Pieter Dorsman learns the truth of an old Chinese proverb - "the man who believes what he reads in the newspaper Is the man who has never been interviewed".
The power outage is continuing over here, in fact it got worse this morning when another storm knocked out numerous trees and power lines. Of course, this has attracted media attention and on Friday night we got a visit from a local TV-crew interested in how we were making out.They came the right time, we had just grilled some great chicken on the BBQ, opened up an Australian Shiraz and getting ready to enjoy our dinner in front of the fireplace. The interviewer was trying hard to find bad news or some discord over our predicament, but even our children confirmed that we were doing fine when the camera lights were directed on them. I’ve not been interviewed on TV much, but it occurred to both me and Irene how hard some of these media outfits thrive on the negative rather than the positive. Only this afternoon some other journalists were in town soliciting quotes about how poorly the local power utility was doing in restoring services, but the contrary is true: they’re working around the clock to make things work again.
(OK, so it's an old Saskatchewan proverb. Just remember where you heard it.)
I like the headline ..."Crippled by Storm....."
blahblahblahblah.......... CTV news continues their fine tradition................of making it up!
THE MEDIA IS AN ASS !! .. They have always been an ass, but now the Blogs are handing them their ass. Warren Kinsella may not agree, but the "good times" for the MSM are over. And he is perhaps the best Liberal we have.
For the first time in history, the MSM's reporting can be reported on by citizens at large. And it will only get worse for the Media as most of the Young-Crowd ignores TV/Paper news.
Yesterday's Globe made this blatant, misleading staement. Something like ".. and while most young people use the Internet as their news source, they admit that they do not blindly accept all they read on it and check it out". unhuh. Like, they believe what the MSM reports ?? Like, maybe they are also checking out the MSM's take ?? Like, before the Internet they could not even check out the MSM's bs ?? Guilty by ommission, not ?
Negative news sells, so they seek it out to the exclusion of success stories. Ever seen Dr. Patrick Moore, Dr. Tim Ball on CBC ?? Ever seen David Suzuki, supporter of end-of-the-worlder Al Gore ?? And you thought the Waco, Texas Cult was dangerous !!
Sort of hits the mark doesn't it? I read a piece in the Standard a while back pointing to the same kind of conclusion but more to the political aspects of MSM coverage. Seems if it's good news it's not news.
bverwey
And according to the wackos we were suppost to be getting storms far worse then katrina becuase of global warming what a load of bull kaka