| Set aside for a moment the journalistic misrepresentation on display in using a photo depicting air pollution to illustrate a story on the costs of meeting Kyoto mandated C02 reductions… |
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There’s a little more than lack of scientific accuracy going on here. Reader “JRB” wrote, wondering if there was evidence of photoshopping.
My initial reaction was “no”. But then I noticed the file name (top-kyoto2.jpg) ends in the numeral “2”. Now, I know what it means when I add a “2” to a file name, so I removed it to see if anything came up.
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How about that? It’s an uncropped version of the same photograph, the difference in overall hue impossible to miss. A little extra searching reveals that CBC used the blue-toned image in a similar formats here and here. |
So, with two dramatically different versions before me, the evidence that one has been altered is clear. Therefore, I think it’s fair to ask – who at CBC news made the decision to “dirt enhance” the image that accompanies the item on John Baird’s report?
And why?
Update – CityNews has footage of the smokestacks being demolished in 2006.
An unenhanced photo of the same site in July of 2005 (taken by reader andycanuck).
Stephen Taylor – “Not only is the photoshopping unethical, it violates CBC’s own Journalistic Standards and Practices.”
If comments and loading are slow to respond, be patient. The server is under fairly heavy load at the moment, with incoming traffic from several top level American blogs. Thanks for the linkage, folks.
(In response to those commentors who argue that there is nothing at all unethical about photo manipulation of this type, let us resume the discussion on the day that a news outlet lightens a stock photo of Barack Obama to accompany quotes from African American political activists that he’s not “black enough”.)
What I don’t understand is why the entire left-wing marxist CBC staff and board wasn’t either completely fired a year ago, or it’s mandate changed.
“One wonders why you weren’t as diligent to inform us that the wonderhomes in Kurdistan that you posted on your blog were in fact CGI.”
That’s right Jose – Michael Totten is a big fraud. You really have a scoop there that could shake the blogosphere to its core. Now, run along and spread the word.
Jesus, what a loser you are.
Maybe the originally published photo was the doctored one.
Is it possible to find a list of the names of the alarmists who were screaming about Y2K and the disaster it would bring, and check it against the Kyoto crowd?
Troy said…”For example, I need a picture of a city encroaching on natural habitat to go along with an article…however I can’t find what I need, so I might photoshop two separate elements together to make what I need.”
And this is not fraud? You make things up to go along with “what you need”. Never got past grade 3,eh? Must freelance quite successfully with the CBC.
Off of the CBC website, I read an article about Suzuki getting prepared to deliver a petition to Baird. Some of which was written as follows:
“Suzuki blasted the report, saying the government is ignoring the cost of ignoring climate change.
“First of all, let’s stop listening to the goddamn economists,” he said.
“Twenty per cent of the economy will disappear. It will cost more than World War I and World War II put together. We’ll go into a kind of depression we’ve never, ever had in all of history.”
What a hypocrite. He tells us to quit listening the economists, and then he makes what can only then be described as a totally unfounded economic impact statement that only he with his vast economic experience could generate (and this he calculated when he found the time away from trying to get fruit flies to procreate).
Last night I watched HNIC (the only reason the CBC has to live), and I saw an ad for “The Hour.”
A clip of a Suzuki interview was shown and I turned to my wife and said ” I cannot think of another man that disgusts me more than David Suzuki.”
What I don’t understand is this: CBC is a government funded new agency, why can’t the government pull the plug on that scam of a media?
hey 275000 is about as many as Harper lets immigrate each year if we stop immigration for a year we could hit equilibrium.
By the way, that stuff you see coming out of the big stacks there? It is steam. You know, water vapor. It is either coming off a steam turbine, or is injected into stack to prevent smoking. Actual pollution is nearly invisible in modern industries.
Coyote: That’s exactly what it is…. water vapour.
But I’m sure the “big oil” told me to say that.
