UPDATE – CTV red-faced over off-air comments of Paula Todd
Subject: Video Removed: Copyright Infringement
Dear Member:
This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by CTV Inc. claiming that this material is infringing:
CTV Paula Todd Thinks Gun Owners Are FREAKISH: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U69ABffO-Y)
Update there’s a link to the pulled video here
and at No Libs (where the segment is 8 minutes long).
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Three short videos.
The first and longest is an interview with former Virginia Tech student and gun collector, Wayne Chiang by Paula Todd of CTV. Note the still photos shown of him. They’ll be back.
After the interview concludes, these off air comments were captured;
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Here comes the best part. Play close attention to the photos as they flash by the screen. Where have you seenthose before?
Chiang;
Alright, I must be falling off my rocker, but this is absolutely unbelievable. To be misidentified once as a homicidal shooter was hell. To be labeled again within three days? That is UNACCEPTABLE. CTV will have you to believe that Asians with guns ALL LOOK SAME. You can clearly see my picture being identified as the shooter TWICE @ 1:13 and 1:34. No apology or notice of clarification has been issued by this network.
As evidenced by my previous interview, I think we know the stance on firearms by this network. So which is it? Is this them filling the air with more “terrifying images”? Or do they think that Asians ALL LOOK SAME? Either way, I don’t think I’ll like the answer.
More confirming instances that leftist-liberals are racists.
Bill D.Cat…done two hours ago.
Wayne…get a lawyer…quick…I am no expert..but it sounds like THEY..CTV…are acussing you of copyright infringement…nail their hides to the wall.
Wayne get yourself a lawyer
Bring on Fox News North as soon as possible
Stop watching CBC and CTV
Copyright law includes exceptions for excerpts used for critical analysis of matters of public interest. Therefore, I wish to amend my indictment of CTV as elucidated above by adding the charge of destroying evidence.
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my favourite paula todd “tender interview moment” was when
she asked the late zal yanovsky of “the lovin’ spoonful” what
it felt like when his mother died.
he looked at her with an astonished expression and asked if
her mother was still alive… when she replied in the affirmative,
he said, “well… call me when she dies…”
she’s a dope.
we miss you zal.
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What can we do about this? Obviously Wayne should be getting a lawyer, but can we do a mass email to CTV?
Second sticky note for CTV damage control team leader:
Dear sir: Although Paula Todd has entered the legal realm of hate speach and libel, and you are wildly scrambling to stem the fallout with a crank copyright complaint, I just want you to know, that as a gun owner myself I do not think being called “freakish” by Ms. Toddd to be an insult or overly hateful.
I put it down to just genetic insulated elitist hubris from the typical CTV talking sphincters employed in the GTA operations.
So don’t worry it’s impossible for someone as messed up as Ms. Todd to insult responsible firearms owners….by Ms Todd’s satndards 95% of the world outside the cloistered confines of a GTA CTV studio must seem “freakish”…we understand….she has a problem…don’t leave it untreated.
PS: I hope your company group plan can help her with her xenophobia.
Wayne – forget You Tubes actions, it pales in light of the CTV number done on you.
I’m speaking as a parent here. If my kid was treated in such a cynical way, that program tried to twist you into a freak, then, in an act of blatant deceit superimposed your image with the VT shooter as if you were one and the same, I’d have immediately gotten an attorney.
You are very foolish to walk away from this. You will be Googled by future employers. That’s very common now. CTV’s little production number is a part of your resume now unless you care to correct the misconceptions and it would have to be in court as I see it.
You didn’t answer how you even connected up with CTV in the first place? How did you understand what the segment was to be about? Your guns became the focus rather than your reactions to the event, so, I’m assuming that was not what you expected.
You really, really need to not let this pass. You need to counter this with a public response or forever appear what CTV created.
Lawyers take cases on contingency fees. Just do it. Hey, I’m saying this from the heart as a mom. You seem a very sweet kid. It makes me furious to view with your sweet innocence the trap that these MSM creeps set.
Can anyone provide a brief synopsis of the off-air comments that CTV has censored?
Unfortunately, you guys have forgotten that CTV does have a property right in that broadcast. Back in the olden days, Mr. Chiang would have been called a “thief” with dispatch, and it would have spread.
That being said, though, there are Fair Use provisions in U.S. copyright law. I don’t know much copyright law, but a case could be made for Mr. Chiang under Canada’s “Fair Dealing” exception, for (ironically) reporting. Mr. Chiang does have a case that he was reporting on Ms. Todd; what he posted was certainly newsworthy to Kate the content provider. The strictures for exception to copyright infringement in Caanda’s copyright law are here. (Section 29.2.)
