Oh, Fuddle-Duddle

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The Rebel story is spinning way out of government control.
Alberta Press Gallery – Legislature Building
Via, CBC:

“The government’s position is that if you have testified under oath that you are not a journalist, then we don’t consider you a journalist,” she said.
Oates’s comment refers to testimony given by Levant in a libel suit in 2014. He told the court that he was a commentator and a pundit, not a reporter.

You’ll note the deliberate ignoring of the word, ‘reporter’ in Levant’s statement and instead equate it with the much more general ‘journalist’.
I have to ask if Paul McLoughlin or the Armet’s qualify under these new definitions.
And then there’s, “We didn’t allow bloggers or online news sources in,” she said. “They (The Rebel) weren’t singled out.”
Does that mean that the HuffPost, the Tyee, Vice, or iPolitics can’t play anymore in Alberta?

52 Replies to “Oh, Fuddle-Duddle”

  1. I gather then that nobody is entitled to change occupation from time to time without government approval.

  2. Forget the petition. Everyone should try and get press “credentials” whatever the hell those are. Who’s in charge of who’s press and who’s not?

  3. Apparently Notley has appointed Heather Boyd (former CP Bureau Chief) to “review” their press policies. Sounds like the NDP are running scared from this idiotic position and looking for cover.

  6. I always thought that there was a public galley where citizens could view the dog and pony show.

  8. Stalin would approve,the Notley dippers are the NDP faction that sing,live,and breathe “The Internationale”

  9. This was about access to a locked media scrum, not a legislative session. The govt does these when they want to bring the media in on a measure (or frequently, a deal) AND control how the circumstance is reported. Often there are non-governmental 3rd parties involved. They really don’t like “loose cannons” in these – too hard to wink, windk, nudge, nudge.

  10. Looks like the Rebel is getting too close and exposing the true nature of the Mew Dictator Party (NDP) and starting to defend themselves. That is what matters … note: many of the information presented is by the freedom-of-information, that any reporter/citizen can get. More power to them! The LIEberals and the New Dictator Party hate the truth and facts.

  11. Frankly I really hope this blows up like an atomic bomb on the NDP.
    Even a fool knows that the only reason Notley and her crew of crazy socialists don’t want Rebel anywhere near them is because the Rebel is critical of them.
    Imagine, for just one minute, if Harper had banned the CBC from media scrums and other events. Imagine the uproar.
    I simply cannot stand socialists. They make me feel ill to my stomach, in large part because they are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

  20. Because Levant was a commentator in 2014 for Sun News doesn’t make him or his staff not reporters for the Rebel in 2016. Those damn communists cockroaches like Notley can live in the light of day.

  21. Nobody voted these malcontents misfits miscreants and fatties in per say, they garnered enough votes to win, because of the conservatives fracturing their vote. Some of the PC’s had gotten somewhat into the entitlement mode, and pissed a lot of conservative Albertans off, along came Alberta’s gadfly troublemaker, she had no end of lies about the land use bills and has never been in any organization she didn’t F up (school board, WRP) and “shazaam” Alberta was overnight communized, no 50 trainloads of guards bringing dear leader through the mountains just a dopey union dork driving her to the Leg. We as Albertans have to keep the pressure up on these misfits, most of them have never had any meaningful work, protesting for “spirit days” is hardly work, and the pressure will drive them back to their worthless lives hopefully before we all are equally as miserable as the left. Soon the Globals and CTV CBC will have dear leader getting a hole in one with every drive on the golf course, Keep it up Ezra and thanks to Kate for her help showing the country how the once finely tuned economic engine of Canada, Alberta, is now in the shop and being overhauled by the hairdresser.

  22. But Ezra was not even the person trying to get in. He coordinates (owns?) a respected news agency. This seems rather like a personal vendetta.