VanDusen last nite on CPAC had John Bennett from Climate for Change & Carl Sonnen, President of Informetrica.
mr sonnen gave an exellent overview of the report, while bennett critized it. Bennett was showing his true colors again & again, It is all The Current PM’s fault because the PM warned of this enormous cost & called it a socialist idea 10yrs ago, also & he does not believe their will be cost involved(in other words he don’t give a shit what happens to the economy aslong as he can save a tree)
Sonnen so rightly pointed out that he & others have been warning for over 10yrs that this would happen A train wreck in the Making. Then Bennett in around about way implied that Sonnen is for the Tories, Sonnen now getting a little agitated pointed out that in 93 their were 2names on an NDP policy 1 was his & he was asked to give an independent report, not support the gov’t.
Go to CPAC video vault Just after David McGuinty accusations of fear mongoring
We planted a cedar in the front yard last week. Where’s my megabuck carbon offset, Al Gore?
Actually, it’s pretty clear that both photos are colour enhanced.
This is a news site. A year ago I was raked over the coals for suggesting that a photo journalist used photoshop to compose a photo placing a crown on Harper’s head (he hadn’t) – and was told that my comments were “borderline libelous”.
When a Reuters photographer was caught cloning pics, they pulled hundreds of his photos from their files.
Now I’m supposed to believe that it’s perfectly fine to use digital enhancement on photos that accompany news stories.
So, which is it?
aaron…the answer to your question: see maz2 comment at 8:41 today.
It’s Oda’s Minisrty, and where is Oda?
Good for Mr. Baird to stand up an tell the truth about what this will cost.
The Kyoto emperor has no clothes, it is a scam, and a despicable pack of lies made up by anti-civilization Luddites. No wander many of these same people are in bed with the islamo-fascists. They want to drag us all back to some mythical pre-industrial Eden.
Even more despicable is the continued use of wild scare tactics, and the attempt to brainwash our children into acceptance of this miserable dystopia.
Kate is correct that it right to call out the cbc on this, and I am the “jrb” kate credited.
As a former Toronto resident, the air there is poor but the photo is egregious, doctored and slanted.
When LGF caught Reuters, they fired/suspended the perp, and, in their own way, admitted the error. The CEO posted about it.
We should demand no less from the CBC.
let’s see if i’ve got it right. you’ve produced an image of the 4 sisters on a clear day and that somehow supports the general belief over here that climate change is a socialist plot to rob albertans of their SUV’s?
as someone who has lived in toronto for a long time, let me assure that the hazy view of toronto’s waterfront depicted in the admittedly edited cbc image is increasingly more common than the other.
both images you offer from the cbc depict a city choking on it’s own pollution. i fail to see your point.
despite the fervent wishes of some readers, the cbc is here to stay.
They have pulled their lovely piece of work and now have Baird’s picture up…do they read your blog kate?
D. Ryan: Thank you, for bringing up how the cbc rigged trudeaus election. Several months after said event, a program (like The Hour) interviewed several cbc female reporters, (one is still with the cbc) sort of bragging how they had worked the crowd. It was the first convention where computers were being used. They had fed in the results they expected. It wasn’t turning out how they wanted and delegates were not trudeau fans. After the first vote, these reporters spread out and when interviewing delegates fed them this false info, that said group of delegates were going to so and so. The momentum was for trudeau. You know the rest. Liberals as usual being sheep and being led. They should all be sued for the damage they caused Canada. Try to imagine all the cbc talking heads, take 40 yrs off them and think of them as intelligent (I know, its hard) hippies. They haven’t changed.
OT but funny, flip over to cnn and listen to Alex Baldwin rant against his 12 yr old daughter in a telephone conversation, calling her a pig. You can’t believe his anger. This from someone who says Bush is —–, thinks global warming is real, would move to AB if Bush elected, only if they stopped hurting trees etc. Custody battles do strange things to people.
CBCpravda definitely reads this blog. lots of stories have been pulled.
In this case CBBpravda was “hoist on their own retard”
jeff just wanted us to look at his photoshop work….poor Libs suffering from ADD.
as someone who has lived in toronto for a long time, let me assure that the hazy view of toronto’s waterfront depicted in the admittedly edited cbc image is increasingly more common than the other.
both images you offer from the cbc depict a city choking on it’s own pollution.
I’ve lived in Toronto my entire life, and the “hazy view” is a gross exaggeration and not more common than the other.
