DID YOU WATCH CTV NATIONAL NEWS WEDNESDAY NIGHT? CTV News has uncovered a Conservative Party scheme to legalize the unauthorized swiping of items from television news broadcasts to be used (without permission) in political party attack advertising. Such unethical activity is explicitly illegal under current Canadian law. It constitutes theft of the intellectual property of news organizations produced for journalistic purposes, not partisan advertising. To eliminate that important distinction would blur the line between news and propaganda - undermining the integrity of news programming and editorial decision-making. This appears to be the latest Conservative perversion of democracy, right up there with the In-and-Out election financing scam for which the Conservative Party was charged and convicted, the robo-call voter suppression/electoral fraud scheme for which a Conservative operative was charged and convicted in Guelph, the Penashue violations in Labrador, the DelMastro trial in Peterborough, the $90,000 Mike Duffy/Nigel Wright fiasco in the Senate ... and on and on it goes. And heres the kicker - the Conservatives new rule to condone the misuse of television news materials will be embedded and rammed through Parliament in this falls Budget Implementation Omnibus Bill. What a disgrace!
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:20:01 +0000
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