On his misrepresentation of the Conservative tax policy platform – at CBC Watch.
MacDonald pulled a similar stunt a couple of nights earlier when exerpting the contents of the infamous “Chapter 5” of the AG report – suggesting there was nothing there to see.
| Flashback – In 2004, MacDonald received an award for his reporting on Israel. |  |
As an addendum – I did something I rarely do anymore, and watched both the CBC and CTV national news. The contrast between the coverage of Paul Martin’s appearance before a seniors group by the two networks was remarkable. CBC mentioned the event was dominated by questions about Options Canada. CTV pulled the cameras back and revealed it was a media frenzy, generated by Martin’s bringing the questions to an abrupt close, as he tried to make an escape. Then, Tom Clark mentioned yet another leak of the next day’s platform announcment on the environment.
In the comments, Chuck raises another – the story the same night on CBC about the “costs” of keeping criminals in jail under mandatory sentencing. Yes, I thought it was ridiculously transparent as well.
Hard to believe the Mother Corpse keeps him around. You can only imagine what the Tories could do with the CBC budget. We’d all be paying 5% income tax.
For the first time in weeks, I watched The National last night and heard MacDonald’s biased report. I wrote a complaint to the CBC Ombudsman this morning and hope others to the same. Enough!
I vote to give Neil MacDonald and the whole CBC a ‘Reality Check’ on January 24, by canning the lot of them.
There won’t be any further need for Librano fart-catchers on the air after Team Martin is wiped out at the polls.
Yeah, well it doesn’t matter, because the CPC has just given the Liberals a rally cry … “They will INCREASE taxes”.
Lest you think I’m being a bit sensitive on this, consider Coyne’s take:
http://andrewcoyne.com/2006/01/speaking-of-tipping-points.php
reality check is that this country has allowed state run television to continue, The so called journalist can’t even write the script without big brother approving. this network has blead the taxpayer’s for far too long. Maybe they should start holding telethon’s for there monies, TV Ontario has too! They only have a few shows worth watching anyways. Look at all the recent problem’s with CBC Regina, Incorrect info with 2second appology, CURLING ON COUNTRY CANADA PAY TV, STRIKES, LIBERAL HIRED HANDS AT THE TOP WITH NEXT TO NONE TELEVISION EXP. THE LIST GOES ON & ON like the everready rabbit, answer abolish & let them do like TV ontario dig up your own support with quality tv NOT SOCIALISTIC, BIG BROTHER DO AS I SAY COMRADE TV.
Harper just out talking about it now- with details.
Kenney jumped the gun. ( sorry –not allowed here)
jumped the tubular metal thing.
I watched MacDonald’s story last night and actually laughed out loud… whether you like them or not, everyone knows Harper’s position on tax cuts … the CBC has its own agenda – the protection of the CBC
MacDonald became an embarrassment to the CBC on the Mideast beat, had to be pulled out, but not punished, so he’s still at it, a paradigm example of “a fish doesn’t know it’s wet” when it comes to liberal media bias.
Maybe I’m being too sensitive but it seemed that the next story about mandatory minimum sentences also took a swipe at the Tories due to the cost of keeping convicts in jail longer and the fact that it “doesn’t work”. I know all the parties are now on the law and order bandwagon but the CPC got the ball rolling and I think they intend to be toughest, thus they will spend the most money on “ineffective” methods. It certainly seemed like that was the thrust of the story but maybe I’m just overreacting.
As of Saturday afternoon CTV is still showing the gruesome Liberal campaign stop, with PMPM pulling away from the mic and the reporters after him like a pack of wolves on a bone …
All I can say is “bless you CTV.”
Can’t wait to see what is done with Martin’s pledge to clean up the Great Lakes. Hope the MSM is fed all the facts on CSL’s polluting of same.
Perspective: Forced to pay for what we refuse to watch.
Audience share: Nil for 98% of Canadians. Why give them free coverage here? MacDonald who? ??
CBC: $1 billion in taxes, 5.8% Audience Share. Forced to pay for …
CBC: $1 billion in taxes, 5.8% Audience Share. Forced to pay for what we refuse
to watch. Which funding formula would be best? …
http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/88 – 24k –
There is no end of CBC propaganda and the most stealthy and successful has been the very real hurdle of the *fear Harper agenda*. So my argument is…
While my personal politics don’t really matter, I think it is important to talk to as many undecided voters as possible and present this overview.
Liberal Voter ? Me too, but,
This time I’m voting for Harper because the Liberals need a time out to clear out the dead wood and renew . Respect for liberals is at such a low ebb, that if elected as a weak minority, the Liberal Party could go out in flames just as the Social Credit party did in B.C.
