Christina Lawand: Busted

Ms. Lawand is a disgrace and a further reason why the CBC ought to be sold.

The CBC makes me want to pull my hair out!

...relax folks, what you are seeing is the making of a new GG...

LMAO tomax7 - good one. Don't encourage her...

SHOCKING ??
Not really. The CBC has been the QUEEN OF SPIN (QOS) for decades. We are just aware of the propaganda now, thanks to the Internet and blogs. Pravda had/has nothing on the CBC when it comes to "slanted news". The Internet and blogs has the potential to do, and is doing, mucho damage to the MSM. How long before there is an attempt to "control" the citizens of the world's new news source ? Has there not been talk, already, of The United Nations controling/taxing the www in order to "protect" the people from "harm" ? One World Governance, Earth Charter, Oak Lake Manitoba here we come !!

I think that within the CBC culture, "getting the PM" is a way of scoring points. It's a way of looking good, getting ahead. The CBC, like Hezbollah, has its own internal logic. Nevertheless, what this reporter did was contemptible. She should be ashamed. And so should the CBC.

I am so damn mad I sent a formal complaint to the cbc and copy to the crtc. I know it won't do any damn good, but I had to do something.

Come now, where are our lawyers? I believe I have actually suffered harm from this and deserve to be compensated.

Class action suit, anyone? Let's bankrupt the CBC!

I think Harper should consider a lawsuit. It would draw attention to the blatent bias and destroy any journalistic integrity Christina still had with Canadians.

Financial bankrupt would match the moral bankruptcy that is cbc now. Be done with government owned, operated media, bad idea right from the start.

This is precisely the same as when the majority of the Canadian media took PM Campbell's "An election is no time to discuss serious issues" quote completely out of context. That show of bias ruined her career and led to 13 years of Liberal waste. Anyone who's seen that whole segment knows that she said that an election is not the only time to discuss serious issues and that serious issues could not possibly be debated effectively in such a short timeframe.

Let's not let this example overshadow the other blatant media laziness that came out of that same press conference. Reporters are too lazy to ask for clarification when PM Harper mentions a cabinet minister whose name sounds like another cabinet minister. Forget context for a second -- he was blatantly misquoted. More at my blog.

All this for only $1 Billion a year! Pay your taxes. Shut your mouth.

I was so angry that I sent a Email off to the CBC(I know it's useless)and thier Ombudsman (Accuracy,Fairness and Integrity)asking for a full apology in Prime time.
I know I'm barking at trees but it felt good.

This is just as bad as that infamous "Heil Harper" clip the CBC produced during the campaign.

While we're on the topic of the much-loved CBC, what the heck is with the esteemed public broadcaster's obsession with sex lately? Nearly every evening they show some sort of documentary on various sexual themes. Makes me sick that our tax dollars support this crap. Thank God I have satellite TV!

Pay your taxes, don't complain, blindly believe and absorb the liberal slime/propaganda they shove at you as many other suckers have done and continue to do...

Sorry, not me.

Stephen needs to cut the CBC off from the government teat, and fast.

Perhaps in the future, someone could find Ms. Lawand's email address so we could discuss the issue with her directly, or failing that, the address for the CBC ombudsman. (It seems to have hit a snag....it won't display properly)

Quel Surpris.

The MSM constantly makes a big deal of poll results. They use them to; (1)create controversy, (2)make claims on the direction gov't policy SHOULD take, (3)make or break political careers, (4)make Canadians feel quilty, and more. Since these are all very serious motives, I was just wondering;

HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN RAW POLLING DATA ??

IS POLLING DATA EVER INDEPENDENTLY AUDITED ??

HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN A LIST OF THOSE POLLED ??

HAS ANYONE EVER CHALLENGED THE WAY QUESTIONS ARE PUT ??

Just wondering, as the MSM always presents polling data as some kind of GOSPEL TRUTH, you know, acurate to within blah, nineteen times out of blah blah. Just my opinion, but maybe, just maybe, most polls are a HOAX.

Stephen Taylor seems to have a lot of free time on his hands. This was nothing more than a convenient, five second sound bite that summarized the position of the government. Nothing was mentioned that this was an answer to any particular question, it was simply preceded by a comment by Lawand:

“And while Elsaadi Daad was invited to deliver her message directly to the foreign affairs minister, Stephen Harper clearly wasn’t swayed.”

Followed by Harper: “I’m not concerned or preoccupied in any way with reaction within individual communities. I think that reaction is very predictable.”

So? Is that bad? Is it a lie?

Perhaps if they used something from the second answer on Taylor’s clip:

“...they can’t and shouldn’t guide all of our decisions...”

Is that better?

Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Just as a sidenote to my original comment (sorry), the clip I was talking about with the misquoting is in Stephen's video. It's when he said that "they met with Minister MacKay and Minister Verner" -- but some dipsticks reported that it was Minister Bernier. I've written to the Ottawa Sun to complain. Accuracy is just as important as neutrality.

This is nothing new, nothing new at all, it's been going on for decades as far as I know. My contention, and stated here and elsewhere, is that we are lied to and deceived by omission. The sleaze b sleaze has been doing this for years, it's common practice. I first became aware of this deception from an inebriated journalist friend of mine, and a high up one, years ago. The key here is they never really lie, they slant the real meaning by omission. Today you can take practically nothing reported in the MSM as accurately describing a situation or the meaning in which it was intended. I could almost guarantee you that if you went back over news reports prior to the last Federal election that almost every single report by the sleaze b sleaze slanting was an issue. Every single one.

I forgot to mention the Reutergate story before this thread, if true, it’s a prime example.

What a way to start: "While the PM met with his caucus a safe distance away, the protesters came to share their fury -- ("Harper, Harper, Shame on You!") -- angry the Prime Minister refuses to call an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East. (Leb.woman: "and burning the children, and killing innocent people...that's wrong and this has to stop!")

Gee, what's THAT about? It's so non-partisan I can't even tell what point it's making.

Loved her take on the Prime Minister's press conference: "When asked about today's civilian deaths Harper responded without mentioning them."

No! You mean...his words were different words than the ones some reporter wanted him to say? Oh, no. Oh no, no. No. He's really crossed a line this time.

By the way, massive plaudits and kudos and every other word like that to Stephen Taylor and the Blogging Tories for that excellent and important presentation. There's the front lines, folks.

Western Canadian:
I forgot to mention the Reutergate story before this thread, if true, it’s a prime example.

Indeed...

Over at LGF, Charles runs an explosive expose on al-Reuters doctoring photos from Beirut. The implications of such deceit are staggering...
( No, just SOP... )

I'm livid, but that's worth nothing. The twits in the media, CBC (PRAVDA revisited)in particular have to be called on this immediately. The government will have to demand a public accounting for this blatant manipulation of facts and truth. The scum in the media are not only debasing the Prime Minister, they are taking all of us for fools. The kicker here is the boors are not even good journalists, good journalists do not operate that way. Let's demand apologies from both the goon journalists and their employers. Oops, in the case of CBC, that's us, we are their employers. Lovely.Damn them all.

This might be bad for your health Liz, but stay mad. This one's gonna give.

CTV, at times, well, we know, it's like they sort of can't help it -- it's in their very makeup, and hair -- but at least they showed the whole press conference.

CBC's take is " Strombopopolous is chomping at the bit, so we'll just sum it up for you on your own dime: Harper-Bush-Dead-Children..."

Huzzah...

JamesHalifax: This is the CBC Ombudsman'a (aka Ombudstoady) e-mail address: Ombudsman@cbc.ca.
By all means write to him; he needs to have his inbox innundated with complaints about this one. Unfortunately, he worked for both the CBC and in the journalism program at Ryerson before he was asked back by the CBC to take the position of ombudsman.

There is a clear conflict of interest here, but who has any scruples about that? Certainly, conflict of interest and lack of integrity in standards of journalism have never caused the CBC any second thoughts.

I've been monitoring and writing to the CBC since the late '70s. They've been at this cat and mouse game for a long time, I'm sure long before I became "media-savvy" and began to notice glaring discrepancies in issues I am well-versed in and which they massacred, either by reporting faulty information, misrespresenting information, and by simply ommitting information they didn't want the public to know about.

Keep writing to them, no matter how discouraging. There needs to be a "paper/cyberspace trail" so that it can never be said by them, "We didn't know. We thought our public was happy with what we were doing."

CBC = Crap Begets Crap: Scum of the First Order. What did we do to deserve this? 'Asleep at the wheel, I guess. This is another wake-up call.

PS--JamesHalifax: If you find Christine Lawand's e-mail address at Fortress CBC, please post it. (I don't know about you, but I find navigating the CBC Web site to be like walking into a multi-room maze, designed to make sure that you're never quite sure to find what you're looking for. Once you've found it, good luck trying to find it again; it seems to me like they move things around and disappear the item you just saw the other day...hmmm...where could it be now...? Like the CBC, itself, not user-friendly.)

I too, wrote the CBC ombudsman with my concerns (I tried to stay calm?)

Isn't it interesting how no e-mail addressess are to be found for the reporters - gee - almost like they don't want any. That way, they are free to lie in their stories, insulated as they are by our tax dollars.