Furthermore, for years Toronto politicians have been blaming smog on Ohio valley industry.
Jeff: Toronto choking on its own pollution? I thought the Jack Layton memorial windmill on the Lakeshore blew it all across the lake to Buffalo or was that David Miller and his magic broom? Right.
Jeff: Toronto choking on its own pollution? I thought the Jack Layton memorial windmill on the Lakeshore blew it all across the lake to Buffalo or was that David Miller and his magic broom? Right.
Actually, jeff, there is no legitimate reason to maintain the CBC. The reasons for its existence are completely illegitimate and unethical.
It is not a news station but a propaganda mouthpiece for the Liberals; its staff are completely of the left perspective. When the Liberals are in power, then the CBC is useful as a propaganda instrument for that gov’t. Now, when the Liberals are not in power, it is extremly useful to the Liberals, who have no money to fund an information campaign, to use the CBC as a taxpayer funded mouthpiece for their promotion.
The CBC has rejected its original mandate as a news and information site, and switched to operating as an appendage of the Liberal/NDP political agenda. In this transformation, the CBC has also set itself up as a government funded employer, supporting thousands of jobs – all working within that propaganda agenda. These employees, dependent on the taxpayer,will lobby to maintain those jobs.
The useless gun registry does nothing to prevent gun violence, but does provide jobs.
The CBC is similar; it does not provide information and news; it provides jobs for socialists. And, it functions as a propaganda mouthpiece for the Liberal party. And we taxpayers are hooked into paying for this propaganda. That’s unethical.
As for emissions, Kyoto is a money laundering scam.
And pollution? How about walking the streets of Toronto, or driving its roads and highways. The garbage and litter, left by ‘caring citizens’ is incredible. Cigarette butts everywhere, trashed into flower pots, coffee cups – in sidewalk planters, newspapers read and simply tossed; the sidewalks littered with garbage. Check out side streets, where people fling their garbage onto other people’s lawns, check out the attempts to set up public gardens and green spaces, that rapidly become filled with litter, garbage etc.
So – when the public gets emotional about ‘pollution’ and ‘big industries’ harming the air quality – I’d suggest that they start, minute by minute, checking out their own activities – not about emissions, but about pollution.
What a hypocrite (Suzuki). He tells us to quit listening the economists, and then he makes what can only then be described as a totally unfounded economic impact statement.
Hypocrisy is order of day for Suzuki and their ilk. As Kingstonlad said, apparently for some, it’s OK to lie as long as your cause is “just.”
It’s OK to decimate our economy (northern, cold, oil producing nation), at 2% of total human CO2 emissions. That’s leadership.
To demonstrate their hypocrisy, one only has to look at Dionsky position on Afghanistan. It’s at odds with previous Lib govts, no need to show leadership here. Just gain cheap political points at expense of our troops and benefitting cruel, despostic Taliban (20% of Afghan population), who would execute leftys, trade unionists and sociology professors in a heartbeat.
So, Kate, would you have been less scandalized if the photographer created two versions of the image on film using a Singh-Ray Gold n’ Blue polarizer instead? (A nice way of duplicating this effect in camera.) Or is it Photoshop that you reserve your animus for?
I maintain that colour and lighting corrections, including those that could be duplicated by an on camera filter, are inconsequential. I’m more worried about pixel-pushing (cloning, patching, etc.).
Besides, the content of the article itself strikes me as being much more troublesome than the accompanying image.
I’m puzzled by the extent of sophistry conservatives will use to try to counter what is becoming an increasingly worrysome environment problem. Anything to divert attention from the facts. Pollution kills. Global warming will kill your grandchildren. But, nah…that’s got to be a liberal plot! And CBC must be an accomplice of this plot, getting its marching order from David Suzuki. It’s so much easier to prove!
_(IMO) the original image is bad enough, and typically realistic as anyone currently from T.O. should be able to attest. The 2nd ‘and here’ link goes to a fuller Kyoto & Beyond labelled photo.
_Of slight note: the ex-Hydro coal plant is/were about 15 km away from the Toronto downtown, per a straight line over the angled waterfront. It is near the municipal border from Suburb to Metro Toronto in front of a mostly post-WWII uncongested residential region.