Industrialist Paul Martin at the helm makes the Liberals more of a Conservative Corporate party rather than a true Liberal party. Martin fired his Canadian marine crews and hired on non-union Central and South American crews. He also registered his Canadian Steamship Lines in Barbados in order to avoid paying Canadian taxes.
Those moves are acceptable for an industrialist but they are not appropriate for the Prime Minister of Canada. Martin is banking on the fact that most Canadian voters simply do not have the time to read the news in detail in these busy modern times.
You may be aware of the Sponsorship scandal, but that is only the tip of a very big iceberg. There are well over 200 losses and thefts of Canada’s public funds and the list is still growing.
http://BendGovernment.blogspot.com
http://Scamslist.blog.com
These losses run well into the billions of dollars and have contributed to the loss of services in emergency hospital departments and countless other areas.
Time for a Conservative vote. If the Harper team fails to do the job, we can always vote the Liberals back in and by that time the Liberals will have a new respect for integrity and efficiency.
Sound logical? TG
add the 3500$ per viewer it costs to keep PRAVDA afloat to each viewers cable bill and see the last 5.8% disappear.
Once this election is decided can you imagine being an out of work former CBC turd polisher and having to submit your resume for a job to any company other than another low life Liberal trough feeding orginazation.
A deck hand on CSL or houseboy/girl for Maurice Strong won’t come with the same fringe benefits package that we the Canadain tax payers have doled out over the years to the CBC.
Kate:
Re: Your addendum…
I think you watched both programmes for the same reason I did. It’s the same reason a friend of mine goes to sci-fi movies, even though he hates the genre and thinks the whole concept is stupid he is fascinated with the special effects.
We know the content is either biased or suspect. Watching the BIAS is interesting, not the content.
“The medium IS the message”
BTW, again well done with the “Roundtable” stuff.
I watched both newscasts on CTV and CBC. The difference in the two was breathtaking. I wonder how Fife from CTV has lasted this long covering the Liberal campaign with his negative but true reporting.
Last night’s Reality Check on CBC was blatantly biased and an attempt to put the CPC on the defensive. The sad part was that the full platforms of all the parties have not been released and therefore MacDonald et al have no knowledge of what’s to come.
I can’t wait to see Newman, MacDonald and Mansbridge begging for donations on the air as any public broadcaster does in the real world. The days of the taxpayer subsidizing is probably coming to an end and the CBC brass knows this. The lack of support for CBC was clearly evident when they went on strike. Nobody was pushing to settle the strike because the public could care less about CBC.It is unfair for CTV and Global having to go head to head with a TV media outlet that receives a $billion of taxpayers money to do virtually the same thing while they have to raise their revenue solely from advertising dollars.
Were the CBC upset with Neil “Israel-hater” MacDonald’s obfuscation they would have fired him long before now. They are just as complicit in this latest half-truth as their biased reporter.
The bigger question: Have we all sent letters to the ombudsman about this?
Penning mine now.
Given Kate receives thousands of hits per day, wouldn’t it be awesome if some 3000 letters appeared in the ombudsman’s mailbox on Monday AM?!
Yes, but what about the RHINO PARTY? We haven’t heard from them in this election. What’s up?
Perhaps they might have some new planks in their platform like:
http://www.thiscanada.com/2006/01/07/rhino-party-adds-new-platform-plank/
Enjoy, Erik
Perhaps I’m too sensitive but I can’t believe all the CTV commendations. I find the CTV to be very biased as well, just not as bad as the CBC. Fife? Wow, can that guy throw anymore softballs. I’m sorry, the CTV is horrible too, lets remember, this is an election campaign and the Liberals have had at least two scandels that came to the forefront. The media should be ALL OVER this and the CBC and CTV are not. They are both protecting their beloved Liberals, one just somewhat worse than the other.
eric is right the lib war room spinners will be on o/t tonite in order to get this into the media full blast monday before the debates, also most likely martin will be in front of the mirror before the debates working the chest & jowels,I can here it now, I will not raise your taxes, but harper will as loud & mad as he can. I hope Stephen can get the damage control going. Let’s hope that this is not a repeat of 2004, cpc has a great mommentum going.
Two points:
1. Did you watch the Royal Canadian Air Farce last night. They had a lot of good zingers for the Liberanos. Stronach, Pettigrew, Martin and all. Repeated Monday night at 7:00 P.M. PST.
2. Reporters are like pirahna (sp?). When they smell blood, they’re in a frenzy. The trouble is that the viewing public cannot establish the difference between objective reporting and media frenzy.
Mike
Agree with Vin 03:56. We’re cheering on CTV because they are only p#ssing on us instead of sh#tting on us like Pravda.
