I’ll be tied up in the paint booth today, so you’re on your own. Post your tips here, and I’ll be back later.
66 Replies to “Reader Tips, Open Thread”
jaymeister,
You make references to publications that in general have no relevance to the discussion.
Should we discuss a balance?
liberal newspapers: Globe and mail, toronto star, National Post, Montreal Gazette ,Ottawa Citizen ,Windsor Star ,Regina Leader-Post ,Saskatoon StarPhoenix ,Calgary Herald ,Edmonton Journal ,Vancouver Sun ,Vancouver Province ,Victoria Times-Colonist
Conservative: available in BC: 0
nationally: sun newspapers(allegedly)
liberal tv: ctv, cbc
conservative: 0
How many talk radio stations across canada are conservative? How many conservative hosts on these stations?
Who controls licensing of radio, tv and satellite broadcasting in candada? Who allows new MSM entrants? Want to buy a tv or radio, you gotta meet their standards. Who prevented Fox from being on cable yet allowed al jazeera?
Fair and balanced indeed.
Canada ranked as having 2nd most un-healthy organizational environments amongst 16 countries:
Most Organizations Are Unable To Turn Critical Decisions Into Action
European organizations are more effective than those in the U.S. � China reports a high rate of healthy organizations.
NEW YORK, November 1, 2005 � Most organizations exhibit “unhealthy” traits and behaviors that prevent them from turning decisions into action, according to new research by Booz Allen Hamilton. Globally, the U.S. has a higher rate of ineffective organizational profiles than every country in Europe. By contrast, China ranked near the top of the study in organizational health.
Booz Allen based its results on more than 50,000 responses to both an online evaluation tool and individual company surveys. The Org DNA ProfilerSM diagnoses distinct organizational personalities by examining a company’s structure, decision rights, motivators and information. Companies are then sorted into one of seven distinct organizational DNA profiles>>>> http://tinyurl.com/7ove9
Sorry ENOUGH,
I lost ya when you called the National Post left.
You may want to rethink that one.
Here’s a good one (via nealenews)
Layton sez Harper is no longer scary, just wrong.
Layton goes on to say that the majority of Canadians don’t hold the same views as Harper.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
How can any reporter type this stuff out and not bust a gut laughing? The leader of the perennially fourth party is talking about most Canadians not agreeing with another guy? Puh-leeeze!
Mississauga Matt, I don’t think MacKay would cross the floor during the election. But he wouldn’t mind losing this one perhaps, so Harper will be dumped and he’ll just endure another Lib minority until he’s crowned leader, then rally all the Quebec suspects behind him and voila! A new, made in Quebec Tory Party. And please don’t tempt fate by laughing at Layton. Here in BC, the NDP might just wipe out both Libs and Tories in Vancouver. Lots of tree huggers, welbie types, druggies, guilt-ridden yuppies and a few thousand Svend-types. God, I wish I could find an American to adopt me.
Jaymeister,
I agree with much that you say. Conservatives are in fact looking for a national media outlet that would be more “right-leaning” rather than “left-leaning”.
What bothers me, as a conservative, is that we are always being accused of intolerance, when in reality it is the “left-leaners” that are intolerant. Those Sun newspapers, which we all agree, are to the right of centre (Cdn perspective only) still allow people like Sheila Copps and Eric Margolis (nationally syndicated), Bill Kaufmann (here in Calgary) a forum to express their viewpoints. I ask where is the reciprocal treatment in the Globe & Mail, Star, CBC, CTV etc.?
For comparison sake only, I will bring up U.S. news coverage to make a point. When watching Fox News Sunday, Juan Willams (A liberal)is always allowed to have his say, on Question Period this past Sunday, they “interviewed” Jack Layton and Belinda Stronach, yet no individual Conservative to be seen, just the political strategistin a round table discussion.
I s Fox “fair and balnced’, NO. Does it allow a dissenting opinion herad now & then , YES. In baby steps, that is all this Conservative is asking for “Equal Time”, no more, no less.
Ken.
You hit the nail on the head. I fully agree that the conservative side gets short shrift in a lot of Canadian media, and understand your frustration. But I do believe that over time, if blogging activity indicates a certain critical mass, the market dictates that a commercial venue for conservative media will arise. I think that would be a healthy thing, but let’s call it conservative and not “non-liberal-biased”. (See, I’m not an unreasonable man.)
I have an idea for a commercial for the conservatives. Imagine the scene is set. Two teenage boys smoking a big fat dooby out side there high school, when a police car drives by. The one teen tries to hide the reefer but the other teen says� hey, don�t worry about it, smoking pot is legal now��. Then gently pan over to a Liberal lawn sign asking if this is the type of society you want your children raised in.
Anyone notice on the TV news how the pictures they had of the hostages just happened to be on a newspaper page right next to the “Harper Same Sex Marriage” story.
And again tonight on CBC there was a story about how much hard work it was to get elected with a gratuitous shot of a newspaper open to, wait for it, “Harper Promises SSM Vote”.
I propose a new drinking game, every time you see a reference to Harper and SSM in a child down a well story or a cat in a tree story you have to take a drink.
