especially the part about how loving and serene and

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[tridus]

That's business as usual at the CRTC. It's an agency stuffed to the gills with broadcast & media insiders, serving the broadcast & media industries through regulation.

They've been screwing stuff up for years. Why do you think Canadians pay among the worlds highest prices for among the worlds shoddiest wireless services? Or why Internet is heading the same way? Or why TV in Canada is such an overpriced joke compared to other places?

The only difference lately is that they hit a nerve with UBB and the public woke up. Much like all bureaucracies, they completely wither in the face of public scruitiny, because no sane politician is going to defend the CRTC and their best buddies Bell & Rogers against an angry public with an election on the horizon. Without political backing, the CRTC is a defenseless target.

(The same thing happened with the HRC's section 13, which had a 100% conviction rate until they tried to pin it on Maclean's and suddenly faced the glare of the national media asking "just what is this kangaroo court anyway?" That, and Rogers' well-funded lawyers who were more then eager to be found guilty and then go to a real court. Quite different from the little guy the HRC usually likes to pick on.)