If Mr. Chiang can square with 29.2, there may be no need for him to launch a civil action to justify his putting the clip up.
Has anyone notified Ezra Levant? This looks like something he could help out with.
This is in no way a quote, EBD, but my best reconstruction from my general recollection is that the second video started with the CTV end-of-segment logo sequence, and the screen went black, and someone said something like [What about that guy?] and then Todd said something like [Yeah, what a freak, I had to expose him] and then she talked to some guy on the phone, off air, was his name [Breslin] – I can’t recall, and they generally agreed.
I welcome any corrections or adjustments to assist in reconstructing the events from anyone who saw the video evidence that CTV has now chosen to destroy.
Vitruvius commented, “Copyright law includes exceptions for excerpts used for critical analysis of matters of public interest. Therefore, I wish to amend my indictment of CTV as elucidated above by adding the charge of destroying evidence.”
Yeah. I couldn’t watch either the top or middle YouTube videos. Neither were available when I logged onto sda @ 5:00 p.m.
Wayne needs to find someone who’s got a copy, so he can keep it for evidence.
Paula Todd is an affected, totally irritating eedjit. And she’s a lawyer. Good Gawd.
‘Ever notice how coyly she crossed her legs and high-heeled feet when she was on TVOntario’s Studio 2 with Steve Paikin? How she batted her eyelashes and coquettishly put her head to one side when interviewing her “prey.” Now, she’s added thicker makeup to her repertoire.
Wipe it off, Paula. The mask’s come off and what we’re seeing ain’t pretty. Thick eyeliner and eye shadow and a new hairdo aren’t going to help.
There seems to be a crying need in Canada to air a conservative television network, and one can only wonder why someone doesn’t make the attempt to start one up.
The propagandist socialist networks, the CeeB, CTV and even Global just plain disgust me, and I tend to watch FoxNews almost all the time. I’m not alone, I venture to guess.
Funny thing, it’s rather obvious that the trotskyites at CTV watch Fox too… as evidenced by ‘Greta Lite’, the vacuuous Paula. I think even they know that foisting a counterpart to O’Reilly would be impossible for their side, but I’m sure they drool at that possibility.
EBD and Vitrivius:
The screen went black and then you could hear at least two other people talking (one was presumably a producer). Todd (still wearing the mic) was the clearest of course.
She basically said, “Yeah, well I didn’t want to let him keep talking because…he was just freakish.”
Then she gets on what sounds like a speaker-phone to presumably greet her next guest and prepare for the next interview. Vitrivius says his name was “Breslin”…sounds about right. He sounded old, in any case.
He asks Todd if they still have “that other guy” or “the guy before me” still on because he wants CTV to either keep him on or keep talking.
Todd replies to “Breslin” with “Yeah, wasn’t he just incredible” – with obvious sarcasm. She then says, “Why don’t you write about him.”
That’s how I remember it.
I concur with Bryceman’s corrections to my recollection, he has better memory than me. I think it may be the case that Todd was talking to Jimmy Breslin – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin – but I’m not sure.
So nobody bothered to capture the videos???
Another side comment: the fact that at least two people are trying to reconstruct what was on that video clip in this thread is further evidence of its newsworthiness (as if any more was needed.)
It is shocking that CTV and that gal Paula have slandered every gun collector in NA with a mass slur plus they set up an innocent man with the intention of ‘exposing’ him!! Who do they think they are? I am glad that I smell a lawsuit Mr. Chaing!
Paula old gal – your days as a CTV gal are likely numbered….you are a liability…the Bolsheviks do not back any of their own who stray from the ‘useful idiot’ venue. Good luck getting your old law practise restarted!
Never look for compassion or tolerance from the msm – they feed on the misery of others – these people are not and never have been interested in broadcasting news, they are agenda driven fanatics.
Thank-you Kate for posting this and thank-you all for posting your comments regarding the way CTV treats their ‘guests’.
Aaron,
re: Wendy Cukier
While I disagree with Wendy often she does teach as part of the Justice Studies program. At least she was doing so when I had her as a prof a few years back. To her credit she never once brought her gun control views into the classroom while I was there.
I can’t believe (well I’m starting to be less shocked by it) just how filled with elitism and hatred these leftards are for anything they are incapable of understanding. They really believe that we (the un-educated masses) are incapable of defending ourselves, or being responsible for our own money (we’d just waste it on popcorn and beer). The fact that all Canadians are subjected to this mind numbing barrage of left wing propaganda through our national networks is astonishing.
