…the newspaper reporter never asked me about an election or about anything else related to the Prime Minister. She had no, repeat, no questions, so, at least not of the national scene. She asked something about a local community college. But that was it. And then I wake up this morning and here they’ve got me singing the praises, great rhetoric. Well, let me tell you, as much as I like to think that every speech is a good one, they’ve obviously never heard me when I’ve gotten going as we have. And so, they put it, all this great rhetoric. I was reading a grocery list of, of projects for the island. So anyway, this whole thing is manufactured. And I was thinking so much about you today as I read the paper and the brilliant column you wrote in last week’s Sun about wafergate in New Brunswick, where the editors made it up. It had nothing to do with what the reporter said. And so, I’m saying to myself, my God, this is like the virus or something. It’s creeping across provincial borders. Now all of a sudden the Charlottetown paper can’t just report the news. They’ve got to make it up.
A commentor asks “I wonder if the editors at the Guardian have seen this?” – Teresa Wright – “fairywriter”!
Update – SDA gets results! Her Twitter page is gone. But never fear, I grabbed a shot…
(Google cache)
You know, I always knew the liberal-biassed media torqued stories with their anti-conservative spin. But this story, right on top of the entire fabricated “waftergate” incident has completely killed any remaining, lingering vestige of credibility the MSM had.
It’s pretty obvious there’s been a long-standing nudge-nudge-wink-wink relationship between reporters and editors. The former allow their professional credibility to be whored out for partian reasons. The latter being the johns paying the whores.
Pathetic.
God bless Kate. God bless SDA. God bless the independant blogosphere.
This is not new…too many examples to mention.However they are now being exposed. The game has gone on too long. The snakes can no longer hide in the grass. The serious journalists are starting to do some real journalism. I so appreciate Duffy being free to talk about the ‘old club’….especially the part about Toronto..”the thought control center”.
Good for Duffy!! And Harris, too!
Most thoughtful savvy Canadians have been aware long before the internet’s emergence that Canadian MSM was not only gatekeeper and manipulator of Canadian news but ultimately the enabler of corruption for a decade of Liberal administration.
Duffy is now shedding more light on the corruption which exists to this day and as also highlighted recently on the Harper hidden “cracker” story by the Irving owned rag.
The real pity is that Canada does not have a FOX Cable news equivalent.
Doesn’t surprise me one iota.Like the soil,all of PEI is a Red welfare province to rival an Indian reserve.
The real pity is that Canada does not have a FOX Cable news equivalent.
Posted by: Joe Molnar at August 4, 2009 9:35 PM
Agreed.
However, as a Canadian, I have found that Fox News (US) has become my primary source of of broadcast journalism. My evening viewing consists of O’Reilly at 5:00 and Hannity at 6:00. The Canadian broadcast media can kiss my rear-end because they have lost the privelege of having me as a viewer. They barely rank above Jerry Springer as far as I’m concerned.
For Canadian news, and current events coverage, I turn to SDA and other independent online sites.
Maritimers have the energy of an old sloth and will believe all the crap that is fed them by these lying urinalists,because they are to lazy from years of Alberta’s transfers and welfare to seek out the truth. They hate the Conservatives because like the old proverb goes, “you always bite the hand that feeds you”, and the Conservatives to these folks, represent Alberta, where most of the good hard working ones from these parts, have long moved to. For years the slimey liberals stole from the west and handed it out to these ungrateful people, here is the result.
As I was driving across Edmonton today I heard on the radio that election fever had broken out again. I chuckled as I wondered who started the rumor this time. Now I know. There must be some kind of psychosis taking place in the media that they think that they can just make up the “news” and the serfs will automatically believe them.
“However, as a Canadian, I have found that Fox News (US) has become my primary source of of broadcast journalism.” posted by Colin from Mission B.C.
Same here. I haven’t watched CBC or CTV news since the Coalition of Idiots.
The reason for the constant, endless babble about ‘an election’ is that the Liberals want Power. The MSM are staffed by Liberal mouthpieces and therefore, have the same agenda.
