CTV Journalist Quits

This is typical of the "liberals/leftists, who don't realize they're liberals/leftists".

Everything about it wreaks of liberal activistism with zero self awareness.

Gong... gong... gong...

Is anybody mixing up another batch of the koolaid???

I kinda like this bit...

Our satirists are toothless and boring, with the notable exception of Jean-René Dufort. And on the more serious side, we have no Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow. So I don't see any true debate within the media world itself, in the sense of a national, public clash of ideas. The Canadian right wing, if you want to call it that, has had five years to get the gloves off. With a majority Conservative government in power, they're putting on brass knuckles. Meanwhile the left is grasping about in a pair of potholders. The only explanation I can think of is they're too polite, or too scared. If it's the latter, I think it's clear enough why.

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Beating these punks on every level they can bob to is the goal.

Oh crzp - he's headed west.

Another member of the sore pampered loser brigade who sees himself as far more than he is.

An objective journalist? Hardly.

Why do young leftists so often buy the whole package of socialist propaganda? Most conservatives I know think in terms of ISSUES and often disagree with other conservatives. We're not lemmings. I see a troubling tendency among young leftists to swallow the politically correct line, to fit in with their peer group.

chutz

The difference is critical thought....natural inquisitiveness, a hunger for knowledge...vs... well...as the Captain put it..credentialism.

So a CTV reporter reveals himself as a moonbat. Whoda thunk it?

He's young, and that is not to say that he will change his opinions, but he definitely hasn't experienced a whole lot first hand.

His letter reminds me of something a young Hollywood actor might write to the "fans" given a sudden burst of conviction. He sounds confused, and so he should be.

Right now I need to undertake a long-delayed journey of personal discovery.
~Kai Nagata

Good for you.
Here is what you need to discover:

a) you can't have fiscal conservatism and social programming at the same time. Socialism has ramping costs that eat up that fiscal conservatism you claim to believe in

b) science isn't done by concensus. There is no global warming and no shortage of carbon based energy that can't be alleviated by sweeping aside the environmentalist barriers erected to hobble the harvesting of more oil and gas

c) the Cold War never ended. Russia just downsized and got mean and lean like all the other Global National Corporations did in the '90's by cutting it's burdensome subsidiaries and rebranding. Russia stopped pretending the Soviet union was something other than just Russia with a bunch of other nations as human shields. Russian spys still live in the West at Cold War levels today and Russia is still using terrorist proxies to attack the West just as it did when the West recognized that a Cold War was being waged against it

Geeze this guy is just another pretty face Leftist journo with no brain behind those brightly lit zealous eyes.
I could go for hours fisking the false facts he believes in.
Quitting his job in the worst recession I've seen in my 50+ years is epic schtoopidity.
Kai is going to look back with bitter regret in a period of mere months.

Since he's headed west, I hope he keeps going until he hits the Left coast instead of landing in Alberta.

sync: "The difference is critical thought....natural inquisitiveness, a hunger for knowledge...vs... well...as the Captain put it..credentialism."

That's it. In order to get where they want to go, they bend to suit the liberal pack.

Kai's follow up.

http://kainagata.com/2011/07/09/a-lot-can-happen-in-24-hour

He resigned. That's what I'd call a good news story.

"Since he's headed west, I hope he keeps going until he hits the Left coast instead of landing in Alberta."

Oh, great. JUST what we need out here:)

The man is a whining pinko.

First, how does a unilingual (i.e. not French-speaking) wet behind the ears young man become a bureau chief at the National Assembly? What qualifications did he have that made it possible to overlook how very bad judgment that was?

And how does someone who isn't able to articulate a single original thought consider his future to possibly lie in the field of writing?

He is a child, similar to the child who held up a sign a few weeks ago (whose name has already escaped me), who thinks that because he likes ice cream, he is expert in its making. He deserves no further thought.

Some of what Nagata wrote rang true with me, especially towards the beginning. But here's one of the key parts I got hung up on:

"I'll say off the bat that my views don't completely mesh with any one political party. I'm not a partisan operative and I never was. Fiscally, I believe a government should be conservative."

To the best of my knowledge, only 'Oz' also picked up on it.

It's critically important for many folks on the Left to exclaim how "centrist" and "non-partisan" they are. Neither claim is true but the narrative fits in well in the echo chambers they call "progressive social gatherings".

As for the second sentence in the quote, Oz hit the nail squarely on the head: "You can't have fiscal conservatism and social programming at the same time. Socialism has ramping costs that eat up that fiscal conservatism you claim to believe in." The only thing I can add to this brilliant analysis is that Math Truly Is Hard for most journalists. They don't understand numbers very well.

They don't understand that slowing down spending increases is not the same thing as reducing spending altogether.

They're colour blind to the difference between red ink and black ink.

They don't really understand the difference between an annual deficit and the total debt.