  23. I called the AB new democrap’s 800 # this afternoon, left them a msg to the effect they were DOOMED to repeat the Ontarioarario experience with Bob Rae. called them closet communists. the fact Ezra denies he’s a reporter has nothing to do with the Rebel’s exclusion; the Q is, are the Rebel *personnel* excluded from these scrums reporters? yes. Is the CEO of CTV, CBC, Globull, ABC, NBC, XYZUPTHEWAZOO, are they ‘reporters? no. the Q is, is the person SHOWING UP @ the media spiel a reporter or not?
    ya, I told them this whole situation is going to blow up in their faces. godd**mn fascists.
    I did a couple stories for the student paper @ Brock University decades ago. I considered myself a REPORTER. I was not majoring in journalism either, and it was unpaid. But the press ID identified me as a REPORTER, REPORTING on a story of interest to the university community via the student paper that still exists.
    Notley’s thugs have painted themselves into a corner. it is an earmark of a diktatorshyt when the bosses stifle criticism.
    new democraps. stuck in the 60s. painting themselves into corners. it’s the inexperience that’s getting to them; they’re completely unaccustomed to such power and the responsibilities attached. instead they show their true colours. closet commies. DOOMED to indefinite 3rd party status with the next election.

  24. When the CBC (which is NO friend to conservatives) is suggesting, however indirectly and gently, that this is putting a chilling effect on free speech, you KNOW that Notley and the NDP have screwed up massively.
    I think the CBC realizes that Notley is only going to last 1 term, and if they support this idiocy they’ll be banned when the PCs or Wildrose is in power.

  25. You guys in AB really ought to have a look into the background of one of her top advisers: one ‘Sleazy’ Moe Sahota, one-time BC cabinet minister, disbarred lawyer and former president of the BCNDP. I guarantee you will find some very interesting stuff. And I’m not just talking about his life in politics.

  26. “…seems rather like a personal vendetta.”
    Ezra Levant happens to be top of the list at the moment but it’s not that personal. The NDP government will try this with anyone who seems likely to encourage public scrutiny of them.

  27. The Globe says that “The Rebel… is usually unwatchable to anyone but its most fervent followers”
    No no, that’s the CBC you’re thinking of.

  28. old white guy said….”I always thought that there was a public galley where citizens could view the dog and pony show.” Not to worry. I’m quite sure Nutley and the rest of the commies are scheming up a way to close the public gallery.

  29. I think we are missing the obvious.
    NDP=Union politics.
    Union Presstitutes=Canadian Media Guild.
    Thus only members of the Canadian Media Guild can be qualified to be reporters in NDP Alberta.
    Where is the Guild membership list?
    A quick crosscheck should see if all those Rachael approves of as journalists make the list.

  31. You sir are the winner of the accuracy prize. For any ‘journalist’ or media outlet to even agree to attend these sessions is an affront to journalism and the media. It’s a controlled environment that gives the government a ‘helpful ear’. They don’t want any media outlet that may seriously question their plan in such meetings.
    These meetings are a sham and the MSM has kowtowed to governments for decades in this regard. Regardless of the government these invitations should be declined by the media and they should actually do the job they are supposed to do.

  34. well well now, not one comment about wynnebag and ontarIowe?…you newfbertons sure are in a pickle now,and that bible banger manning was a big help getting you’s there. Maybe if the preacher had kept his pie-hole shut the wild rose may have been in power today. So could one of you bible thumping jackass’ can put up a bible verse or two, just to honour manning

  35. What are they afraid of?
    Are they afraid of journalists that aren’t tongue bathing lackies?
    Fear of the unknown, which is the same thing.
    What are they and their tame journalists hiding from us this time?

  37. You are really slipping, NME555. I read your gibberish twice but it still made no sense. You have the wit of a wet sock. Maybe I was distracted waiting to hear something from you about the Jooooos owning and controlling the media along with the Alberta National Socialists.