The day after Harper was elected, both times, the MSM and Liberal focus has been only on ‘when’s the election’. The CBC, CTV, the dreary Jim Travers, Jane Tabers and all of them, talk endlessly about ‘when’s the election’. They have only one agenda: Liberal Power, and they are utterly indifferent to the accomplishments of the Harper government.
They never, ever, inform us of Harper’s accomplishments or his important international stature. They instead gleefully tell us that he was ‘one minute late for a picture’. Or, as we’ve seen, they make up libelous tales about him. We get to see and hear the intelligence and extensive knowledge of Harper only on his interviews on FOX and CNN – interviews that are never referred to in our own MSM.
I agree with those above; like them, I stopped watching CBC, CTV and all the rest long ago. I briefly surf the Star and Globe and rapidly leave their sites. I get my news from FOX and particularly enjoy Beck and Hannity and Greta Van Susterin. And, CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
It should start off with ” Once upon a time”.
For years the slimey liberals stole from the west and handed it out to these ungrateful people, here is the result.
Posted by: bartinsky at August 4, 2009 10:29 PM
Same goes for those folks in Newfoundland. Not to tar all Newfies with the same brush, as I’m sure there’s a handful of true blue conservatives in that province, but in the last two elections, how many Tories have they sent to Ottawa? One?
I do recall no Tories were sent to represent the Rock last year, as the lot of them were willingly bamboozled by Komrade Williams and the Anything But Conservative campaign of the last election. Truly pathetic.
“I haven’t watched CBC or CTV news since the Coalition of Idiots.”
Same here… and being my home is electronically metered by BBM for radio and television ratings, I make a special effort to not even momentarily click onto CBC or CTV for a split second! I would like to think I’m contributing to their bad ratings. 😀
All I can say is there is a lot of fiction out there. Really it’s just too much fiction to be honest and thank God for bloggers like Kate who can keep it real.
I wonder how it would be possible to expose MSM corruptness on their own media outlets so their sheeple will see the wool that’s been covering the senses for years?
Is there anyone who can start a Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity in Canada?
Can someone from Fox News start something here?
Please – we need that kind of informational TV.
I can’t handle the Canadian “stuff” anymore.
Willing to pay more.
Love of money is the root of all evil? Nope – the media.
Colin from Mission, Soccermom, ET and others, ditto for me. It is sad that almost 100% of the Canadian media, print or television, has a left-wing bias. Only the National Post and a number of radio talk show hosts present a centre right view. Even many of the radio talk show hosts are “red” Torys.
“Is there anyone who can start a Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity in Canada?
Can someone from Fox News start something here?”
It’s a great idea but I don’t trust CBC CTV or Global to even give it a fair chance.
Although I think a video SDA web cast is an idea whos time has come!
Many commenters have mentioned Fox. I’d watch Fox too – heard so much about it – never ever saw it. I don’t watch enough TV to justify the superdelux 100$ package. The cable companies wont put it in the basic package – i can watch 3 french language channels, the shopping network and a bunch of other uber usless ones – and i mean useless. Their way of censoring the info for me i guess. Thankyou so much Rogers for looking after my mental hygene and keeping me from being contaminated with unhealthy ideas. Whatever would i do without Big Brother?
Kate:
LET ME RELATE to you how the CBC puts a spin on a lot of the news, docs etc., news that Canadians watch and beleive. . AND PLEASE TAKE THIS COMMENT SERIOUSLY as what I say here affects us all.
On Monday, the headlines on Cbc.Ca was the deportation of Karlheinz Schreiber. I sent in a comment to this effect.
“From 1995, to 2009, CBC’s Fifth Estate has produced nine one hour-full length documentaries on the topic of Mulroney, Schreiber, the Airbus affair and related stories. At least one, perhaps two are two hour specials. If you add that up-that’s almot an entire season of programing, all in the name of blasting Brian Mulroney. And please keep in mind that Screiber was questioned several time by the CBC–his answers were made public in some of the documentaries..
