"Should Canada Ban Fox News?" May 3, 2023 News Commentary - Bill Kelly
An LGBTQ rights group has asked the CRTC to ban Fox News from Canadian cable suppliers
An LGBTQ rights group has asked the CRTC to ban Fox News from Canadian cable suppliers because of, what they claim, are false and horrifying claims made by now former host Tucker Carlson regarding transgender individuals.
I’ve long since given up on trying to predict what the CRTC will do, but, I would suggest that banning Fox News from Canadian cable isn’t going to eradicate LGBTQ hate.
This is, in no way, a defense of Fox News; in fact, the product that the Fox network foists upon the public is not news, but manufactured and unfounded propaganda with heaping helpings of homophobia and racism and misogyny and the aforementioned Tucker Carlson was one of the worst, but not the only, messenger of those hateful divisive, and fictitious rants.
Carlson is gone from Fox, but like other deadly viruses, he will resurface in another form.
Banning Fox and their faux journalism from cable providers won’t stop their hateful and hurtful missives. There are plenty of other platforms for the haters to utilize.
We need to call them out, debunk and de-legitimize their lies and disinformation.
That’s the only way to eradicate the virus of hate and division they spread.