Complaints about Sun News interpretive-dance interview overwhelm watchdog (Quebec)

CHIMO

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Tue Jun-28-11 07:32 PM
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Complaints about Sun News interpretive-dance interview overwhelm watchdog (Quebec)

A Canadian broadcast watchdog says it has received a record-setting number of complaints from viewers about a recent Sun News TV interview.

Canadian Broadcast Standards Council national chairman Ron Cohen says his organization has received more than 4,100 complaints about a June 1 interview between host Krista Erickson and Quebec-born dancer Margie Gillis.

The council typically receives about 2,000 complaints in an entire year.

�It's the most individual complaints we've received about a single incident,� Mr. Cohen said in a telephone interview from Ottawa on Tuesday, noting that the number is only surpassed if petitions are included.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/complaints-about-sun-news-interpretive-dance-interview-overwhelm-watchdog/article2078995/

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Tue Jun-28-11 07:49 PM
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1. They should send the surplus complaints to Krista Erickson via

singing telegram.

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arcane1

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:40 PM
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2. Am I the only one who read that article...

and found nothing in its content to indicate WHY people were complaining so much?

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valerief

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:57 PM
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4. I couldn't tell if they were complaining about the twinkie or the dancer.

I hope it was about the bully twinkie and I think it might have been since it was apparently censored.

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CHIMO

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:02 PM
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5. Well

Have a look at the interview.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1016306--sun-news-interview-elicited-record-complaints-says-watchdog

You can find the connection at the bottom of the page.

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valerief

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:52 PM
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8. I had watched the video and the comments are mixed (damage control in action), so I'm not sure.

Edited on Tue Jun-28-11 09:55 PM by valerief

I just assume since the article didn't mention the complaints were anti-Sun, they must be anti-Sun.

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valerief

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:52 PM
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3. What a twat that twinkie is. Is Sun the Fox of Canada?

Edited on Tue Jun-28-11 08:58 PM by valerief

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/dance/a-lack-of-compassion/971454253001

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CHIMO

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:05 PM
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6. Yep

We call it Fox North! I think their plan is to take over Fox.

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valerief

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:50 PM
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7. Thought so. Man, that blonde bully was ANNOYING to no end. nt

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