The crew of the CBC, on more than one occaision, traveled to Europe for the productions. Millions of Canadian tax dollars were spent, and to this day I beleive that the CBCs obsession with this story is what led to the latest inquiry. And in the end–who but the Liberals can gain by watching Mulroney being slandered by KHS time and again.”
When I tried to print this comment on Cbc.Ca, I was refused. Tomorrow, I’m wrting a letter to the president of CBC to make my views heard, however I fell it is with no avail!
WE need to make the CBC accountable for the money and energy that was wasted on this story!
The end.
The MSM with its socialist statist legions are now running into reality. This is the response to the dike blowing. Trying to paper over the cracks in the artificail Universe the entitled elitists created in defiance of the Human condition.Including all known laws of physics. The dogma crafted so painstakingly turns out to be a steaming pile of lies.
The world they imagined is collapsing from bowing to fairy tales, while natural Law comes back like a lion with issues. To rend the tale barrers.
In the world of the MSM all must be the same in ideas as well politics. Every Women I meet always told me if you wash all the cloths together you get a grey. The brilliance goes away.
So with us they want a collective of hive minds not individuals to speak down to.
People with reality based ideas scare the MSM.
JMO
Teresa Wright
http://twitter.com/fairywriter
I wonder if the editors at the Guardian have seen this?
Like many of the frequent commenters here, I last watched a CBC program when they played Hockey Night in Canada. When that program ended I immediately changed channels.
I got Fox News through Bell satellite about 3 years back, and had to jump through hoops to get it, as the girl there tried her darndest to dissuade me from paying the extra buck or so per month. I’ve never regretted it.
Real reason I’m commenting now, though, is an odd experience I just had 3 hours ago. I live at the top of Vancouver Island, and we hermits & lumberjacks have to drive some 300 km south to do some shopping, which is what I did this morning. Coming back, 1-ton truck packed to the hilt with lumber, groceries, presents etc., and I drove out of FM range so clicked on AM radio and got a Seattle program with a talk jock named Mike Malloy(?) who was so completely, astoundly idiotic I couldn’t bring myself to turn him off, but continued listening to his idiotic “progressive” bleating.
The venom, lies, slander, hatred and foul-mouthed invective of this mental defective made me wonder how anyone could actually listen to him and AGREE on anything he said.
It’s a surprisingly polarized world out there folks, and getting more and more out of whack every hour. Yeah, I’m a conservative and like to get my news of what’s going on out there and filter it through some common sense & 68 years’ worth of experience before accepting it as the unvarnished truth. Those in the news media who are proven to be prevaricators don’t get many chances with me, which means I no longer watch any Canadian news on TV, but get it through blogs. I suspect many here share this viewpoint, and would be much surprised if they did not. But the liberal/democrat crowd in North America just does not like the actual truth about anything which does not have their ‘spin’ on it. And their actual hatred for things I hold dear, such as honesty, integrity, hard work and truthfulness means the world is in a much bigger mess than we all realize.
It’s all part of how the Big Media tries to tell the People how to interpret stuff.
They present their own opinion based on the facts as if said opinion was itself a fact, and “news”.
Fewer and fewer folks are being fooled nowadays, refusing to let those propagandists tell them what to think.
It’s a different type of propaganda.
The Wafergate scandal was an outright lie whereas in this case it’s opinion attempting to pass itself off as news.
Just two of the tactics employed by the Big Media Propaganda Machine to manipulate the perceptions of the People.
We get to see and hear the intelligence and extensive knowledge of Harper only on his interviews on FOX and CNN – interviews that are never referred to in our own MSM. -ET
–You know, they actually do refer to the American-network interviews. But they do so in a negative way, trying to suggest that in so doing, Harper’s somehow trying to “run away from the problems in Canada”.
Such hypocrisy, such a double standard. They bashed the Tories for telling Canadians that Michael Ignatieff ran away from Canada for over a third of a century, and then they turned around and bashed the Tory PM for taking a FEW MINUTES to do an interview. Incredible!