  39. I saw this coming when Ed Minister Eggen threatened to ‘dissolve’ the Edmonton Catholic School board for distributing a letter critical of the current regime from Calgary bishop Henry, (or maybe Hendry, I’m not sure). Eggen didn’t follow through with the threat, (yet), but the threat alone was designed to put the fear of punishment into any prospective critical voice.
    The Rebel apparently did not respond with the proper cowardice, so the regime de jour took it to the next level, making Rebel reporters non-persons in the Parliament building. They may or may not back down from this atrocity, it looks like they will, this time, but what about next time? Who will have their rights denied by Nachel Rotley’s armed enforcers next, and for what spurious reason?
    We live in very scary times, and we have 3 1/2 years more of this to look forward to. May G-d have mercy on our souls, for damned sure they won’t.

  40. Some perspective is needed here. BC had a highly useful link showing the Globe pasting the Alberta government over this, but it got one thing badly wrong, and it’s this:
    “Premier Rachel Notley is showing contempt for the media…”
    Not contempt: fear. Sheer, stark terror. Notley’s government is in a very bad spot. The Alberta economy and the price of oil have tanked. Unemployment is soaring. The land of everything has suddenly become a have-not province. And during her time in office, Alberta’s oil has been effectively blockaded, no NG, no KXL, and by the signs no Canada East.
    As if all that isn’t enough, rural Alberta hates her. With a passion and for good reason. Just to go along with the oil industry despising her, regardless of the polite faces they show to the public.
    And everyone’s going to be blaming her. Like Rae in Ontario in the early ’90s, she’s inheriting a tough situation and making it worse. And like Rae, everyone’s going to be blaming her.
    So the Alta dippers are now afraid. And with fear comes a desperate need to control the message particularly by denying access to their irreconcilable opponents. It’s a sign of desperation and weakness, because it never works even in those countries which have official censorship.
    What’s surprising to me is this level of panic surfacing so early in this government. Usually it takes years for this level of paranoia to appear.
    But take it from me, it’s a sign of just how weak and thin-skinned this government really is.

  42. At 27% popularity, if I were Rachel Notley, I’d be happy if ”The Dog River Sentinel’s ”only reporter showed up at my doorstep!! The woman is an idiota!
    Sometimes though, looking stupid can make you famous.

  43. While Red Rachel and her politburo are getting their you-know-whats in a knot about who is considered to be qualified to be a journalist, perhaps they should do some self-examination.
    I mean, is the NDP cabinet really qualified to run a government? For example, Shannon Phillips is the provincial environment minister, but her background was as a student activist and used to work for the Alberta Federation of Labour. Margaret McCuaig-Boyd is a former school teacher and is now the minister of energy. Joe Ceci, the finance minister, used to be a social worker.
    Talk about a bunch of rank amateurs. And they’re upset about someone working for The Rebel? Pot, meet kettle.

  44. Not only that, the NDP hired, begged or borrowed at great expense (no skin in the game, they commute weekly), a bunch of NDP Bolshevik apparatchiks from outside the province to “advise” said “Ministers” on how to go about running the New Bolshevik State of Alberta. Not enough home grown talent to pick from, I guess.
    I’m thinking that they’ll never last to call the next election, if they are showing their fangs already.

  45. Not enough home-grown talent that thought the same way they did. Commisar Rachel is busy turning Alberta into the biggest political re-education camp outside of North Korea and she needs the right sort of people to do it. After all, we have to be taught the “error” of our past ways, right?
    As for not lasting their full term, that’s a possibility. I was finishing high school when Dave Barrett’s NDP was elected in B. C. I wasn’t the least bit surprised when they were booted out some 3 years later. The NDP never formed the provincial government again until, as I recall, the early 1990s.

  46. One thought nme666 again. Nothing original, nothing new, nothing to contribute to any discussion. Nothing.

  47. Who would have thought that when you scratch a dipper you find a totalitarian? Well pretty much everyone I suppose.

  48. I was visiting my father in B. C. on election day, having cast my ballot in an advance poll. I watched some of CTV’s coverage and wasn’t pleased about the results. I figured something like what we’re experiencing now would happen. Unfortunately, I was proven right.
    My father, on the other hand, couldn’t understand why I should be concerned but, then again, he said he didn’t pay attention to politics.

  49. I suspect all the people that are leaving the province are the same ones that voted NDP. You are right, they are weak and weak minded.

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