Comment "harsh", but didn't promote violence, CBSC finds

OTTAWA – A caller’s “hostile” comments on a Maritime radio show did not promote violence, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled.A listener complained that a comment made on the 'Maritime Morning 'broadcast on CHNI-FM (News 88.9, Saint John, New Brunswick) on April 4, 2008 was “a direct threat” to the show’s guest, and should not have been broadcast.The radio station responded that the remark was “just an example of the heated debates that sometimes occur in talk radio”, and that it did not believe that the caller had truly intended to promote violence.Paul Watson, the head of the...