I’d like someone to explain to me why Toronto’s pollution is a federal problem to solve? It isn’t blowing in from the tar sands.
I’d like someone to explain to me why Toronto’s pollution is a federal problem to solve? It isn’t blowing in from the tar sands.
toronto will happily solve it’s own problems once the feds give us our money back.
god knows we sent enough money west to help develop the oil sands in the first place.
Toronto’s pollution is its own problem.
Any industry in the city has mostly been forced out into the suburbs due to the silly property tax policies so it’s the cars that create the smog and what does T.O. do? Make traffic congestion a city policy by refusing to build expressways and narrowing streets and therby creating more pollution. I’m orignally from Toronto but Miller and his like deserve to stew in their own juice and good on them.
Daniel M Ryan at 7:57 above
This is Para 11 in case you didn*t check.
Konrad Black*s wife remembering work at the CBC.
She discloses in the book that, as a result of pressure from the producer of the show and also her boss, she made the results up. She did predict the winner, Pierre Trudeau, but the older Amiel expresses qualms about the fast one that her younger self pulled back then.
Dismissing the possibility that her [B]*little fraudulent poll*[B] (p. 77) changed the results, she nevertheless discloses that she *crowned* the CBC staff’s choice, and notes how easy it was to swim with the left-lib *syndrome* (p. 78,) one more pervasive than a mere conspiracy.
It prevailed in the CBC, and in the Canadian media generally. A then-young Henry Champ, then with CTV’s W5, suffered on account of this mindset, when he deviated from the acceptable line.
========= ConradBlackTrial.blogspot.com
And that*s why dogs do what they do to poles and CBC buildings everywhere. = TG
Daniel M Ryan at 7:57 above
This is Para 11 in case you didn*t check.
Konrad Black*s wife remembering work at the CBC.
She discloses in the book that, as a result of pressure from the producer of the show and also her boss, she made the results up. She did predict the winner, Pierre Trudeau, but the older Amiel expresses qualms about the fast one that her younger self pulled back then.
Dismissing the possibility that her [B]*little fraudulent poll*[B] (p. 77) changed the results, she nevertheless discloses that she *crowned* the CBC staff’s choice, and notes how easy it was to swim with the left-lib *syndrome* (p. 78,) one more pervasive than a mere conspiracy.
It prevailed in the CBC, and in the Canadian media generally. A then-young Henry Champ, then with CTV’s W5, suffered on account of this mindset, when he deviated from the acceptable line.
========= ConradBlackTrial.blogspot.com
And that*s why dogs do what they do to poles and CBC buildings everywhere. = TG
Daniel M Ryan at 7:57 above
This is Para 11 in case you didn*t check.
Konrad Black*s wife remembering work at the CBC.
She discloses in the book that, as a result of pressure from the producer of the show and also her boss, she made the results up. She did predict the winner, Pierre Trudeau, but the older Amiel expresses qualms about the fast one that her younger self pulled back then.
Dismissing the possibility that her [B]*little fraudulent poll*[B] (p. 77) changed the results, she nevertheless discloses that she *crowned* the CBC staff’s choice, and notes how easy it was to swim with the left-lib *syndrome* (p. 78,) one more pervasive than a mere conspiracy.
It prevailed in the CBC, and in the Canadian media generally. A then-young Henry Champ, then with CTV’s W5, suffered on account of this mindset, when he deviated from the acceptable line.
========= ConradBlackTrial.blogspot.com
And that*s why dogs do what they do to poles and CBC buildings everywhere. = TG
The CP photographer is named Frank Gunn (he’s done alot of hockey games, too!); if there’s any question about how he took the photo re. lenses etc., contact him and ask.
Daniel M Ryan at 7:57 above
This is Para 11 in case you didn*t check.
Konrad Black*s wife remembering work at the CBC.
She discloses in the book that, as a result of pressure from the producer of the show and also her boss, she made the results up. She did predict the winner, Pierre Trudeau, but the older Amiel expresses qualms about the fast one that her younger self pulled back then.
