CBSC tickets radio hosts for coarse language towards police

OTTAWA – A radio talk show criticizing the local police force were deemed fair, but the coarse language used ran afoul of the broadcast codes, The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled.On a few occasions in May 2013, the hosts of Dupont le midi, a radio talk show broadcast on CHOI-FM (Radio X, Quebec City), discussed recent events involving the Service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ). In the first instance, the host, Stéphane Dupont, criticized police management for their reaction to a bomb scare at a flea market. He characterized them as good for nothing “assholes” who...