Or as an alternative, you could play it using every time the CBC mentions what a fabulous tax the GST really is you have to take a drink.
This works on several levels, because for me every time I see those hypocritic rats on CBC or CTV, I need a drink.
enough: Try CFRA, Ottawa, online: http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp
Especially:
Steve Madely
Lowell Green
John Counsell (an evangelical minister)
Nick at Night http://www.cfra.com/schedule/index.asp
And for an early Saturday morning dinosaur hoot:
“Senator Eugene Whelan’s Agriculture Hour”.
Mark
Ottawa
The Missionary Position (Updated)
Didya hear the joke about the 2 cannibals, who having just cooked their captured missionary, were preparing to bite in, one cannibal at the head, the other cannibal at the feet? Headman looks down to footman, and asks, “How ya doing down there?” Footman replies, “I’m having a —-.” >>>
Thursday, December 1, 2005 Posted at 6:04 PM EST
Canadian Press
Montreal � Jean Pelletier, former right hand man to Jean Chr�tien, is going to court to challenge the conclusions of the inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal.
The court challenge comes at the same time as one by former prime minister Chr�tien and highlights the sponsorship scandal as the Liberals are trying to distance themselves from it during the federal election campaign.
Mr. Pelletier’s lawyers filed the challenge in Federal Court shortly before it closed on Wednesday, claiming sponsorship inquiry chairman Justice John Gomery was biased, exceeded his mandate and based his report on erroneous facts. >> http://www.rapp.org/url/?1SCSTHXP
gobble & male
It wasn’t a sexual assault — it was sleep sex Sexomnia
A defense to rape that worked in Canada. At a trial, sleep experts testified that Jan Luedecke suffered from sexomnia. A judge then ruled Wednesday that the landscaper was essentially sleepwalking during sex and was not guilty of the rape….Four other women testified the Luedecke had previously had “sleep sex” with them as well, according to the report.
There�s a precedent for this.
I can�t remember much of the details, but there was a guy who got in his car, drove across Toronto, murdered his father-in-law, and then drove back home.
The judge let him off, believing the guy murdered while sleepwalking.
Haynes quits the Tories
A prominent Halifax Conservative has left the party and may run for the Liberals in the federal election.
Steve,
A prominent “Progressive” Conservative does not renew his membership and we should care.
Red tories like this and Joe Clark were just Liberals running for a different party.
Nice to see that effective leader Kim Campbell throwing her 2 cents in. As leader she won how many seats? So of course we should be paying attention to her.
enough
jaymeister,
You make references to publications that in general have no relevance to the discussion.
Should we discuss a balance?
liberal newspapers: Globe and mail, toronto star, National Post, Montreal Gazette ,Ottawa Citizen ,Windsor Star ,Regina Leader-Post ,Saskatoon StarPhoenix ,Calgary Herald ,Edmonton Journal ,Vancouver Sun ,Vancouver Province ,Victoria Times-Colonist
Conservative: available in BC: 0
nationally: sun newspapers(allegedly)
liberal tv: ctv, cbc
conservative: 0
How many talk radio stations across canada are conservative? How many conservative hosts on these stations?
Who controls licensing of radio, tv and satellite broadcasting in candada? Who allows new MSM entrants? Want to buy a tv or radio, you gotta meet their standards. Who prevented Fox from being on cable yet allowed al jazeera?
Fair and balanced indeed.
Canada ranked as having 2nd most un-healthy organizational environments amongst 16 countries:
Most Organizations Are Unable To Turn Critical Decisions Into Action
European organizations are more effective than those in the U.S. � China reports a high rate of healthy organizations.
NEW YORK, November 1, 2005 � Most organizations exhibit “unhealthy” traits and behaviors that prevent them from turning decisions into action, according to new research by Booz Allen Hamilton. Globally, the U.S. has a higher rate of ineffective organizational profiles than every country in Europe. By contrast, China ranked near the top of the study in organizational health.
Booz Allen based its results on more than 50,000 responses to both an online evaluation tool and individual company surveys. The Org DNA ProfilerSM diagnoses distinct organizational personalities by examining a company’s structure, decision rights, motivators and information. Companies are then sorted into one of seven distinct organizational DNA profiles>>>>
http://tinyurl.com/7ove9
Sorry ENOUGH,
I lost ya when you called the National Post left.
You may want to rethink that one.
Here’s a good one (via nealenews)
Layton sez Harper is no longer scary, just wrong.
Layton goes on to say that the majority of Canadians don’t hold the same views as Harper.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
How can any reporter type this stuff out and not bust a gut laughing? The leader of the perennially fourth party is talking about most Canadians not agreeing with another guy? Puh-leeeze!
Mississauga Matt, I don’t think MacKay would cross the floor during the election. But he wouldn’t mind losing this one perhaps, so Harper will be dumped and he’ll just endure another Lib minority until he’s crowned leader, then rally all the Quebec suspects behind him and voila! A new, made in Quebec Tory Party. And please don’t tempt fate by laughing at Layton. Here in BC, the NDP might just wipe out both Libs and Tories in Vancouver. Lots of tree huggers, welbie types, druggies, guilt-ridden yuppies and a few thousand Svend-types. God, I wish I could find an American to adopt me.
