wWll I guess Jane figures if her friends (Lier's) can attack Mr. Morgan, than he's fair game, she such a loser. Mr. Morgan is all class, this is great loss for Canada.

I share Adam Dafalliah's confusion as to what Gidget Taber's job description is. On Question Period her unchallenged behaviour ranges back and forth between mock-serious journalism and Hedda Hopper/Ben Mulroney-style giggly gossip dispensing. Likewise, her Globe and Mail Column mixes "serious" reporting with her ongoing "who's hot, who's not" schtick. The only constant there is her face. She's like a memento mori of 90's GTA LPC-ism, who somehow manages to stick unpleasantly to the rear end of the fifth estate.

Her continued visibility and access to political movers and shakers obviously has more to do with the LPC's wet spots than with any insight or investigative skill on her part.

I think Taber has delusions of being the "hard-hitting reporter" that exposes the "hidden agenda" of the Fascist Party.
Her bitchy opening (isn't it hypocritical of you...") in the Rona Ambrose interview contrasts quite nicely with Ambrose cool professionalism.

If (or when?) Canada opts out of the useless Kyoto Accord, I imagine we'll see a textbook case of a few reporters "losing it".
In the meantime, it's fantastic to see how the new ministers are staying cool under the MSM pressure.
Gywn Morgan too...

I suspect the government media is seeing their senate retirement dreams package fall apart before their eyes.

What's your guess that Taber and few other media in Ottawa miss the wining and dining on the taxpayer's expence account; the parties and fun gigs and being sucked up to and treated as someone important with our dollars.

Must be a real blow to the Press Gallery - their party calendars from Conservatives are blank and they have to buy their own booze these days.

They are going through withdrawels - because they are so darned important and their opinions make them entitled to their entitlements.

We see organized crime and corruption and political influence these days fighting back like snarling cornered ugly wolves. Ain't pretty.

Morgan should have answered the question with a question - "Are you a liberal toady?"

It was quite a day for Jungle Jane and her guerilla journalism performance on Question period. More at;

http//syncrodox.blogspot.com

Syncro

Who is Jane Taber? Is she anybody important?

When will these entitled MSM hacks grow up? What a joke, a bad joke, these two interviews were! I've viewed them both on the CTV Web site and if I were Jane Taber I'd seriously think of taking a very long vacation and of getting a new "handler." She needs a total makeover.

I've written to Question Period and CTV News:

Any chance you could send Jane Taber back to Journalism 101? It's clear, from viewing her interviews of Rona Ambrose and Gwyn Morgan on yesterday's Question Period, that she has lost it as a professional journalist.

For starters, her opening questions to both Ambrose and Morgan--"Ms. Ambrose, is it not hypocritical and dishonest of you to continue as chair of these talks in Bonn [on toxic emissions, use of non-renewable resources, and the environment] when your strategy is to kill Kyoto?" and to Mr. Morgan, "Are you a bigot?"--were both deeply insulting and unprofessional.

Did she think these openings were zippy and a good way to draw in an audience? If this was her thinking and strategy, she badly miscalculated. What I saw was a rude harpy, an impudent, spoiled brat who, for some reason--'must be her myriad and long-time connections with the LPC--felt entitled to treat with contempt individuals who had taken the time to be interviewed, one of them being a government Minister.

The Canadian public, who are a little less brainwashed than the Libs and MSM types think and a great deal more intelligent than they are given credit for--are fed up with this guerrilla-style journalism, which assumes that all intelligent and with-it types are on the same page as the Jane Tabers of this world. I've got news for you and Ms. Taber. Most of us turned that page a long time ago.

Please inform Jane Taber that she needs to stop treating the duly elected representatives of the Canadian people with disdain and a total lack of graciousness. It is not Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his Ministers, and the members of the CPC caucus who are "hypocritical" and "dishonest" but, rather, members of the MSM, with Jane Taber being an all-too-typical example, who show contempt for democracy and a decided streak of cronyism and entitlement in their reporting, while all the while touting their moral superiority and that of the Liberals and the NDP.

Jane Taber lacks all credibility as an impartial reporter. She needs to be re-trained or taken off the beat.

Sincerely,

****

I missed that segment--I saw her trying her darndest to decimate Ambrose and couldn't stomach the program--went to TVO to watch the History of Britain, and found, to my dismay, that nothing has changed from the dark days of early England--we are still run by ignorant, criminal people and their supporters like Taber et al. Ethics and honesty are only words tossed about to cow the great unwashed. The very fact that Taber couldn't see the forest for the trees is a great indicator as to what the CPC is up against.
Haven't watched CTV for some time--thought I would give QP another chance yesterday, but nothing has changed. Disgusting--if this is journalism, bring on the cartoons. At the very least most people recognize them as fake.