FOX news needs to start a Canadian FOX news up so that Canadians can indeed have access to fair and balanced news instead of laughing at the deficiency of intellectual honesty displayed by vaccuous holes such as Paula, George Strombo, Avi Lewis, Fife, Newman, and so on and so on.
Wayne, you seem like a great guy and kudos to you for keeping your chin up and not letting intellectual inferiors dictate your beliefs. Good luck in all your future endeavours whatever they may be.
Was Paula Todd not the host of a CBC show called Face Off, or a co host?? There was this one show about the SCOC decision on the “No means No” case.
I remember a panelist stating that its now much easier for innocent men to be put in jail for sexual assault. I believe it was Paula Todd whose answer came out as “so what.”
We have a guy on 1410 on the AM dial in Vancouver I think the call letters are CFUN.
He regularly trashes Bill O’Reilly stating that he lies.
My question to that morning idiot jock is … Since Bill O is an habitual liar, tell me at least two lies he has told and substantiate those claim. In other worlds prove he lied. I will then be happy to do the research to find out if indeed they were lies.
I might ad that I regularly watch Fox and have yet to hear Bill lie. He backs up all claims with facts.
I will submit this request to the idiot jock as soon as I can get a call through to him. I can’t remember his name at the moment, but I will get it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to add…LAWYER UP!! Let the good times roll. I’m guessing CTV will be willing to pony up a large sum of dough to keep this out of the courts, but I’d personnaly want this all to come out on the record.
Thanks a lot, bryceman, I appreciate it.
BATB…
i’m still able to view videos 1 and 3 on this site.
if ctv is hiding behind copy write laws on clip 2 why have’nt they had the others pulled ?
wayne take em to the cleaners pronto.
“Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. On November 2, 2004 he retired as a regular columnist from Newsday but stated his intention to continue writing. In his final Newsday column, Breslin incorrectly predicted a Kerry victory in the 2004 Presidential election.”
This is the guy Todd was talking to after Wayne. One of the most famous columnists in America.
For the record, it is not at all uncommon for people in the South to own a lot of guns. (I have about a dozen, myself.) If we were going to critical of everyone in the South who owned a lot of firearms, we would have to criticize half our population.
Incidentally, I direct this to Paula Todd:
There is a rumor that your urine will etch glass.
How do you feel about that?
Paula Todd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paula Todd (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, lawyer and author, best known as host of THE VERDICT with PAULA TODD, the nightly, live, prime-time legal and justice affairs program on CTV Newsnet. Prior to joining CTV NEWS in 2007, Todd was the host and co-producer of TV Ontario’s interview program Person 2 Person with Paula Todd. She previously co-hosted the nightly, Gemini-award-winning newsmagazine Studio 2 with Steve Paikin for 10 years before that show’s cancellation in June 2006. Todd has written extensively for such publications as The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Elm Street Magazine, Canadian Living, and The Law Times.
Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer and Queen’s Park political correspondent. The last four years at the Toronto Star, Todd served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.
Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and was nominated for a ‘National Magazine Award’ in 2003. She is the 2004 recipient of the Paramedic Association’s Media Award for public education, and serves on the Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities.
She is the author of the best-selling book A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us.
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Paula was a regular host on CBC Newsworld’s ‘Face Off’, appeared as a frequent Global TV and CBC panelist, and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Paula earned her B.A. in English literature from York University (where she served as co-editor of Excalibur), her LL.B. from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School.
She is married to Doug Grant, the Director of Current Affairs and Weekly Programming for CBC TV and Newsworld.
Let’s be careful here, Morris, I’m not sure it was Jimmy Breslin, that’s what sticks in my memory. I have assembled a critique of Mr. Breslin, but I don’t want to post it unless someone other than me confirms from their memory that it was indeed him.
It was Jimmy Breslin. I heard Paula Todd say his name.
Don’t the networks pay their staff good money to make sure that they match news items with totally accurate photos?
It’s clear that the guy carrying all the guns and looking through the viewfinder is not the killer–and I’m not getting paid for my ability to figure this out.
Wayne Chiang, you’ve been shamefully and despicably wronged by CTV, who abusively intersperced photos of you with photos of the VT killer, who posed you in front of the White House, for crying out loud (members of the Canadian MSM are pretty well universally anti-American), and then to add insult to injury, put you through a staged and biased interview with Paula Todd. As if it couldn’t get any worse, Paula Fraud then makes damaging comments about you when she thinks she’s off-air.
As a Canadian, I’m ashamed of, though not at all surprised by, this appalling injustice to you and your family. I hope that you are successful in any lawsuit you bring against CTV. They need the book thrown at them, HARD.
Good luck!