The sad thing is that the latte drinkers in downtown Toronto will watch the CBC and think that this is actually what happened. No wonder urban legends become gospel truth!

I found an address for the national which I guess is second best to the reporter herself. Maybe if we all write and let them know that they are busted, they might change.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyway, here is the address - let's let them know we are on to their lies.

http://www.cbc.ca/national/yourturn/index.html

there's nothing wrong with this piece in the least. good editing allowed us to get the thrust of the piece quickly. harper supports the israeli invasion of lebanon regardless of which minority communities support or reject his position. taylor's propaganda is merely an attempt to distract his readers from the real guts of harper's foreign policy. many canadians don't agree with our government's position as is our right to do so. an election will quickly indicate the public's postion on harper's decisions. i think this is what conservatives fear the most. "moral clarity" may cost harper dearly

thankas for the comment jeff. Which department of the CBC do yo work in?

Jeff,

Not actually true. The piece ignores Harper's comments that he thinks the jewish community AND arab communities reactions are predictable. The report showed him not meeting with the rep, although he commented that he wants to hear all sides and points out that prominent RICH memebers of the jewish community are now supporting him, without his disclaimer that he isnt looking at the polls.

Ther is a shift in this report.

Now the bad luck of Harper is that he gave long winded answers that dont play well on TV and then just at the end he lets out this exasperated 2 or 3 liner. Well, sorry but SH should either find a better way to get a good quote in for what he WANTS to say. Or dont say something open to misinterpretation in a quotable manner.

Dont assume the media will carry your message properly so only give them what you want. That is why he doesnt do scrums etc etc, he just proved his own policy.

Lawand twisted the report, clear as a Sunday church bell, but Harper should know better than to give her the last quote, the words "I dont care" should never ever cross a Prime Minister's lips, no matter what the context. Media relations 101.

All that being said, write to the ombudsman because she didnt capture the essence of his answers or the governments position, bad reporting and Harper should think again about getting his talking points straight.

thanks for the comment jeff. Which department of the CBC do yo work in?
Posted by: pete at August 6, 2006 09:34 AM

obviously the Propaganda Dept.

The actual essence of the Harper's message was that he was neutral and was not taking the side of either party in the conflict but looking out for CANADA's best interests.

That is the message they need to hone and perfect because most Canadians dont give a fig for what happens there. They want to be "fair" and most importantly "uninvolved".

Harper needs to state his policies in terms of Canada's interests and hammer that point. He also needs to find a point of difference with the Americans on the larger issue, but that is a secondary point.

This needs to be about supporting the Lebanese AND Israeli people's ability to live in peace which means a stable Lebanese state where the Lebanese government is the only power in the country. Which means ultimately the disarming of Hesbo and the withdrawl of israeli troops.

Once again this needs to be boiled into 30 second talking points......just the nature of the game.

Maybe we should be writing to Gerry Schwartz and guaranteeing him an audience of 42% of Canadians and growing, if he agrees be our Rupert Murdoch and start a new station:

Beaver Canada - Damn the CBC

Don't know what the truth is re acceptance of new or recent immigrants to our land taking to our streets wearing their religion and telling our government what to do. I don't like it, they are still carrying baggage from whence they came. Instead of settling in and learning how we live and conduct our lives they are fighting the old wars they brought along with them. Simple solution:LEAVE, and godspeed.

Don't know what the truth is re acceptance of new or recent immigrants to our land taking to our streets wearing their religion and telling our government what to do. I don't like it, they are still carrying baggage from whence they came. Instead of settling in and learning how we live and conduct our lives they are fighting the old wars they brought along with them. Simple solution:LEAVE, and godspeed.

Jeff - you are obviously pasteing and copying yourcomment on lots of blogs so I will "paste and copy" my answer to you which I responded to on another blog.

"there's nothing wrong with this piece in the least. good editing allowed us to get the thrust of the piece quickly"

Jeffy, Jeffy, Jeffy - it is obvious from your comment that you are a CBC watcher - therefore, you have been brainwashed. There is no hope for you until you seriously stop watching the CBC.

For you to say this was "good editing" really shows how far gone you really are. This piece was a lie and the "good editing" was an attempt to paint an inaccurate picture of the truth.

Jeff, sweetie - get your head out of your behind and wake up to the facts instead of the drivel you are being fed on CBC. They are lying to you. Watch, listen and learn!

So now "moral clarity" is a bad thing?
Jeff, if as you surmise the best Prime Minister we have had in many years could lose an election over being clear, then Canadians deserve what they get.
Stephen Harper knows the difference between right and wrong, thats the point that most people seem to miss.

The appropriate way to deal with this is to develop a "secret agenda" to cut all government funding of the CBC after the CPC wins a majority.