When I think of Taber my mind instantly goes to an interview she did with Peter MacKay shortly after the election. She was shocked to hear that the Conservative child care plan included anything other than just the $1200/yr. For someone who (position, not person) you would normally expect had just spent two months closly following the campaigns she was obviously ignorant of the platforms.

Is she perhaps suffering from the Paul Martin affliction? That would be: Ambition wildly outrunning ability. Other than that I think she is under a lot of stress. Who knows what causes this stress. Might not even be her job!

I think a good technique to deal with these unprofessional journalists is to reverse the action: question them.

Let's say you are asked a stupid question as "Are you a bigot'? Since the only possible answer is 'No', then, the technique can be to ask Jane Taber:

1) Why are you asking me such a silly question?
She will then bluster about 'well, in your speech of....you said... and then..."

2)You then take her through that speech and ask her if such a statement as 'why should someone with an advanced degree be driving a taxi'.. expresses bigotry. Ask her the questions.

3)She'll bluster on to 'You said Jamaican gangs'..and you'll take her through reality, that there ARE gangs in Jamaica and they DO move the gang up to Toronto, linking the actions up with the 'Mother Gang' in Jamaica. Doesn't she know that? Is that a reality or bigotry? Ask her the questions.

If Jane Taber moves in on Rona Ambrose and Kyoto, you ask her - What is there about Kyoto that works for pollution reduction? And so on.

My point is that these unprofessional journalists are not interested in the truth; they are engaged in politics - and their agenda is to denigrate our CPC gov't. Therefore, you put them on the defensive, to get them to justify their already-formed opinions.

Duffy's show is filled with this unprofessional journalism; i.e., with interviewing geared to express his own already-formed opinion. He'll have three people dealing with one issue. There's one CPC individual - and two of the left, i.e., Liberal and NDP. So, it's always two who argue hotly against the lone Conservative, while Duffy sits back and smirks.
Newman has his versions of Taber; Lawrence Martin, Jim Travers and so on. They are all, uniformly, Liberal-Left.

Once in a while, the journalist will be shocked to get a commentator who stuns them by being pro-Harper. It's interesting to see what happens - the interviewer doesn't know what to do, to change the subject.

The problem is that the MSM are not interested in facts but in points-of-view - and, not in differing points-of-view but in promoting only one point-of-view - Liberal socialism.

On January 23, 2006...
Not only did we get a new govt.
A 5th party was also formed on that day...
The PITY PARTY...the 5th party is composed of all of the MSM...the Jane Tabers...the James Travers... the Susan Dellacourts etc...the press gallery in Ottawa...
They are constantly bellying up to the bar...like true Liberals all crying in their beer and popcorn...

On January 23, 2006...
Not only did we get a new govt.
A 5th party was also formed on that day...
The PITY PARTY...the 5th party is composed of all of the MSM...the Jane Tabers...the James Travers... the Susan Dellacourts etc...the press gallery in Ottawa...
They are constantly bellying up to the bar...like true Liberals all crying in their beer and popcorn...

Helen--absolutely correct--the MSM has their agenda--get the Liberals back so the bar is open 24/7. What a bunch of losers--and this is what we call a 'free' press--nothing 'free' about them--apparently they cost us plenty while they were slurping at the Liberal trough.

Until recently Jane Taber's reporting style could have been described as soft, bland and spineless. I think she's trying to get a little more hard hitting. On QP she looked like she was more than a little out of her element. My guess is her producers told her she needed to spice things up or risk finding herself reporting in the unemployement line.

"She's a woman who saw her chances at a Liberal senate appointment/diplomatic posting go up in flames on election night..."

Jane Taber should take a long vacation, and maybe a course in anger management. Too bad we are not going to see her as the next G.G. of Canada. The heart bleeds, I tell you.

Yeah, Joanne, poor Jane. Boo hoo.

Let's see. How many words rhyme with Jane?

Pain.
Insane
Vain
Reign: Not!
Bane (of the television viewer's existence)
Deign (to pretensions of being a professional)
Drain (as in down the)
Feign (intelligence)
Gain (as in what she did under the Librano$)
Inane
Mane (as in blonde and messy)
Stain (on professional journalisism, which is almost an oxymoron these days)
Wane (not waxing, that's for sure!)
Zany (if her nickname's Janey)

Taber is a disgrace--I too will write to CTV to complain. I could not believe the way she treated The Right Honourable Rona Ambrose, absolutely disgraceful and awful. What's wrong with asking questions with grace? Taber should go back to journalism school, preferably one that does not deal with the typical MSM liberal spin nonsense. Damn you MSM types--you're finished and you know it.