I suspect we are more upset in Wayne Chaing’s behalf than he is. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt as a young kid. What he isn’t getting is that he will forever be out there in the context that CTV portrayed him in the age of the Internet.
This will surface when an employer Googles his name. There will be no links to Wayne’s indignation and legal redress if he doesn’t create it. His image is forever linked to the VT killer as it stands now. As time passes, context gets forgotten.
So, Wayne, if you are reading this think about that. Your good name has been trounced. Your image has been coupled with a mass murderer. It’s out there forever with only the context that the craven CVT put in. I would salvage what I can and at this point only legal action will do.
This story is so appalling and frightening as an example of the power that the MSM wields. What other entity can try and convict a person without merit like they do?
Wayne may not do anything. It’s a cautionary tale for all of us.
Assuming that Mike and I are not mistaken, then the man Todd was sniggering with while denigrating Mr. Chiang is none other than the man who (according to Wikipedia) in 1990, after receiving an e-mail characterizing one of his Newsday columns as sexist, responded in the Newsday newsroom with an ad hominem attack by promptly denouncing the sender of the e-mail, Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh, a female Korean-American reporter who was a colleague of Breslin’s at Newsday, as a “yellow, slant-eyed cur.”
He also called her what the The New York Times would only describe as “an obscene anatomical reference.” The full quote, reported by Helen Zia in Asian American Dreams, 2000, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is “The fucking bitch doesn’t know her place. She’s a little dog, a little cur running along the street. She’s a yellow cur. Let’s make it racial. She’s a slant-eyed cunt.”
I apologize for that language, were I not a direct quote relevant to the topic I would not repeat it. Nevertheless, it remains the case that one is in part judged by the character of those one associates with; here we have evidence of how Todd and CTV should be judged.
FOX NEWS-it cost me $300.00 to get it-I needed to buy a special box through our cable company and it was well worth it. Don’t watch CNN any longer, CTV or CBC.
I want factual reporting, both sides and decide for myself where the truth lies. Two dangers in any society-biased news and biased teachers/professors.
MT
FOX NEWS-it cost me $300.00 to get it-I needed to buy a special box through our cable company and it was well worth it. Don’t watch CNN any longer, CTV or CBC.
I want factual reporting, both sides and decide for myself where the truth lies. Two dangers in any society-biased news and biased teachers/professors.
MT
Wayne, I too would like to add my support. I was watching that night and was impressed with you and your presentation.
What I’m kicking myself about now is that after watching a few of PT’s earlier programs I e-mailed her saying I enjoyed them.
She’s learned a lesson (well, maybe she’s learned it)…a lesson most broadcasters “get” quite early in their careers; namely, no personal comments should be made while around a mike, turned on or off.
Now that I know this particular thing about her, I’m less likely to watch. There really is less and less to watch on MSM.
Moose, if that’s the only lesson Todd learned it sure isn’t adequate in what is expected of journalistic ethics. That this bimbo left her mike on is only a small footnote in this whole sordid saga.
Todd’s agenda was so transparent. It was a stunning bait-and-switch piece of dishonest journalism. The kid collects guns, no crime in that. I suspect they baited him, switching the theme when they realized his images with his guns was more valuable to their agenda than his innocent and appropriate responses to the VT murders.
She looked totally smarmy. Her open mike was an accidental view into her dishonesty.
She hasn’t learned a damn thing until she sits in court for slander or whatever her victims nail her with.
Who’s more disgusting, in-your-face terrorists or the smarmy weasels that inhabit the MSM?
Nothing will happen to her. She will have gone up in the esteem of the left. She may even get a promotion for her ‘bravery’.
He should sure as HELL sue. To someone who doesn’t think all Asians look the same, who can actually identify Chiang as an individual, this is a huge dent against his character.
It’s hard to imagine a bigger one.
He has been damaged and who knows how much. He should receive an apology and compensation.
By not clearly retracting and apologizing, CTV is compounding the damage when they should instead be mitigating.
This is more salt on the wounds of the MSM…blogs will continue to irritate them.Good!
I’m still wondering about why the White House was chosen for the background in Wayne’s interview.Who made that decision?What was the point?
I noticed in the CTV interview of Wayne Chiang (the first Youtube clip) that they labeled the segment “DANGEROUS LOOKALIKE”. Libelous indeed.
I take your point, Christoph, yet I think the situation has progressed beyond the point of mitigation. If a system, such as CTV, becomes so mis-operated that it produces regular failures time and time again, then it is not a matter of mitigation, it is a matter of modifying ones processes to no longer rely on such a system. Mitigation is no longer relevant — the structure is fundamentally flawed.
