Aboriginal parody "tasteless," but within the rules: CBSC

OTTAWA - An ad parody of the Lakota arthritis pain TV commercials broadcast on Astral Radio’s CKTF-FM Energie 104.1, Gatineau, did not violate the broadcasters’ code of ethics, says the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. The segment in question contained a mock interview with one of the program’s hosts posing as the spokesperson for the Lakota pain relief products. The other hosts questioned the “Lakota Indian” about his products. There were also references to eating “hot owl”, to his “fat barefoot wife” and to “that welfare bum with feathers”. A listener complained that the parody segment was discriminatory towards aboriginals. The Quebec...