Just quietly turn off the taps. The CBC can then live or die based on its commercial viability.

The LPC rats will jump off the sinking ship as soon as their favorite food (cash) appears to be in short supply.

Toronto,

the natural home/abode/HQ of the Canadian Broadcorping Castration,

is captured/invested by hedonism/carnal

exhibitionism/sexual perversion/black humour, etc. ...-

Toronto comes alive with Caribana parade
CTV.ca - 16 hours ago
The Caribana parade once again brought Caribbean culture to Toronto, as an estimated 1.2 million people watched Saturday's procession of colourful costumes. "Every year I want to do this," said Lance Waddell. ...

I struggle with understanding why this is such an 'outrage'? The media (all media, print - electronic) take things out of context all the time because (a) either the reporters don't understand the issue (b) the media outlet does have a bias. Don't tell me that back in the day that ALL of Conrad Black's Canadian papers DIDN'T have a bias against the left?

All this tells me is that the criticism of Stephen Harper's positon on the Middle East is hitting home, otherwise his apologists would not be creating slick online multi-media presentations such as this. - Does it make sense to be so wound up because the CBC trew a little 'fly poop' in the right wings pepper. This proves my contention about the right in Canada once again: 'rightwingers can sure dish it out, (but they can't take it!)

As a consumer ...we MUST email ALL those companies who advertise on the CBC...telling them that we will NO LONGER buy their product...THAT and ONLY THAT will get CBC's attention...Example: I just saw a Honda commercial... Honda will be getting an email from me...I'm on the hunt...

As someone who worked in television for ten years, this was a blatant bit of dishonest reporting and editing.

A clear breach of integrity.

Anyone who thinks this was okay, I wouldn't trust you in my house.

Helen, good idea, let's all do it.Lack of funds might just be the WMD to dislodge their heads from their asses.

Just target those who advertise on the news programs. Focus rather than a general boycott.

It was a twisted report, it would be interesting to see her defend herself on something equivalent to Reliable Sources. But we dont do that up here, much too nice and you wouldnt get invited your friends next party or barbeque. Yes virginia, it is that "clique-ey".

Yes the C anadian B rainwashing C orporation has done it again,doing what it does best as the Idealistic voice of the new Canada(read that as Kanuckistan).
As long as the Canadian mainstream population remains lazy and posessed of no initiative to know what is really going on out there in the world around them, then they will always fall prey to the unscrupulous reporting of the likes of the CBC and their running dogs.
As sad as all this is,one can't help but wonder if good men like Stephen Harper won't finally get discouraged enough to throw up their hands and say 'enough' and leave Canada to sink or swim under whatever dillusional guise she should choose for her sorry self.
You couldn't fault the man and it would truly be a great loss for this most precious country .But then I fear this country may already be lost.
No! we must save it; for it is worth saving.
And good men like Stephen Harper are worth supporting.

Helen - Hunt for the rest of us. Please post the names and email addresses of CBC sponsors. I promise I'll follow up if you do. (As you might surmise, I don't watch CBC so have no clue who advertises there.)

I forwarded a copy of the video to the CBC ombudstoady. I agree with new kid: Even though the CBC will treat your criticism with an utter lack of respect, the "paper" trail's the thing. It also keeps them busy: I know they've had to hire staff to try to handle the complaints. The ombustoady always used to respond himself--unsatisfactorily, but it was from the horse's (ass's) mouth. Now, other entities respond: Don't erase that email from an unfamiliar source too quickly. It may be the CBC hack (not!) responding to your concern.

B Hoax, like new kid, I've been monitoring and challenging CBC for over two decades: a lot of good it's done! (Paper trail, though.) And, Richard Ball, it's good to remember that the CBC has no shame! Not a pretty picture, but we should definitely ramp up the pressure. (I use pointed, but different language--not the language I use here--when I communicate my concerns. Understatement's often a useful tool.)

I truly hope that the damage being done by the MSM to PMSH--notice, honourable man that he is, that he's standing firm--isn't going to cost him reelection. If that happens, I may have to move to Alberta and support its separation referendum! Let's hope not.

Afternoon, Isnt that legally intelligent, but isnt reporting like that some kind of fraud, dosnt the CBC have a legal manidate being a public broadcaster to be impartial and provide truthful coverage. Could a group of like minded people launch a class action suit. Anybody have any answers for me

O.K. people...
Adding to the list of advertisers on CBC Newsworld...

1. Honda
2.A&W Restaurants
3.Ing Direct Banking Tel # 1-866-700-1763
McCains Foods

I have set my VCR ...will add new names as they appear.

Roger that, Helen. Thanks and keep up the good work!