The structure to which I am referring is the trough-feeding main-stream media. We can now see that their fradulently hidden partisanship is a threat to the continuation and advancement of our society. They need to be eliminated from our society’s consideration, not mitigated.
And when I say eliminated, I’m not proposing any sort of violence — what we need to do, one by one, is calmly and intelligently explain to those we encounter, over and over again, as ET is so good at, that there is a problem here, and for their own good they should pay attention to it. One by one. A journey of a thousand parsecs is nothing more than a series of small steps, pace Zeno.
My father is a “Freakish” gun collector who owns at least as many guns as you do Wayne. I heartily encourage you to sue. And do everything in your power to ensure that the legal proceedings are as widely publicized as possible. Nothing hurts these people like public humiliation.
Paula Todd unmasked.
She may not last as long at CTV as she did at TVO particularly if the blogging community begins contacting and boycotting her program sponsors.
However Mike Duffy just about drools over her for whatever that’s worth, in on air survival at CTV, but the Canadian blogging community has taken her measure this week.
On another matter, I suspect she has a philosophical and professional hatred for Barbara Amiel and Conrad Black as well.
Incidentally Barbara Amiel could eat her up and spit her out in a half hour face off.
Geez would I like to see that!
“Wayne may not do anything. It’s a cautionary tale for all of us.”
Thank you all for the tremendous support. Action is definitely being taken right now. Legal stuff is always slow though. When I find the time, I will upload another version of video #2 that falls under fair use of copyright materials.
This also might be a shock to some people, but a case is currently being considered against Fox News. On the evening of the shooting, Geraldo Rivera made some pretty inflammatory statements about me. Right now, we are focusing on getting that debacle out of the way.
I will post updates whenever they are available, to my journal.
http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com
A big thank you to Kate! I love her domain name!
There are 2 really good web sites blending both video and text based commentary and in-depth analysis. One is Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air, the other is UK’s 18 Doughty Street.
hotair.com
18doughtystreet.com
I mention this because all these posts about CTV and CBC remind me of the fact that about one year ago, apart from the occasional movie, I stopped altogether watching Canadian TV. Rather unexpectedly, this has brought about the complete evanescence of mold from my basement, among other sane things. I wonder though, what keeps the Canadian blogosphere from setting up a web video station of news and analysis in the vein of the 2 aforementioned successful ventures from USA and UK?
I’m not kidding myself, I know it’s a very difficult proposition. However, I am confident there is a NEED for such a thing, and there would be a great deal of SUPPORT from would-be viewers.
I’m asking every reader: do you think there is a strong need and an even stronger desire to support such an initiative?
Kate, what do you think? Is it feasible for some of the many incisive and honest minds catering to the blogosphere to get together as a team for the purpose of setting up a Canadian version of Hot Air or 18 Doughty Street?
Not long ago Darcey at DMB focused on a youtube video by some Edmonton jihadists. The video was pulled and no one got a copy. More recently, the topic of this thread got pulled.
In this world of 20Gig SATA drives, DVD burners and DSL connections, there’s no reason why this stuff can’t be captured and saved.
With Kate’s permission I’d like to show you folks how to do that;
If you’re specifically looking to capture youtube clips, this is a good tutorial: http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/how-to-download-youtube-clips/
If you want to do more than that (video from CBC, CTV, Global etc,) you’ll need some other goodies.
First you’ll need a program that identifies the URL/location of the clip you’re looking to capture. For that I use a program called URL Snooper: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper/index.html It’s nagware but it does a great job.
Once you know the name of the video and where it’s stored you need to be able to download it. For that I use a program called hidownload: http://www.streamingstar.com/hidownload-flv-downloader.htm It’s fully functional trialware that’ll give you 30 days between installations.
Using that combo I can grab any active streaming media from anywhere…
Apologies to Kate as I wasn’t paying attention to this thread. Otherwise I would have grabbed the video myself.
Now that the rest of you know how to do it, there’s no reason for us to let clips like this slip by away again…
Good to hear Wayne. If you need some donations to start a lawsuit, feel free to ask. Many of us here would love to support you on this one.
We should all file a Human Rights complaint to the commission against Ms. Paula Todd and CTV for their racist commentary.
AFAIK you don’t actually have to be the one who is the target, you just have to be a bystander who feels offended.
Turn the joke on the jokers.
Wayne, go for it. Bookmark this thread with the videos as a reference point, find a good litigator and exercise your rights in getting your image corrected.
My heart goes out to you. Geez, this could be any mother’s son.
Please let us know about your progress. I’m sure Kate will dedicate a thread as things develop. CTV needs to learn the lesson that people aren’t objects for them to callously destroy at will. The creeps.