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Postby Jack Bennest » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:40 pm

Defending the faith
Ottawa Citizen

Published: Monday, September 08, 2008
Christians and members of other faiths complain that secular society has become not just contemptuous of believers but downright hostile. The experience of religious broadcasters in Ottawa suggests the complaint is well-founded.

The broadcasters are Christian, and they want to create a couple of radio stations that would appeal to their demographic. One proposal, for example, envisioned Christian-related music such as hymns and classical music, mainly for an older audience.

The proposals didn't fly with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Navigating the broadcasting bureaucracy is a complex business, and it's hard to say what what the CRTC was really thinking (the regulator declined to speak with a Citizen religion reporter.

But it's clear that the elites who occupy important policy-making decisions in Canada can be phobic about religion. In the 1990s, some CRTC commissioners expressed concern with religious programming in Canada by citing the experience in Bosnia and the Middle East where religion promotes intolerance.

Ottawa is not Tehran. A radio station that broadcasts easy listening hymns to backyard barbecuers in Kanata has no connection to stations that broadcast hate-filled sermons to listeners in Cairo slums. Canada has laws against incitement and hate propaganda.

It's ridiculous to lump all "religion" into one big, dangerous basket, without taking into account cultural, geographic or historical context. Guess we can thank Osama bin Laden and others who over the years have killed in God's name. The biggest victim of religious violence is, as always, religion itself.
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Postby Jack Bennest » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:47 pm

Another score for porn
Calgary Herald

Published: Saturday, August 16, 2008
It's an interesting comment on Canada today, that federal regulators seem so ready to give the go-ahead for a Canadian-made porn channel but in the past have been less than charitable to Christian television.

Last year, the CRTC rebuked Lethbridge religious television network The Miracle Channel for questionable fundraising tactics. It later denied the cable station's bid to rebroadcast its signal into Calgary and Edmonton markets. This year, however, the regulator believes the country has an appetite for more pornography and has licensed Edmonton-based Northern Peaks -- as long as the digital channel commits to 50 per cent Canadian content.

Northern Peaks' Shaun Donnelly is confident he will find a cable or satellite distributor to carry his channel, asserting there's a huge, unfulfilled market for local porn. "I've always found there's a real turn-on to watching and knowing it's people you could run into in the grocery store," he told Canwest News Service. No doubt he's right. But, was this the local culture the country's broadcast act was intended to foster?

It's not as if porn is hard to find, between neighbourhood adult stores, or what's a mouse-click away online; sex films, webcams, photos and pop-up ads of girls within the local area code, asking: "Are you lonely?"

Yet, this is the third porn channel the CRTC has approved since 2003. We offer no judgment on those who tune in to them. The CRTC, however, needs to contemplate the irony of its decisions, and at the very least, strive for a little more balance.
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Postby Mike Cleaver » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:37 pm

Canadian airwaves, be they radio or tv, belong to the public.
The license holders are there to serve the general public, not a specific racial, ethnic or RELIGIOUS demographic exclusively.
For example, multi-cultural licenses normally are granted to serve a number of ethnic minorities.
There are some exceptions, notably here in Vancouver where we have all Chinese (Mandarin and/or Cantonese) and Indo-Canadian stations.
So called Christian broadcasters have carried their share of hate-filled programs, many originating in the US but some from Canada.
Believe what you want.
Don't try to push those beliefs on others.
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Postby PMC » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:57 pm

Mike Cleaver wrote:So called Christian broadcasters have carried their share of hate-filled programs, many originating in the US but some from Canada.


Why does Global Vancouver run that stuff at 5:30am and then again after the morning show ? there must be good bucks to be made running it.

Send us your goodwill offering and we will pray for you etc...

Mike Cleaver wrote:Believe what you want. Don't try to push those beliefs on others.


AMEN BROTHER !!! :)

I support Existentialism, it helps me chase away christian bigots...for those unaware, I have travelled alot in the middle east, including places that get promoted within christianity. Other than being a tourist trap, there is not alot there, except hatred and bigotry.
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Postby jon » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:48 am

Mike Cleaver wrote:Believe what you want.
Don't try to push those beliefs on others.

Advertising, most talk shows (hosts, guests and callers), and some educational programming fits pretty comfortably in that category.

I think the real issue is hate-mongering. We have perfectly good laws in this country to deal with it. But, other than the B'nai B'rith, I don't see the necessary organizations in place to monitor and direct complaints in the proper manner to get things resolved.
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Postby Mike Cleaver » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:23 pm

The gay community is pretty quick to jump on any hate mongering directed its way.
For example: "Dr." Laura was given a hasty boot from CFRA in Ottawa after some of her anti-gay comments, based on complaints from the local gay community.
They're also quick to report the transgressions of the so-called "Christian" programs originating south of the border from such luminaries as Oral Roberts, Jerry Fallwell and a host of other "preachers."
But as Jon says, no one group has a better monitoring system than B'nai Brith.
They have people reading and listening and watching everything.
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Postby Victoriaradio » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:52 am

Mike Cleaver for Prime Minister! Thank you for your sane analysis Mike.
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Postby skyvalleyradio » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:51 am

Mike - nice to see a story about "Doctor" Laura geting the boot from a talk station! IMO, she is the most dangerous talk show host amongst many (Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh come to mind) I've listened to enough of her rants of homophobia, parenting & step-parenting, and common-law relationships to form an opinion of this hatemongerer. I make it a point to boycott any radio station (including 1410) that airs such crap.
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Postby PMC » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:20 pm

skyvalleyradio wrote:Mike - nice to see a story about "Doctor" Laura geting the boot from a talk station! IMO, she is the most dangerous talk show host amongst many


I agree... does she actually have a phd or is this some creative concept dreamed up by the providing station... I remember they ran her on QR in Calgary in the afternoon... perhaps a degree in basket weaving...karma, will come to her, and when it knocks on her door, it will be many a news person's top item :)
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Postby jon » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:43 pm

From drlaura.com:

EDUCATION

BS, Biological Sciences, SUNY Stonybrook, Long Island, NY

MS, M Phil, Ph.D. (Physiology), Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons), NY

Post-Doctoral Certification in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling, Human Relations Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor (MFCC), California, formerly in private practice for 12 years

Past member of the Biological Sciences faculty of the University of Southern California (five years) and the graduate Psychology faculty of Pepperdine University (eight years)

UCLA and UC Irvine Extension course instructor
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Note - BS is the U.S. form of BSc., as opposed to bovine excretement.
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Postby Mike Cleaver » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:45 pm

Which proves my favourite saying: "higher education leads to the death of common sense."
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