16 Replies to “Fair”

  1. Newsweek –
    ‘Our Job Is To Bash the President’
    Canadian MSM –
    “Our job is to restore Canada’s ‘natural governing Party’ to Power and bash Stephen Harper and his conservative ideology!”
    Joe Molnar – “And facilitate Liberal corruption and governing malfeasance “- Joe Molnar

  2. I’ve been on glorious holidays in warm places this last 5 weeks and I’m reminded of the saying,” same crap different day”, when it comes to catching up on media garbage.
    In the real world, winning for the day is much more important to the creppy media than the welfare of our children and grandchildren.
    To watch the media giants destroy our future is disgusting.

  3. The MSM mouths utopian platitudes and delivers partisan or counter productive journalism.
    We all have to realize in the traditional ideal political climate of parliamentary democracy ( and the US system is based on this as well) the credo of the system is that it is CINFRONTATIONAL.
    This means debate becomes heated but the outcome is dialectic. The media has a role in presenting the argument made in the confrontaional political public forms to the citizenry…they have even been recognized for this duty by being deemed a “4th estate” of society.
    I think where the modern media has strayed from their traditional roll as insighters and reporters of the confrontational political process from one of observer to participant.
    These mooks talk like they must take up the torch for the minority because they feel it is not doing a sufficient “bashing” of the government.
    Similarly in Canada we saw the same attitude from the Ottawa MSM when they had their snit over Harper’s press rules and many expressed their roll as being a defacto government opposition.
    Modern confrontational political realities are so Byzantine the last thing we need is the media installing itself as one of the combatants.
    Please report and stop participating in the parliamentary system.
    The last week’s performance of the partisan Canadian MSM has made me realize they no longer serve a infroming role, they serve as extentions of political parties/agendas/movements and as such are part of the problem.

  4. “Thomas also believed this ‘mainstream’ media would be worth ‘maybe 15 points’ to John Kerry in 2004, which didn’t exactly work out”
    I beg to differ. I think it’s entirely possible that the MSM did deliver their 15 points to Kerry; he just couldn’t deliver the other 36.

  5. Speaking of fair and balanced, just the other day I complained to AM 640 about a news item they had in which 5 seconds of PM Stephen Harper was followed by 30 seconds of rebuttal by some university professor.
    I asked if it was their normal habit to rebut the PM, if it was regular procedure to present opinion as news, if they hired just anyone to do so (I suggested they do given that they picked a prof), and if I could be hired to do rebutting.
    I got back a “we’re being fair and balanced” reply, which is a bunch of baloney.

  6. Bang on Matt. Just like CBC radio, or Pravda as I call it. They’ll typically have a ‘report’ (propaganda) which is basically Democrats bashing Bush. Then in the interest of fairness, they’ll have some ‘Republicans’ bashing Bush. How do we know they’re Republicans? Because Pravda told us so.

  7. Yes, tom. I recall Anna Maria Tremonti going on last week about the Conservative “attack” ads, suggesting that they were “vicious personal attacks”, although never actually explaining how one might draw that conclusion. It occurred to me that nothing in those ads even approached the level of “vicious personal attack” that characterize every single report from CBC’s “Washington correspondent”, Michael Coulton. Listen carefully to Coulton’s reports; the first phrase that comes to mind is: “Little bitch.”

  8. A digression, but I’m sure Kate will be opening a thread shortly for the news of Garth joing the Liberals.
    Lots of interesting comments on his blog about what he thinks of Liberals.
    Like this one…
    http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/2/?cat=6
    Turner: “When Finance Minister Jim Flaherty stands in his place in the House of Commons next Tuesday afternoon at 4 pm and stares into a packed chamber, his budget speech words will waft a few feet across the green carpet, past the temporary leader of the opposition, and into the ears of Liberal finance critic John McCallum. It will be the first time in McCallum’s political career that he has ever listened to anything other than a Grit budget. I am sure it will kill him.”
    I guess now he’ll have only GOOD THINGS to say about McCallum and others.
    Hypocrite.