Martin vows to clean up Canadian waterways
Updated Sat. Jan. 7 2006 2:54 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff >>
Exposed:Martin’s CSL pollutes the Great Lakes>>
Sweeping It Under
Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry�s cleanup practices
BY Alex Roslin
The dirtiest job on the ship was understandably the one Jim Macdonald dreaded most. During his years as chief engineer for Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), aboard carriers including the CSL Tadoussac, Macdonald oversaw the offloading of 25,000 tons of iron ore at the Port of Hamilton on each journey. Now 70 and retired, Macdonald recalls his voyages aboard the 730-foot-long Tadoussac�how, in the late 1980s, the Tadoussac would head back to the far end of Lake Superior to pick up a fresh ore load at Thunder Bay. After a short catnap while the vessel eased through the locks of the Welland Canal, it would be time to clean out the ship. This meant dumping into the water tens of thousands of marble-sized ore pellets that didn�t make it off at port. >>>
http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2005/09/sweepingitunder.php
Mark, I sent my letter off while I was watching the report. As I said on another Blog site, you have to excuse Peter Mansbridge, they promised him an ‘Elton John’ weave if he went along with it…
To the CBC: the cost to keep my family safe from DRUG DEALING GUN TOTING RAPIST & MOLESTERS “PRICELESS”
To the CBC: I forgot one KILLERS, thanks
Slightly off topic, but I just read an interesting item on CTV’s site concerning the size of the crowd at a Stephen Harper rally. It got me to thinking that I have been totally unable to estimate the number of people at any election rally due to the to the camera angles on ALL TV network reports. I was involved in Preston Manning’s campaign years ago, and found the size of crowds coming out was a very good indicator of whether a campaign was going up or down. Any feedback on the various campaigns? I have a sneaking suspicion of where the bigger crowds are going, and why the media isn’t letting us see them.
I am concerned that perhaps, arguably, the CBC is not run in a completely financially efficient way and that maybe there may be a slight possible leaning in a certain political direction – whichever direction that happens to be – from time to time.
Bryan–thank you–that was my exact thought when the economic cost was their only concern–what about the human cost for letting these criminals out time and time again–that is negligible in Liberal eyes–once again we see that honest citizens matter not one iota to the Liberal criminal lovers
The beauty is that there are fewer than a million Canadias watching CBC new and most of them are same ones who have always watched it. They are mindless leftists who are of little consequence in the bigger picture.
The CBC has been losing credibility for years now and is widely known as a very expensive hang out for Marxists. Given enough time in power, we can only hope the CPC will religate the CBC to public broadcasting that must do it’s own fund raising.
Asses like Neil McDonald will have to retire or get a real job. Can you think of anyone who would hire this fat commie?
I, like others occasionally watch CBC for a cynical laugh and nothing more.
Please forward this to Neil MacDonald on �CBC Watch�, I haven�t been approved for membership in that fine organization
Conservatives increasing taxes- really now.
Yeah sure, the Conservatives are the party of high taxes and the Liberals low taxes. What planet are you from Mr. MacDonald?
Where is Mr. MacDonalds journalistic integrity? It appears that he doesnt have any. Neil, this is a classic example of “yellow jounalism” at its finest. I hope that you choke while ‘drinking your own bathwater’.
Here is what I wrote the CBC today
I want to formally complain on Neil Macdonld’s report last nite on the National of the Reality Check.
That was not worthy of a grade 3’ers version of the truth and how will I know of the response of CBC management to this bit of biased garbage that is supposed to be reporting can you tell me or will we not be assured this type of conduct will be dealt with. Can we send him back to Iraq?
I now consider the CBC to be a left-wing special interest group receiving a billion tax dollars a year just to say bad stuff about anyone who isn’t Liberal or leftist.
They’re no different from an organization advocating, on the public dime, say, for transvestite polka-dancing terrorists or something. Why do we need the CBC? It’s not as if it’s telling us the truth about us or about our federation, including its true history. They prefer fluffy socialist/social reengineering propaganda and do pretty much nothing else.
I hope their funding is phased out and eventually they’ll have to depend on the generousity of the unemployed moonies and miserly millionaires like Paulie M. who ever bother to watch their propaganda.
Time for a Conservative vote. If the Harper team fails to do the job, we can always vote the Liberals back in and by that time the Liberals will have a new respect for integrity and efficiency.
Sound logical? TG
Very logical! I think it would be great if true supporters of the Liberal Party felt this way. The current Liberal party is a joke, and they definitely need some time out.
This is Macdonald’s “Reality Check” in a nutshell:
“Are you actually considering voting Conservative? Time for a Reality Check.”
Neil MacDonald doesn’t care about truth or integrity. He’s a classic Liberal-left apparatchik yes-man who’ll gladly say anything he’s told in exchange for his generous compensation courtesy of you and me, the taxpayer, who really just want the truth and nothing more from a news outlet.
Neil MacDonald would feel equally comfortable reading the news on Syrian or Cuban state tv or Al-Jazeera.