Does anyone have examples of the content from the Fairywriter?
I can’t read ‘protected’ Twitters. Would someone transcribe some in the comments section?
CBC – Communist Broadcasting Company
Good god man! She looks 12.
I wonder if she’s the daughter of the editor or the publisher…
I parted ways with CBC many years ago when while attending a municipal convention in Saskatoon when an article in the Star Phoenix by a CBC reporter totally distorted a session the previous day. I confronted the reporter the next day and was told “We report it the way we see it”. They still do. Truth be dammed.
ET “They never, ever, inform us of Harper’s accomplishments or his important international stature.”
This is SO true. I am constantly having to tell people about good stuff done by the government or an achievement by Harper — which I find out about on blogs. The media’s coverage of Stephen Harper and his government is so one-sided. It is the moral equivalent of dishonesty and a complete disservice to Canadians.
Fairywriter? A so called ‘professional’ journalist used this? Bet she really wanted to use, ‘Pixie Dust Queen.’
So obvious they want the young and dumb on staff to tout their lies. Carry on village idiots, as we watch newspaper after newspaper tank and go out of business. The liberal and terrorists best friend the Guardian is bleeding big bucks. Faster please.
O/T
Also would like to coin a new phrase; it’s been an ‘obummer summer’. Just awful weather, really.
“HARRIS: Trudeau (inaudible) did the thing…”
Is (inaudible) a euphemism for douchebag?
NJN Network and Teresa Wright’s site I suspect are getting hits from across the deranged Dominion thanks to SDA, numbers they have never seen before.
Have I missed something or is Teresa Wright the reporter who interviewed Duffy for the skewered election story?
Fairywriter eh?
Here’s a string of Theresa Wright stories from a local blogger:
http://www.njnnetwork.com/njn/?s=theresa+wright
That Fairywriter page seems to have disappeared in a hurry.
I knew I should have taken a screenshot.
SDA Gets Results!
http://twitter.com/fairywriter says “That page doesn’t exist!”
John – you can see the Google cache here – http://tinyurl.com/nsywxp
Even fairies cannot hide from Google
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:iAgJsti0Ib8J:twitter.com/fairywriter+fairywriter&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Here is Teresa’s writing at her community college newpaper. She attacks conservatives except for the story on a symphony. Bias isn’t even the word for what this twit wrote. No wonder she was hired on at a MSM paper (if a small unimportant one.)
http://www.hollandcollege.com/admissions/full_time_programs/journalism/surveyor/pdfs/2007/March9-2007.pdf?
This fairywriter, from her red velvet pedestal, states something along the lines of:
“I only want what makes me smile in life”
Isn’t she precious?
So original too.
Wright interned at the public service alliance of canada union for a summer as a student. Seems she has the usual extreme-left background the media seems to love in their staff.
Her project can be found here. Skip down the Aug. 23/07
“public services are cool” float.
She started out writing under the name “Teresa Wright-Constable” before dropping the Constable.
I read the article she wrote and it does not stray too far from what Duffy said and did. She plainly speculates that he is preparing the ground for an election.
And with what the Liberals are saying and the relative silence of the NDP and Bloc, I think it is wise to prepare the ground.
As a matter of fact, I think it is wise to prepare that ground even if there is not an impending election. They will feel more engaged with the government if it frequently and in a friendly way, reminds them of what it has done for them.
I agree with the bulk of the comments about the lack of objectivity in our MSM and the absence of reporting of the good stuff about PMSH and the CPC.
I also think the CBC should be privatized. A Board of Directors responsible to shareholders for profitability would cause them to be much more representative of the population they serve. There are a lot of assets available and they could be used to support the kinds of things writers here are asking for. Any national needs could be met by a small amount of “must carry” requirements. I don’t think Global and CTV would like this though.
Can’t remember who/ where on sda, but I think it warrants another link.