Now folks, we have to have some empathy for poor Jane.
Im sure she saw herself on the split screen with Minister Ambrose.
It had to be terribly depressing for the poor woman.

Lee, exactly what I said on Adam's site. Rona looked WAY better in her white jacket than Jane. Meow!

ah, "Honourable Rona Ambrose", the "Right" is reserved for the PM, the ex-PM's, and....? others.

It could have been worse. Taber could have keyed-off on the following Morganism (from that same Dec 7 Fraser Inst. speech):

..the sad result that Saskatchewan's most important export is its best and brightest people to Alberta...

and asked if he thought that the only people remaining in Sask. are .... (well, you know, how that question would end).

I only wish that 1)somebody in the MSM would actually study the Kyoto fraud and speak with some intelligence about it (Jane Taber showed herself to be particularly ignorant even saying "I don't understand this jargon"), and

2)the Conservatives would embark on a serious education of the Cdn. public to show them that Kyoto is mainly a wealth redistribution scheme to give money to a developing country from a developed country, a la Maurice Strong and the UN.
I often think that Hon. Ambrose does not put the facts in simple enough language so that it can be understood by the average Cdn.

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Guess all those Bush=Bashers about Kyoto should check out the history. It was their favourite Liberal Clinton and a unanimous 95-0 vote in ther Senate NOT to sign Kyoto in 1997.
Maybe Jane Giggles could interview Clinton on why HE opted the US out.

"Voting 95 to 0, the Senate approved a resolution [on July 25, 1997,] urging the Clinton administration not to sign the proposed climate-change pact later this year in Kyoto, Japan [...] Without [...] changes, the Senate signaled, the pact would have no hope of winning the two-thirds majority necessary for treaty ratification."
- Helen Dewar, "Senate Advises against Emissions Treaty That Lets Developing Nations Pollute"
Washington Post, July 26, 1997.

"The [Clinton] Administration today [(November 12, 1998)] signed the [Kyoto] agreement to fight global warming [...] But the Administration, as expected, will not yet submit the Kyoto Protocol for approval by the Senate, where it faces substantial opposition from critics who say the costs to industry will damage the economy."
- John H. Cushman, Jr., "US Signs a Pact to Reduce Gases Tied to Warming," New York Times, November 13, 1998.

The Clinton Administration never submitted the treaty to the Senate for ratification.

Richard: "Taber should go back to journalism school, preferably one that does not deal with the typical MSM liberal spin nonsense."

There is no such j-school in Canada (that I am aware of). That is why the great majority of print journalists, and electronic ones at CTV and Global, have a view of the world that does not necessarily take kindly to Conservatives.

Mark
Ottawa

Maybe someone here can enlighten me: what was wrong with her question?

Morgan had been pilloried in committee and across the land for his views. I would have thought that Taber's question was a "soft lob": it gave Morgan the chance to respond, at length, to his opponent.

Seems that people here want nothing but sweetness and submission when the person interviewed is a Conservative. Sorry, folks--that's not how it works.

I meant "opponents." Sorry.

Dr.Dawg: Surely we can both agree (regardless of this particular instance) that Giggles, of the "Hot and Not" schtick, is a pathetic simulacrum of a real journalist and would not have achieved such prominence elsewhere--except perhaps on Italian TV if she followed the Berlusconi line?

Mark
Ottawa

As Gossip Columnist Jane Taber has said many times: Scary Harper has never read history; nor can he add; why he's just an economist. Go figure.

Excerpt:

"[Louis] St. Laurent respected the press and media as having as important a job to do as Parliamentarians. But this did not mean that St. Laurent was willing to be 'scrummed.' Reporters would stand patiently in an East Block corridor waiting for cabinet meetings to end. When they approached the prime minister with a question about what had been discussed, he would usually cut them off curtly. 'You have no right whatsoever to examine my mind,' he'd tell them. 'if there will be some action, I will let you know.'"

————

"Whereas Diefenbaker relished the challenge of the corridor debates, Pearson found them impossible.... At the suggestion of press secretary Dick O'Hagan, the journalists were moved into a special conference room. ... Two long and trying years went by before Pearson finally banned this media circus from Parliament's hallways for the duration of his term in office."

— From Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media, by Allan Levine, 1993

Subject: The media forgets history
via voyforums
http://weblogs.macleans.ca/paulwells/

Hey, Dr. Dawg!

