Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kill-Obama TV satire lands CBC in hot water

A joke about Barack Obama being assassinated and other controversial humour from a satirical TV show has landed the French-language CBC a scolding from the broadcast regulator. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission declared in a ruling yesterday that Radio-Canada breached licence conditions last year during its satirical New Year's Eve show. It ordered an apology.

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