Comments on: Attack ads: no permission needed http://rrj.ca/attack-ads-no-permission-needed/ Canada's Watchdog on the watchdogs Sun, 15 May 2016 11:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rick Bradley http://rrj.ca/attack-ads-no-permission-needed/#comment-1879 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:44:46 +0000 http://rrj.ca/?p=5010#comment-1879 “Certainly, these developments look bleak for those who don’t believe political parties should be able to steal [sic] material from the networks….”

Careful now.

Maybe you want to curry favour with network brass (e.g. CBC, CTV, Global) who aspire to get away with censoring references to their public content — whenever it inconveniently embarasses them by weakening their own propaganda. Maybe you’re not troubled by how unethical and contrary to the public interest such ambitions clearly are.

Whatever your reasons, it’s still pretty foolhardy to libel a party with an accusation of theft for nothing but fair dealing in content that has already been publicly broadcast.

Assuming you actually believe you’re not just spouting misleading nonsense, feel free to be specific — you maintain that the Conservative party “stole” video footage from Huffington Post?

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