I'll tell you what's wrong with Taber's question:

Did you ever hear her, or any other interviewer, ask either Chretien or Martin, "Are you a crook?" after the Gomery Inquiry began unearthing a whole lotta unsavory Librano crapola? Or ask Hedy Fry, "Are you a bigot?" (Do you recall the burning crosses on every lawn incident Dr. D.?)

There are many ways to ask the same question, and Taber's approach lacked, shall we say, finesse.

I'd like to ask you a few questions, Dr. Dawg:

1) Did you see the interview?
2) If you did, what did you think of Gwyn Morgan's answer?
3) And if you didn't, do you think your question is legit?
4) You've asked only what's wrong with her question to Gwyn Morgan. What are your thoughts on her question to The Honourable Rona Ambrose?
5) Finally, who do you think looked better in their white jacket: Cupie-Doll Taber or Rona, Cool and Gracious under Pressure, Ambrose?

I dunno, guys. If I'd been roasted as a bigot for several days, and got my mug on CBC, I would have welcomed a question like that. Maybe it's just me.

(You should have seen what Andrew Coyne, filling in for Clare Hoy, did to me on Face Off once. But that's another story.)

Dr.Dawg: Meanwhile, what about Giggles as a journalist?

Mark
Ottawa

Someone should ask Taber about her hidden agenda.

virgil: To make as much money as Katie Couric
http://members.aol.com/flopez1542/page4.html

but Giggles suffers from visual and intellectual apprehension challenges.

Mark
Ottawa

All I can suggest is that Minister Ambrose and Mr. Morgan would both have been entitled to quote another famous Canadian; Dan Aykroyd: "Jane, you ignorant slut"
http://www.wavsource.com/tv/saturday_night1.htm

Another Sean,

Not to be SNL-pedantic, but wasn't Dan's actual quote "Jane, you ignorant, foul-mouthed slut"?

Dave,
He used different versions on multiple occasions. The WavSource site has 2 different versions for your listening pleasure...

Jane Taber is petulant because she and her buddies in the MSM can't get the Canadian people to see the airs of their ways i.e. Harper is doing a lousy job. A new poll coming out this week will show Harper in the mid 40s from what I hear.
As for Jane "What's that all about" Taber I have written a number of times to CTV news asking them to remove her as cohost but received no answer. Her interviews are atrocious. I have begun taping QP, Duffy and Newman so that I can fastforward them and keep my blood pressure in check.
This is what we get when we have common ownership between newspapers and television. They interview each other and bring their editorial biases to both mediums. If I hear one more time that Harper is petulant I don't know what I will do. Obviously it is the talking point of the week because I have heard it a number of times from reporters.

Broadcast this far and wide; Harper wins, again.

Stephen Harper vs. The Press

globalnational.com

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

OTTAWA -- The parliamentary press gallery launched its latest salvo Tuesday in an ongoing cold war with the Harper government over media access and procedures for reporting on federal politics.

Prior to the start of a news conference in which Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada would contribute $40 million in humanitarian and military assistance to the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, members of the press gallery simultaneously got up and left, moments before the prime minister arrived in the room, in an act of defiance against new news conference rules imposed against the media. ... via nealenews

I watched that announcement and never realized no reporters were present. Is it true that Craig Oliver is stepping down, about time. Too bad he will not get a patronage job. Is JVD on holidays or being kept off the air, same with Keith B, haven't seen them too often lately. These idiots haven't learned-don't mess with PMSH. He will get you and you wont even notice. Could he withdraw press privleges from all these wannabe important people. Would anyone notice if they never appeared again, would they be missed? Did anyone miss the conservative bashing conspiracy when it went on strike?

I watched CTV's Question Period for the first time today and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. Except for the first segment, with two commentators out of four (not including Craig Oliver) speaking to the Conservative side of the CPC/PPG issue, the rest of the hour-long program was overwhelmingly populated by media-friendly, Liberal friendly talking heads.

And, surprise, surprise! Jane Taber did not interview Joe Volpe. I wonder what that's all about? She told Mike Duffy on Friday that she would be interviewing him today and Mr. Volpe was nowhere to be found. Hmmm.

'Guess she and her producers knew the pressure would be on to see if she'd give Volpe the same rough ride she gave Rona Ambrose and Gwyn Morgan last week. 'Guess she didn't have the guts to ask Volpe point blank, "What's up with the $54,000 donation to your leadership bid, and from teenagers no less, and are the Liberals crooks?"

And the media says they're not biased? LOL.