Dismissing the possibility that her [B]*little fraudulent poll*[B] (p. 77) changed the results, she nevertheless discloses that she *crowned* the CBC staff’s choice, and notes how easy it was to swim with the left-lib *syndrome* (p. 78,) one more pervasive than a mere conspiracy.
It prevailed in the CBC, and in the Canadian media generally. A then-young Henry Champ, then with CTV’s W5, suffered on account of this mindset, when he deviated from the acceptable line.
========= ConradBlackTrial.blogspot.com
And that*s why dogs do what they do to poles and CBC buildings everywhere. = TG
The CP photographer is named Frank Gunn (he’s done alot of hockey games, too!); if there’s any question about how he took the photo re. lenses etc., contact him and ask.
Someone commented earlier on how amazing Kate is in her ability to point out the folly of our beloved media “reporting”.
While mot taking anything at all away from Kate’s commendable qualities, I would suggest her task is quite easy.
Consider;
1) The media tells blatant lies. Hence it is easy to call them on their “presentation”.
2) In today’s era of computers and the Internet, it is easy to compile and keep records on the media’s bias and spin.
3) More and more people are sourcing their news from the web sites and so the media no longer has a monopoly on how stories are presented.
4) The # of commenters out in the real world is growing exponentially and therefore Kate’s sources of uncorrupted information is also growing exponentially.
5) There is a mountain of media misinformation out there. Kate will not be unemployed anytime soon.
Kate saw all of the above a long time ago and acted on it. That is the real genius.
‘Kate the Genie’ is out of the bottle.
from jeff: “god knows we sent enough money west to help develop the oil sands in the first place.” What do you mean by “we”?
Money was sent west to help develop the oil industry in Alberta, but not Canadian money….it largely came from US banks. As for the tar sands….the amount of money that that is sent to the east as a result of its’ development is incredible, and I cannot think of a single eastern-based company that participates in the financial development of the tar sands.
Please jeff, name some so that I can be enlightened. I really don’t expect a reply though, as you may hurt yourself while you scratch your head.
Wow! I got this error message..
Movable Type .. Page 101060 failed to rebuild or something.. [from memory]
Looks like it tried and succeeded several times. = TG
Jeff,
Americans sent the money west to build the oilsands. Toronto and Ottawa are on the receiving end.
Da proff is da proof and when you hav da proof you know it is da proof.
(Apologize for the lengthy paste)
Alberta is already spreading the wealth
Any discussion of ‘redistributing’ the province’s petrodollars to correct fiscal imbalances is misguided
PRESTON MANNING AND FRED KERR
As the premiers and the federal government discuss fiscal imbalances and equalization, one hears increasing references to Alberta’s burgeoning petroleum revenues and suggestions that Ottawa should somehow involve itself in “redistributing” such revenues more equitably across the country.
In 1980 — the last time the federal government acted on such advice after the OPEC-engineered oil price hike — the results were politically and economically disastrous. Confiscatory taxes imposed on the industry in Canada almost killed the goose that was laying the golden egg. Oil-patch investment and jobs fled the country. Western alienation came within a hair of being transformed into full-blown western separatism.
And the Liberal government responsible for the so-called national energy program destroyed its electoral prospects in much of the West for more than two decades.
The Harper government obviously has no intention of repeating such mistakes. And there would be less misguided pressure for it to do so, if the public were to better understand the following facts:
1. Albertans’ per capita contribution to equalization is by far the highest in the country.
The federal government collects consumption, income and other taxes from individuals and corporations across Canada. Naturally, it collects more revenue in provinces whose economies are vigorous than it does in provinces whose economies are weak. Ottawa then redistributes significant revenues to the governments of less affluent provinces through the equalization program, to enable them to provide social services to their people roughly equivalent to those available in the rest of the country.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty cites the $23-billion net federal fiscal contribution made by the people of Ontario, and argues that this is excessive. But, for 40 years (even when oil prices have been low), Albertans’ net federal fiscal contribution per person per year has been more than triple that of Ontarians.
Any suggestion that Albertans have not been contributing their fair share to equalization and should be contributing an even higher percentage is itself unfair.
