Manifesto for Quality News and Information

"lets get it done"

"The situation cannot get anymore blatant. Corporations are not anti-government. It makes the laws to protect them. Time to start using the 'f' word as defined by Mussolini - Fascism"

"OUI JE SUIS EN PARFAIT ACCORD AVEC VOTRE DÉDUCTION D'ANALYSE ET ON LE RÉALISE MÊME PARFOIS DANS LES MÉDIAS DANS UNE SITUATION QUI NOUS CONCERNE."

"KEEP CANADIAN MEDIA INDEPENDENT!"

"Protect and promote the diversity of voices in programming and news."

"Book sales stores are controlled by a tiny group antethical to Canadian interests. We need more media outlets and less media control of TV, radio, newspapers."

"Re: Diversity of Voices Proceeding CRTC 2007-5 URL: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Hearings/2007/n2007-5.htm From: Ian D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - http://idallen.com/ Affiliations: private citizen, Internet consultant, College Professor CRTC reference number: # 57664 1. As can be see"

"I completely agree with the above statement."

"I hope that we do not go the way of the US Propoganda Media news. I would like honest news reports. This media empire needs to be shut down for good to let honest reporting of news to happen."

"This is one of the most important issues facing not only Canadians but all industrialized nations. We need transparenty and non-bias in or news and information. We are watching and waitng."

"You give us what we want, or the internet WILL."

"I do not condone the consolidation of media because it results in the consolidation of thought. The media carries great hegemonic cultural power, and I would like to think Canadian culture is more than a right-wing shopping mall. Thank You"

"The media should all be seized by the Canadian peoples as the proceeds of crime and the media personel should be reminded of the Nuremberg decisions for their complicity in the cover up of mass murder and other forms of criminal racketeering."

"I concur."

"The government must do more to promote quality media by ensuring diversity in the media market, and ending the near-monopoly control of several markets by one or two major players."

"This is a trend that has been growing worse over th years. Pierre Elliot Truedau saw the ramnifications of this - and tried to prevent it. Now we are faced with an Orwellian situation and sadly, few realize it."

"I am pleased to sign this petition and especially the statement that "[t]he quality of our democratic life is intimately linked to the quality and diversity of voices in information." Power to the "awakened herd!""

"On ne peut qu'être pour la vertu, mais est-ce qu'un voeu vertueux suffit ?"

"The Broadcasting Act should be amended to protect and promote the diversity of voices in programming and news. Specifically, CBC should be required to give access to local community producers who focus on social issues of their priority rather than CBC's news prodcers."

"we need more than a manifesto"

"I strongly support the need for a diversity of news and information sources and oppose media concentration."

"We need free decentralized media control in our country, since it is the primary source of information for most people (unfortunately). We have seen the effects of the distortion and misinformation of news especially in the US. However we Canadians are not so ignorant and most of us are waking up."

"The CRTC is behaving as a business lobby..."

"It is vital for all of us to have as many sources of information as possible, so that we can even begin to understand what is going on in the world - rather than having our understanding limited by the power and money of vested interests."

"The government should break up these large media conglomerates. There should also be legislation to ensure that inaccurate or misleading reporting and political bias in reporting is subject to review and public reprimands by a jury of academics specializing in media studies."

"I want my voice and the voices of all my fellow citizens to be equitably represented in the Canadian media."

"Without access to a variety of sources, citizens cannot be expected to make proper educated decisions on any given topic. Our access to pluralistic information is paramount to the workings of democracy!"

"We need better and more diverse reporting in Canada. The CRTC must play a role in fostering a media environment with more media sources not fewer."

"It should be the function of government and government agencies to protect the interests of the citizenry and not just those with recourses to lobby. The only way the CRTC can be effective and useful is to ignore the wants and desires of media conglomerates in order to protect and promote the inter"