Mark Steyn, among others, has hammered the point repeatedly: Long ago Canada lost touch with the real meaning of "conservatism" and "fiscal responsibility". If Nagata were approached on the street and asked to define what it means to be a small-c conservative or the meaning of "fiscal responsibility", his definitions would be far different than anything an SDA regular would define. And Nagata would be wrong; not a liar, just brutally ignorant.

I'm aware of people who get their news from Jon Stewart, but this is the first time I've learned of a professional working journalist who gets his news from Jon Stewart and says so.

What a whining suck hole! Methinks it would have been better if the boy had kept his thoughts to himself and let everyone thinks he was a fool, instead of writing that rather long self absorbed piece of teenage introspection and proving everyone right.

On climate change, the conclusion I am forced to draw is that the current federal government has completely abdicated its responsibility.
[SNIP]
As an Arctic nation -- a country of inventors, diplomats, and negotiators, we should be taking the lead in brokering global accords that might save the world as we know it.
~Kai Nagata

As an Arctic nation, we would be freezing in the dark at 4:30 in the afternoon during the winter solstice and the world as we know and experience it today would be destroyed by actively participating in those global accords that Kai Nagata gaily blithers on about.
You can't radically change our way of life and preserve it at the same time.

Nagata claims to be nonpartisan yet only pays lip service to conservative issues, which exceed his understanding, while demanding immediate action on socialist issues.

Maybe the problem is that we conservatives aren't shrill enough about the urgency and need for action on our issues.
Nah, people like Kai Nagata are just too intellectually lazy and immature to grasp conservative issues.

Possibly nobody told him the story of the 3 Little Pigs or the Ant & the Grasshopper or the Little Red Hen when he was a kiddie or taught him idioms like ‘a stitch in time saves 9’ or ‘a penny saved is a penny earned’ or ‘a fool and his money is soon parted’ or 'never draw to an inside straight'.

Whatever.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

So this guy quit his job because the media isn't left-wing enough? And he's non-partisan, but believes in every last goofball leftard shibboleth from publicly-funded high-speed rail to wind-farms to "raising our profile at the UN" at any cost? A "fiscal conservative" who thinks our tax dollars should be spent "massively" on make-work projects that could never sustain themselves as private businesses. And he supports science as the foundation of public policy, but once the "consensus" that concurs with his prejudices has been achieved, science is done and it's time for the commissars to impose their solutions, for our own good?

What a tool. A 24-year-old narcissist, a true infant of Trudeaupia, suckled at the statist teat. Somebody ought to offer him a real job out at Fort MacMurray to see how long he lasts among the proles.

BTW, did you notice how he bleated about Canada losing its shot at a UNSC seat...but blamed it on our lack of recent support for PK Ops? Good lord, not even Wacko Jacko would buy that! It sounded to me like he caught himself just before mentioning the real reason we lost it: Harper's principled support for the "Zionist Entity". As Kate says, scratch a leftist, find an anti-Semite. Of course, he would swear up and down that he's not anti-Jewish, he's just anti-Israel. It's Israel's policies that are the problem and some of his best friends are blah, blah, blah. Facts be damned.

By the way, is there anywhere in Canada that a woman can't get an abortion on demand or two gays can't get married? And has the Harper Gov done anything to change that? Sheesh. What a maroon.

The funny thing is, he spent thousands of words trying to explain what's wrong with television news in this country, and he succeeded. The problem with the mainstream media - and the reason that they're dying - is that they consciously recruit people wrought in their own image. People exactly like him.

"Youth is wasted on the young" comes to mind.

As I read this I kept thinking Cartman, particularly when things are not going his way and he says 'Screw you guys, I'm going home'

He's a spoiled brat who can't possibly contemplate that other people have different ideology from him, and worse that more and more people 'seemingly' are differing with his gospel.

itobo touched on it, but am I the only one wondering how a 24-year-old became a provincial bureau chief for the largest private news organization in Canada?

wondering how a 24-year-old became a provincial bureau chief for the largest private news organization in Canada?
~Daniel Ream

Not only that, but I'm wondering why a CTV "Bureau Chief" for the largest private news organization in Canada has a South Korean flag on his shoulder and a CBC microphone in his hand.
(40" HD monitor)

For some reason the whole article reminds me of Camille Cacnio's original letter of "apology" for her behaviour during the Vancouver riots. A celebration of thy self. Like a self-absorbed posting on one's own Facebook page.

Why do all these young people think that anyone other than people who actually know them would be interested in their short journey through life thus far?

re above photo:
Nagata seems to be interviewing a Montreal Gazette newspaper with the headline "Obama takes Fall for Security...

No wonder he quit if his job entailed interviewing a piece of paper written by another MSM journalist.
Talk about living in a Leftist echo chamber, eh?

"Not only that, but I'm wondering why a CTV "Bureau Chief" for the largest private news organization in Canada has a South Korean flag on his shoulder and a CBC microphone in his hand.
(40" HD monitor)"

Err, that logo is Canada Goose arctic wear and not a South Korean flag. (IPhone4)

He mentioned early on in that mess of writing that some in the TV news business are raging narcissists.

Hint for ya Kia. People who write a 3000 word essay on why they felt they had to quit their job?