2. The benefits of the current boom in the petroleum sector are already distributed far more broadly than most people think.
In 2006, $108-billion in revenue will flow into the petroleum sector in Canada as a result of record high oil prices.
The portion of this revenue that is most visible to the public — because it is most frequently mentioned by the media and the politicians — is the portion that flows into the coffers of the Alberta government. In 2006, this will amount to almost $20-billion — about $14-billion in royalties, $3-billion in taxes, and $3-billion from the sale of drilling rights.
But what about the other $88-billion? The Canadian petroleum industry will send about $5-billion to Ottawa in federal income taxes in 2006 and another $2-billion to $3-billion to the treasuries of other hydrocarbon-producing provinces such as British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. It will spend $11-billion on debt and equity financing charges, and another $23-billion on administrative and operating expenses.
And then there is the big ticket item — capital expenditures.
Conventional oil and gas wells start declining from the moment they come on stream. Typically, a new gas well’s production declines around 30 per cent in the first year. As a result, the industry must drill an ever-increasing number of wells just to keep production flat, let alone grow it. Oil-sands plants are even more capital intensive. This means that much of the capital generated by conventional and oil-sands production must be reinvested in further development. Thus, in 2006, the industry will commit more than $40-billion to capital expenditures — everything from rigs and mining equipment to chemicals and pipes — much of which is made outside Alberta, notably in Ontario.
Finally, there is the stream of dividends and distributions paid to investors in Canada’s petroleum sector — about $6-billion in 2006. The ownership of today’s industry is structured quite differently than it was in the 1980s — with many energy producers having organized themselves into royalty and income trusts. The majority of these are owned by individuals, mutual funds, and pension funds based in Central Canada. When the Liberal government mused about rejigging the tax rules for royalty and income trusts, it was no coincidence that the loudest and most immediate protests came not from Calgary but from Toronto.
And then there are the capital gains recently enjoyed by Canadian energy investors, most of whom live outside Alberta. The energy sector, which, during the Nortel glory days of the high-tech boom, represented less than 10 per cent of the TSX index, today represents about 30 per cent. That’s a lot of wealth generation for a large number of Canadians right across the country.
The bottom line? While $20-billion of the $108-billion generated by the petroleum industry in 2006 will end up in the hands of the Alberta government, the remaining $88-billion is much more broadly distributed than most media commentators, politicians and Canadians think.
3. The investment of $100-billion in the oil sands will generate more tax dollars for the federal government than the Alberta government, and almost as many person years of employment outside Alberta as within the province.
A recent study by the Canadian Energy Research Institute highlighted the following facts: Conventional oil production in Canada is declining, underscoring the importance of oil sands as a vital source of North American supplies. In 2004, Alberta’s oil sands were recognized by the International Energy Agency, for the first time, as part of global oil reserves. This established Canada’s reserves as second only to Saudi Arabia’s, justifying Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s assertion that Canada is becoming an energy superpower.
But oil-sands development requires massive capital investment before anyone sees a dime of revenue. Producers need to delineate ore bodies, build processing facilities, and buy trucks and loaders or inject steam to coax the gooey stuff out of the ground.
The need for massive capital investment creates opportunities for investors across Canada and around the world. And all this capital investment creates thousands of jobs, for which Alberta alone cannot hope to supply the labour. Trades people, engineers and labourers are flocking to Fort McMurray from across Canada, including a large contingent from Newfoundland. Most of those workers pay Canadian taxes.
Many send a portion of their oil wages home to Corner Brook, Barrie or Moncton.
The CERI study estimated the impacts of $100-billion invested in oil-sands development over a 20-year period through to 2020.
Even if oil prices were to level off at half their current level, this investment will lead to:
6.6-million person years of employment, 44 per cent of it outside of Alberta. Of the 1.7-million person years of employment generated in Canada outside of Alberta, 1 million would be in Ontario alone.
Federal government tax revenues of $51-billion, making Ottawa (not Alberta) the largest recipient of government revenues generated by oil-sands development.