Watch for a scorched earth senate appointment for Mansbridge and MacDonald courtesy of Paul Martin, especially if this turns the tide of Tory fortunes. I hope somebody is on top of this, although Harper has said all along they would be releasing the rest of their policy later in the campaign.
I think the CBC should be charged under the gag law. They are clearly a 3rd party advertiser for the Liberals. Only in CBC reality land is a tax cut that doesn’t happen in ignoring other aspects, a tax increase, as McDonald characterized it. I guessed the ongoing scandals and further evidence of corruption needed to be co-opted by “Conservative tax hikes.” Luckily, the Canadian public seems to now recognize a pig in a poke (except the 30% of so core Liberal vote, which clearly includes McDonald). But then again, McDonald believes we shouldn’t put people in jail because it costs too much. No need to calculate the cost to the people and communities violent criminals terrorize. I get the feeling McDonald has already been “excluded” by Canadian society. His bias reveals his incompetence as a journalist.
Just sent my letter to the CBC. Hope it does some good and we see a retraction on Monday or sooner.
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The comments and report made by Neil MacDonald on the Reality Check portion of The National last night, where both disgusting, biased and untruthful. For this person to call himself a reporter, is a joke. His one sided reporting against the Conservative Party, without a single interview, to get they’re perspective, is nothing short of criminal.
I would expect the CBC to look into this and take the appropriate action to correct this one sided journalism, on the part of they’re employee.
being a journalist is a prerequisite for the plumest of all jobs, the Governor General ,—–so of course they plan on sucking up to the Idi Amins in power.( one of Idi’s titles was “conqueror of the British Empire”for getting rid of the British Influence-like our own Pierre)
as well there will be a raft of senatorships given out before the Liberal ship sinks. — a partisan one will be to Joe Clark for continuously making the wrong choice for over 30 years running.Kneel MacDonald would be looking for free employment where he can rail against the Conservatives as well.there will be just as many listening him in the house of sober second thought as on the news—none.
Am I the only CPC supporter that can properly use there, their and they’re? I hope there aren’t any educated undecided voters reading this blog.
Libs are now using CBCPravda as their source material on their site.
Its another branch of the great incestous mess.
Kate – next Roundtable you may want to comment on this relationship. but it may be your last public sponsored blog.
CBC is skating on thin ice. Throwing this election in the direction of the lying, cheating, power-hungry thieving Libranos will steel my resolve to have the CBC completely disbanded.
Who the hell do they think they are?
I bet the CBC is Shaken in their boots to see that you’re resolved to see them disbanded.
Depressing as it might be, but there will be no change at CBC, regardless of who wins the election. Harper wouldn’t have the guts to cut CBC’s funding and/or clean it up in any meaningful way. (The Liberals are of course very happy with the current situation.)
I have an idea, what if everyone who doesn’t likes them just refuses to watch the CBC. That way, the advertisers realize there’s no money to be made on CBC. Then the revenue will stop flowing and the ONLY way for them to survive is with oodles of taxpayer grants. Then we follow the inevitible corruption that follows oodles of Liberal politically motivated taxpayer grants.
Then we shut down the CBC.
When I grew up in the Arctic town of Inuvik the CBC was wonderful. At dawn, it would show the flag flapping in the wind while the national anthem played. A real unifying force. Some of CBC radio still gives me that feeling.
But CBC television? The news is just awful. It’s so intellectually shallow that it actually puts me to sleep. And considering that it’s supposed to be a Canadian broadcaster why the hell does it keep showing left-wing documentaries about the US?
I think the CANADIAN broadcasting Corp. runs more documentaries on racism in the South and neo-cons in the White House than CNN. So God knows why we as Canadians have to pay for that mush.
Well I’ve watched more than enough of CBC and CTV today.
The CBC is pushing the “CPC to undo tax cut” nonsense hard. CTV on the other hand is pretty much ignoring it, and instead is running Fife’s spot on Paul Martin answering questions about ITscam and Options Canada.
All I saw from CTV about the CPC undoing the Liberal tax cut was on CTV Newsnet’s stupid news thingy that scrolls along at the bottom of the screen. It scrolls by so fast that you miss it if you blink.
It has been so obvious on various issues. As stated by others both the tax cut and jail “costing” issues were as transparent as could be possible. As I am reading previous comments the same thought came to as when cal2 states “Kate – next Roundtable you may want to comment on this relationship. but it may be your last public sponsored blog.” It would be a bold stroke. Once thought over though I am of the opinion that Kate’s presense there on a on going basis is needed more. Thanks Kate.
I think everyone who’s ever (been forced) to watch Neil McDonald’s style of reporting has come to the same conclusion.
Neil hates everything American, Conservative, or Jewish.
Imagine how the poor Conservative Jew in New York must feel?