  9. AdScam Martin “asked that the media be excluded from his remarks.”?
    Rewrite: AdScam Martin ordered/commanded “that the media be excluded from his remarks.” The media would stifle Martin? Fundamentally stifle Martin? …-
    Martin talks up Grits
    The former prime minister addresses key local Liberals at a fundraiser in London. (cnews)
    …
    Martin, a finance minister before becoming prime minister, spoke about the future of Canada’s economy and climate change with party faithful, but asked that the media be excluded from his remarks.
    Dave Broostad, president of the LNC Liberals, said Martin wants to deliver off-the-cuff remarks and have some fun without the media which might have stifled the affair. …-

  10. CBCpravda “all liberal , all the time”
    CTV(Tass) reporting Harpers speech” and here are pravdas headlines.
    Independent MP Garth Turner to join Liberals
    Independent Ontario MP Garth Turner, who left the Conservative caucus late last year, will join the Liberal party. more » Tax cuts, Senate reform among PM’s priorities
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his key priorities for the future in what was billed as a mini-speech from the throne, promising tax cuts, a fix to the fiscal imbalance and senate reform. more »
    Winnipeg girl cannot turn down transfusions, appeal court rules
    A Winnipeg teenager who is a Jehovah’s Witness cannot refuse a blood transfusion, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday. more »
    ‘Confused’ young mother put baby on doorstep: police
    The mother of a baby abandoned outside a Saskatoon home in freezing weather has been described by police as a confused and isolated 18-year-old with no supports in the city. more »
    Toronto FC hosts Beckham, Galaxy on Aug. 5
    David Beckham, the biggest name in Major League Soccer, could make his North American debut Aug. 5 in Toronto when the Los Angeles Galaxy visit Canada’s new expansion team, FC. more »
    Human rights body reconsiders Inuit climate change petition
    In a surprising about-face, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has decided it will hold a hearing on whether climate change is a human rights violation. more »
    Loneliness linked to Alzheimer’s risk
    People who are lonely may be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease late in life compared with those who interact more socially, a new study suggests. more »
    U.S. pilots wept, swore after firing on British
    An American fighter pilot wept and another said he was going to be sick after learning they had mistakenly fired on a British military convoy in Iraq, according to a cockpit videotape released by a London newspaper. more »
    Lovelorn NASA astronaut to face attempted murder charge
    A NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a romantic rival for a space shuttle pilot’s affections will remain in jail because authorities plan to charge her with attempted first-degree murder. more »
    Tamil stamp not a seal of approval: Canada Post
    Canada Post is defending one of its programs after a family created a customized stamp honouring a Montreal Tamil separatist who advocated violence. more »
    More Headlines »

  11. Good news on the fair and balanced front.
    http://www.thestar.com/article/178571
    Businessman wins case against Star
    Jury awards $1.5 million in damages, finding paper libelled golf-course owner
    The Star then whines its way through the article claiming fairness and balance.

  12. Fair and balanced?
    CTV today reported on allegations against some Canadian soldiers for abusing captured Taliban many months ago.
    Immediately after the news piece was aired, Steven Staples from the left wing Polaris institute (whatever that is) gave his slanted take on the allegations.
    Somalia and the Airborne were immediately mixed into his narrative.
    No other guest was then brought in for another perspective on the latest allegations.
    Fair and balanced reporting?
    Bullsh**!!
    Bringing in the leftist angle simply reinforced a onesided view over an allegation by an unhappy taliban supporter.
    CTV – All the news that’s fit to “torque.”

  13. “Thomas also believed this ‘mainstream’ media would be worth ‘maybe 15 points’ to John Kerry in 2004, which didn’t exactly work out”
    I beg to differ. I think it’s entirely possible that the MSM did deliver their 15 points to Kerry; he just couldn’t deliver the other 36.
    Posted by: Joan Tintor at February 6, 2007 10:21
    Joan,
    I agree completely. Thirty years ago Dalton Camp -citing the fact that the candidate who lost the election had spent the most money- argued that campaign spending had no effect on elections.Naturally my letter to the editor explaining why he was wrong was never published.
    Can you imagine whar % of the vote the CPC would receive if it received the same coverage from the MSM as the Liberals and NDP.

  14. He NEEDS bashing! He is the WORST president in the history of the USA!
    There were NO weapons of mass destruction! He LIED to the world.
    He had NO knowledge of anything to do with Iraq – no concept of the difference between Shite and Sunni.
    He thought flowers would be strewn in from of US troops (as did many readers here).
    Tens of thousands of innocent citizens are dead because he is such a disaster.
    Bash away!! Bush deserves it! Canadians who have stood by him and defended him are as bad as he is!!!
    He should be IMPEACHED except them we would get someone even more dangerous then Bush is.

  15. Well I watched ‘fair and balanced’ on CBC, Sunday before the football game. The subject, evil man is killing the planet. The first guest was none other than David Suzuki. Guess where he stood on the matter? Then to balance the report the second guest was the producer of Al Gores ridiculous movie An Inconvenient Truth. (Is he really going to win an Acadamy for that crap?) Balanced, I suppose, because she was even crazier than Suzuki. Have you ever heard this woman? In the middle of the interview… poof, her hair started on fire!! And the toughest question asked was…. Really?… Wow, like, how did it come to this?…

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