Scalliwag
‘Why Most Journalists Are Democrats: A View from the Soviet Socialist Trenches’
[Most journalists take a number of psychology, sociology, political science, and humanities courses during their early years in college. Unfortunately, these courses have long served as ideological training programs] Barbara Oakley
[“The NEA has been the single biggest obstacle to education reform in this country. We know because we worked for the NEA.”) Instead, because of their ideological biases, professors often emphasize that corporations are the bad guys, while unions and the government—at least the type of government that supports higher paychecks for social science professors and jobs for their students—are good. This type of teaching makes the Democratic Party and its increasingly socialist ideals seem naturally desirable, and criticism about how those ideals will supposedly be met less likely. (How many social scientists predicted that the billions spent on busing and the Projects would worsen the situations they were meant to solve, as ultimately happened?) It’s no wonder that journalists enter the profession as Democrats, then keep their beliefs intact through all-too-common tendencies to conform.] BO
The real pity is that Canada does not have a FOX Cable news equivalent.
Posted by: Joe Molnar at August 4, 2009 9:35 PM
Agreed.
However, as a Canadian, I have found that Fox News (US) has become my primary source of of broadcast journalism. My evening viewing consists of O’Reilly at 5:00 and Hannity at 6:00. The Canadian broadcast media can kiss my rear-end because they have lost the privelege of having me as a viewer. They barely rank above Jerry Springer as far as I’m concerned.
For Canadian news, and current events coverage, I turn to SDA and other independent online sites.
Posted by: Colin from Mission B.C. (but currently in smokey Kelowna) at August 4, 2009 9:56 PM
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My husband a I have also abandoned the Canadian news. Our #1 source for information is also Fox News. O’Reily, Glen Beck, Hannity etc.
The only news for us is local news.
CBC and CTV are not to be trusted. Our 30 year old kids and their spouses have long ago abandoned the MSM in this country.
CBC radio 2 @ 94.1FM sometimes plays classics, and sometimes it plays it during 93.6FM’s commercial and news time, that’s my only exposure to CBC.
On a sidenote, if only Zneimer’s 96.3FM was not as socialist, it would have been a perfect radio.
Alright Helen!
Same here.
I’ve actually gone as far as having SDA and other great sites pre written on post-it-note pads and when asked I just hand one out. Since I’m not a blogger, a twitter or face page user, it’s not like I’m self promoting anything, just what I find on the internet. That usually also winds up with email contacts passing these around.
I’m on my second post-it note pad in a year.
Can say that most people in our circle of friends and aquatints have admitted to turning away from MSM as the bias is so obvious and are very interested in reliable alternate sources of news information.
I find that the majority of Canadian news sources currently thinks anything that twitches in hollywood is news, anything a conservative politician does is evil and we’re humans are killing the earth causing glow-ball warming. Just can’t stomach this nonsense any more.
Forced to pay for it, but not forced to ingest it, believe it or treat it with the respect that they, astonishingly enough, expect.
Hey Alienated (at August 5, 2009 4:23 AM):
Try 790 AM, KGMI Bellingham. They have, starting at 9:00 a.m., Rush Limbaugh, then Glenn Beck, then Sean Hannity (3hr shows each). Later in the evening the signal seems to get a bit weaker but you then you get Lars Larsen and Mark Levin. All great conservative commentators and very entertaining, especially Rush and Beck. They’ve also started to stream on the internet.
Give it a try; I think you’ll like what you hear. I don’t even listen to local radio anymore; Bill Good and Christy Clark make me want to vomit.
I absolutely refuse to get my news through liberal filters anymore because I DON’T TRUST IT.
The Brothers Grimm strike again.
Hey Soccermom, it looks like we share the same opinion of the local media.
I recently gave up on CKNW and have been listening to KGMI in the morning and switch to CHQR on the internet (Adler) in the afternoon.
I used to get a kick out of Bill Good when someone would call in and accuse the media of a left wing bias. I’m pretty sure the strongest opinion the man holds is that CBC is fair and balanced.