Yeah.

Just another J-school grad realizing too late that he should have gone into social work instead.

News for you, Kia (nice name btw):

You want to change the world but lots of us out here in the world didn't want it changed before and wish all you self-appointed, none to bright do-gooders would just leave us alone and stop trying to fix us.

Typical CTV leftist whose view of the world can be summed up in his own 2 sentences
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Consider Fox News. What the Murdoch model demonstrated was that facts and truth could be replaced by ideology...

Run To The Wild Little Bob, Run To The Wild. So pathetically predictable. "A Dog Always Returns To His Vomit."

So our little leftist is going to jump in his truck and drive through the U.S.? He should be taking a train through Canada if he wants to be true to his beliefs. Whatever, I wish him luck on his quest sans Pancho Sanza

But look how SERIOUS he looks in the photo, with his copy of The Gazette held just at the right angle to express his disillusionment with the media as he undertakes his quest to find himself. All he's missing is a bag of his possessions tied up at the end of a pole, his wagon and his teddy.

The reality of blogging, IMHO, is that I found the item on Doughnuts of more lasting value. There is just no room left on the Ghandi/King/Obama Wall Of Fame.

Typical socialist "progressive".

I'll bet he sincerely believes that government has no place in the bedrooms of the nations, but supports laws that prohibit opening bedroom windows more than 10 cm.

A scoop missed by Nagata.

Pity. He would have been celebrated with a Companion of the Ordure of Canada.

"Canadian activists head home from Gaza flotilla
CBC.ca"

Five minutes of my life I will never get back. Now the poor boy will have to get a job with an NGO.

Is there no justice in a world gone mad?

I like the article just below it "Why Canada needs Al Jazeera" by Avi Lewis.

Caption:

"Justin Trudeau just got a haircut."

The repeated references to "conservative" values is an indication that he intends to set himself up as a "compassionate" conservative, then go about criticising conservatives "from the inside". He damn well knows he isn't a conservative, but he cant pull a Brooks/Parker/Frum by admitting he is a lefty! This is very typical of the "new generation" -- stealth activism, political nihilism, With very little moral fibre, and even less accountability. Buckets of self importance and desire to be popular.

In other words: A psychopathic narcissist.

Would it be okay with him if the "'action news' prophets" weren't from Iowa?

What an arrogant, self-satisfied, provincial little prick.

Interesting to note in the follow up he thanks various journalists who reposted his rant; David Akin of Sun is amongst the crowd of predictable lefties. That man is beginning to make my elbows itch.
He also jumps into an extended metaphor of using a pick axe ......and a little water has begun to flow zzzzzzzzzzz....Canlit here we come

I knew where his infantile rant was going after the first paragraph. Nothing new here, move along please.

If you have the time check out the love he gets in the comments over at Warren Kinsella's site.

I managed to read this self-aggrandizement once - but didn't get the mishmash of new age reasoning. Thank goodness for SmallDeadAnimals and the comments section - they were the GPS to a twisted, inscruitible set of random thoughts. Cheers.

I have another possible explanation as to why he's heading west :

He's tired of living in a political and economic backwater - having tolisten to and report on the petty xenophobic nonsense that emanates from the Quebec legislature must become very tiresome particularly to an outsider.

I hope he does come to AB - the economic and political dynamism of the province has flipped the political bent of many lefties in the past - it could happen to him as well.

Journalists: your moral and intellectual superiors!

He discovered he didn't like the tv journalism business because he couldn't he couldn't keep his opinions to himself and he doesn't like what he sees. Okay, so that makes him different from most journalists how? I suppose the difference is that he actually quit.

I do somewhat agree with him that tv news is pretty superficial and bland, but I wouldn't like the direction he would take it in. I wish there were a right-wing tv news channel with a tone resembling that of the BBC rather than that of Fox News, with lots of documentaries and investigative journalism of stories under the radar.

On the whole, meh. Who cares.

That and the pay sucked and there was little travel involved ...

This young man is full of contradictions …he’s a TV reporter who doesn’t own a TV.

Another contradiction is that he says: “Fiscally, I believe a government should be conservative. Caution seems like a good thing in stewarding the public purse. At the same time, I believe we should be taxed according to our capacity and that revenue invested, sometimes massively, in projects for the public good.” He thinks he can be a Marxist and conservative at the same time. He probably thinks that fiscally conservative means balancing the budget. But his definition of fiscal conservative has no cap on how large government can become by taxing and redistributing other people’s money… BTW many conservatives mistakingly think that balancing the budget not the size of government defines fiscal conservatism.

In short, he’s muddled and almost admits it with “Right now I need to undertake a long-delayed journey of personal discovery…..I need to consult, meditate, and plan the next steps.”

So he quit because in his mind Canadians are too dumb to realise that we should believe everything we hear/see on TV news from those sexy guys Lloyd, Fifer and Ollie.
And he thinks CBC is too polite?

Hired by Soros/Suzuki/Avaaz group in 3,2,1....