An interesting future study would be to compare the national distribution of benefits, including tax revenues generated for the federal government, from the development of an oil-sands plant in Alberta versus a hydro-power project in Quebec or a nuclear-power plant in Ontario. And if such a study showed — as it would — that the benefits from the hydro and nuclear projects were much more narrowly distributed than those of the oil-sands project, would the political and business establishments of Ontario and Quebec support federal intervention in the name of equalization to ensure a more equitable distribution? Not likely.
The above facts concerning the current and future distribution of benefits from the development of Alberta’s petroleum resources are not widely known. They are rarely even mentioned, let alone taken into account, in the debate on how to correct fiscal imbalances and reform equalization. It is high time they were.
Preston Manning, a former federal leader of the Official Opposition, is president of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. Fred Kerr is a Calgary-based commentator and former institutional stockbroker specializing in the energy sector.
Source; Globe & Mail.
Jeff, don’t let the door hit your ass on your way out.
Cheers,
Glenn
ET: “It is not a news station but a propaganda mouthpiece for the Liberals; its staff are completely of the left perspective. ”
That Vimy Ridge extravaganza a week or so ago was certainly propaganda but it was most certainly not “of the left perspective”! Don’t worry – your tax dollars are working to impose your ideology.
Again, though, I cannot imagine that anyone would seriously consider the Liberals to be “left”! I suppose if you consider anyone who deviates even slightly from hard libertarianism to be “left”, they are “left”, but what you have then is a very blunt conceptual instrument for political discussion. It’s kind of like trying to cut your fingernails with an axe.
Someone commented earlier on how amazing Kate is in her ability to point out the folly of our beloved media “reporting”.
While mot taking anything at all away from Kate’s commendable qualities, I would suggest her task is quite easy.
Consider;
1) The media tells blatant lies. Hence it is easy to call them on their “presentation”.
2) In today’s era of computers and the Internet, it is easy to compile and keep records on the media’s bias and spin.
3) More and more people are sourcing their news from the web sites and so the media no longer has a monopoly on how stories are presented.
4) The # of commenters out in the real world is growing exponentially and therefore Kate’s sources of uncorrupted information is also growing exponentially.
5) There is a mountain of media misinformation out there. Kate will not be unemployed anytime soon.
Kate saw all of the above a long time ago and acted on it. That is the real genius.
‘Kate the Genie’ is out of the bottle.
exile,
so you think that remembering the people killed serving our nation is right-wing propaganda then? If so, you should move to North Korea and eat dirt for the few months it takes you to starve.
Jeff,
Are you coming around to the idea that we’re over-taxed? Good for your. Progress. It IS time for a tax cut 🙂
The Angry (CBC) Reporter comments “I’m puzzled by the extent of sophistry conservatives will use to try to counter what is becoming an increasingly worrysome environment problem.”
Apparently you’re new here.
If you take the time to search the archives, you’ll find that the “sophistry” you refer to includes published opinions and links to published dissent from climate and earth scientists whose credentials put those of activists like David Suzuki and Al Gore to shame.
That the CBC continues to “consult” these faux experts on topics they are not qualified to comment on is nothing short of intentional journalistic malpractice.
Looks like some are missing the point here.
This has nothing to do with Photoshop.
It has everything to do with adjusting everything leftward at the CBC. = TG
Angry Reporter,
Please explain how global warming will kill my grandchildren. By almost any measure, warming results in fewer deaths, not more. And you claim it’s conservatives having trouble proving theories? If the science behind AGW is so good, then the computer models predicting its effects will be able to tell us some specifics 10 years from now. Given their track record (claims of ‘a terrible year for hurricanes’, etc), they can’t even handle the upcoming weather season. When you get a handle on non-exaggerated claims of what the science shows, conservatives (and all reasonable people) will listen with rapt attention. Our skepticism only continues to exist because there are so many holes in the AGW theory.
Speaking of hurricanes, you might search that topic as well. The leading hurricane expert for the IPCC reports resigned in 2001, citing misrepresentation of his research by the panel.
Kate…don’t waste your bandwidth on Angry CBC Reporter. She has all the facts,we have only lies and fearmongering. After all, a fruit-fly geneticist knows infinitely more about world climate then say, oh, a climatologist.