We’ve taken up the Peter Kent Challenge and have analyzed bias in (local) media coverage of the election thus far with 2 posts-
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2005/11/peter-kent-challenge-free-press.html
and
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2005/12/peter-kent-challenge-exhibit-b.html
Jaymeister,
I agree with much that you say. Conservatives are in fact looking for a national media outlet that would be more “right-leaning” rather than “left-leaning”.
What bothers me, as a conservative, is that we are always being accused of intolerance, when in reality it is the “left-leaners” that are intolerant. Those Sun newspapers, which we all agree, are to the right of centre (Cdn perspective only) still allow people like Sheila Copps and Eric Margolis (nationally syndicated), Bill Kaufmann (here in Calgary) a forum to express their viewpoints. I ask where is the reciprocal treatment in the Globe & Mail, Star, CBC, CTV etc.?
For comparison sake only, I will bring up U.S. news coverage to make a point. When watching Fox News Sunday, Juan Willams (A liberal)is always allowed to have his say, on Question Period this past Sunday, they “interviewed” Jack Layton and Belinda Stronach, yet no individual Conservative to be seen, just the political strategistin a round table discussion.
I s Fox “fair and balnced’, NO. Does it allow a dissenting opinion herad now & then , YES. In baby steps, that is all this Conservative is asking for “Equal Time”, no more, no less.
Ken.
You hit the nail on the head. I fully agree that the conservative side gets short shrift in a lot of Canadian media, and understand your frustration. But I do believe that over time, if blogging activity indicates a certain critical mass, the market dictates that a commercial venue for conservative media will arise. I think that would be a healthy thing, but let’s call it conservative and not “non-liberal-biased”. (See, I’m not an unreasonable man.)
I have an idea for a commercial for the conservatives. Imagine the scene is set. Two teenage boys smoking a big fat dooby out side there high school, when a police car drives by. The one teen tries to hide the reefer but the other teen says� hey, don�t worry about it, smoking pot is legal now��. Then gently pan over to a Liberal lawn sign asking if this is the type of society you want your children raised in.
Anyone notice on the TV news how the pictures they had of the hostages just happened to be on a newspaper page right next to the “Harper Same Sex Marriage” story.
And again tonight on CBC there was a story about how much hard work it was to get elected with a gratuitous shot of a newspaper open to, wait for it, “Harper Promises SSM Vote”.
I propose a new drinking game, every time you see a reference to Harper and SSM in a child down a well story or a cat in a tree story you have to take a drink.
Or as an alternative, you could play it using every time the CBC mentions what a fabulous tax the GST really is you have to take a drink.
This works on several levels, because for me every time I see those hypocritic rats on CBC or CTV, I need a drink.
enough: Try CFRA, Ottawa, online:
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp
Especially:
Steve Madely
Lowell Green
John Counsell (an evangelical minister)
Nick at Night
http://www.cfra.com/schedule/index.asp
And for an early Saturday morning dinosaur hoot:
“Senator Eugene Whelan’s Agriculture Hour”.
Mark
Ottawa
The Missionary Position (Updated)
Didya hear the joke about the 2 cannibals, who having just cooked their captured missionary, were preparing to bite in, one cannibal at the head, the other cannibal at the feet? Headman looks down to footman, and asks, “How ya doing down there?” Footman replies, “I’m having a —-.” >>>
Thursday, December 1, 2005 Posted at 6:04 PM EST
Canadian Press
Montreal � Jean Pelletier, former right hand man to Jean Chr�tien, is going to court to challenge the conclusions of the inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal.
The court challenge comes at the same time as one by former prime minister Chr�tien and highlights the sponsorship scandal as the Liberals are trying to distance themselves from it during the federal election campaign.
Mr. Pelletier’s lawyers filed the challenge in Federal Court shortly before it closed on Wednesday, claiming sponsorship inquiry chairman Justice John Gomery was biased, exceeded his mandate and based his report on erroneous facts. >> http://www.rapp.org/url/?1SCSTHXP
gobble & male
It wasn’t a sexual assault — it was sleep sex
Sexomnia
A defense to rape that worked in Canada. At a trial, sleep experts testified that Jan Luedecke suffered from sexomnia. A judge then ruled Wednesday that the landscaper was essentially sleepwalking during sex and was not guilty of the rape….Four other women testified the Luedecke had previously had “sleep sex” with them as well, according to the report.
There�s a precedent for this.
I can�t remember much of the details, but there was a guy who got in his car, drove across Toronto, murdered his father-in-law, and then drove back home.
The judge let him off, believing the guy murdered while sleepwalking.
Haynes quits the Tories
A prominent Halifax Conservative has left the party and may run for the Liberals in the federal election.
Steve,
A prominent “Progressive” Conservative does not renew his membership and we should care.
Red tories like this and Joe Clark were just Liberals running for a different party.
Nice to see that effective leader Kim Campbell throwing her 2 cents in. As leader she won how many seats? So of course we should be paying attention to her.
enough