By Frank Moher You will have heard that an American publishing house has plans for an edition of Huckleberry Fiinn in which the character “N***** Jim” is to be renamed “Slave Jim.” Now comes word that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that the song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits is unfit for […]
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Any ideas to declare?
By Frank Moher We’ve now seen, for the second time in recent memory, a journalist being harassed by Canadian border guards while trying to enter the country. Three years ago, American talk-radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones was detained for four hours, in the middle of the night, by Citizenship and Immigration Canada agents in […]
FUN no more
By Frank Moher I am back to listening to my local CBC Radio affiliate, the one out of Vancouver. This comes after a lovely respite, during which I listened instead to a talk-station called CFUN, whose hosts — besides offering news and commentary of substance — were, well, fun. Earlier this month, CFUN switched to […]
From Toronto? Here, have a CBC show.
By Frank Moher Jian Ghomeshi admitted at the top of a recent broadcast of the new CBC Radio arts show “Q” that some listeners were finding it a bit “Torontocentric.” Gosh, what a surprise. The CBC appoints yet another young man from Toronto as host of a program produced from Toronto, and it turns out […]
When it comes to hate, Imus is an amateur
By Frank Moher So, Don Imus has been fired from both his CBS and MSNBC gigs because he referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” Stupid? Yes. Racist? Certainly. A firing offence? I’d say so. Then again, Rush Limbaugh once told a black caller to “Take that bone out of your nose,” […]
Patriot games
By Frank Moher It’s been a rough couple of weeks for the on-air contingent of the so-called alternative media (and no, we’re not talking Air America). It began when the website of the Republic Broadcasting Network, a freedom-fightin’ radio and webcasting outfit from Austin, Texas, suddenly disappeared and was replaced with an announcement from the […]
