Canadian porn channel: Art? Or what?
p2pnet news view | TV:- What’s been around as long as civilization? Porn. Pornography.
Says Microsoft’s Encarta, “Pornography, films, magazines, writings, photographs, or other materials that are sexually explicit and intended to arouse sexual excitement in their audience. Deriving from the Greek words porn? (’prostitute’) and graphein (’to write’), the word pornography originally referred to any work of art or literature dealing with sex and sexual themes. Pornography is one of the most controversial forms of expression. Societies have long debated whether pornographic works should be subject to censorship, and the question of how to distinguish between artistic works and pornography has perplexed governments ever since they began to take freedom of expression seriously.”
In other words, pornography isn’t necessarily obscenity. But it still has the power to spark instant outrage and it’s one of the main weapons in the entertainment cartel anti-P2P, anti-file sharing armory.
The CRTC recently approved Northern Peaks, Canada’s first officially sanctioned pornographic video channel.
But. says an OpEd in the Calgary Herald, the porn channel is, “an abomination,” and “When I read your news article on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) decision to licence a pornography channel, my first thought was ‘What good are they?’ (The CRTC, that is),” posted Peggy Lynn Kelly in the Ottawa Citizen.
“I object to having my tax dollars run an organization that is either unable or unwilling to protect Canadian women from continued sexual degradation, objectification, and exploitation.
“Maybe it’s time to get rid of both of them, the CRTC and the pornographers.”
But the Montreal Gazette has a couple of interesting perspectives on the situation.
“Ironically, Northern Peaks’s programming will surely be more gender-balanced and ethnically diverse than any other Canadian product available,” it says, adding:
“And unlike the CBC, only those who wish to have the channel will have to pay for it.
“But if this is what it takes to dutifully fulfill the CRTC’s protectionist mandate, there’s little reason to keep this antiquated and impotent institution on life support any longer.”
pornographic video channel - CRTC-approved Canadian porn channel, August 19, 2008
Ottawa Citizen – Keep the porn channel out of Canada, August 26, 2008
Montreal Gazette – Network to give artists new exposure, August 25, 2008
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am
“But. says an OpEd in the Calgary Herald, the porn channel is, “an abomination,” and “When I read your news article on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) decision to licence a pornography channel, my first thought was ‘What good are they?’ (The CRTC, that is),” posted Peggy Lynn Kelly in the Ottawa Citizen.”
Another uptight prude who’s not getting enough…