52 Replies to “The World Still Has Too Many Reporters”

  3. I can’t wait for the first reporter to track that bear down and try to get an interview.

  6. I think that it is remarkable that the bear didn’t somehow break the jar for that long. How hard can it be?

  7. Gus, I read earlier that it was a plastic jar which might explain the difficulty the bear had in breaking it. I hope the bear is alright — it looked pretty lean in the photo.

  8. I suspect there are hundreds of Canadian kids each year that get their heads stuck in something … and thousands that get their tongues stuck on something.
    In short Kate, there are an untold thousands of Canadians that can directly relate to this excellent article(s).
    Reminds me of that old saying “smart as a bear”.

  9. Not enough reporters to do basic reporting. From a Reuters story:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66K6JN20100721
    ” Images such as Obama with a bone through his nose and the White House with a lawn full of watermelons are often displayed at Tea Party rallies.”
    Kind of like saying Canadians often murder their neighbours because someone did it once.

  10. Just how did this bear breath, eat and drink during the two weeks that his head was stuck in a jar? Were each and every reporter on this story too stupid to think of that and ask? They just repeat what their told. More proof that they’re lefties.

  13. “I suspect there are hundreds of Canadian kids each year that get their heads stuck in something … ”
    Probably those at the King’s, Carleton, Western, and Ryerson schools of journalism.

  14. Reminds me of the time President Ogabe got a bucket stuck on his head. Though, apparently, it’s only newsworthy when it happens to a bear.

  15. You had to hear the CBC reporter interviewing the MNR guy who took pains to assure ‘everyone’ how they would handle the poor fella.
    Every half hour…(hey..I was driving a lot that day)
    Looks about the same size of the one that was getting into our corn a few years back.His fur makes an interesting conversation piece.

  16. I dunno, I suppose there are more people who would rather hear about a (Winnie the Pooh-esque) story about a bear and a jar, than blanket coverage of Jaffer-gate, Census-gate, x-gate, y-gate and z-gate.
    I know which one I’d rather talk about on the patio sipping a barley-pop.

  17. Now if the green cult collective only showed as much “humanity” for humans – late/full term abortion and societal neglect for seniors would not be realities.

  18. MSM is well beyond pathetic now…This type of story should of been a cute, few seconds anecdote closer at the end of the LOCAL tv station…NOT NATIONAL NEWS!
    Yeah, dogs, cats, turtles, you name it, it’s all National news worthy…Meanwhile, 100’s of journolists have been caught coniving how they can protect the messiah in the WH; but not a peep on that.
    Some other examples apply. Murders should remain localized news, unless it was multiple victims and the accused is on the run, threatening other communities.
    Same thing with climate and weather. They keep showing floods in remote areas of the globe but constantly omit to tell stories that might impact our lives in the near future LOCALLY. Like McGuinty’s surprise eco tax…Not one news organisation got a scoop on that?
    Leave the weather to the weather station…We know what you are subliminally doing: Pushing the climate change agenda.
    Kate, maybe the asteroid should be changed to a nuke, ’cause personaly, I don’t know if I can wait anymore.
    SUN TV…SUN TV…SUN TV…SUN TV…SUN TV…

  19. On the same page of the National Post reporting that “Canoeist finds pickle jar, but adolescent bear is missing,” there was a story on a Canadian scientist who is helping save Australian wombats and another one explaining how 150 holiday makers had been stung by a jellyfish off a beach in New Hampshire.
    I was struck by the sheer banality and wondered why one bear at risk was newsworthy when, on average, 274 children in the womb are aborted in Canada every day.
    ‘A world truly gone mad, where saving the life of one bear is considered more important than saving the lives of a few hundred children, a rather stark snap shot of where we’re at.
    I guess we ARE going to Hell in a hand basket …

  20. “Ontario Bear may have broken free of pickle jar.”
    Sorry, but I smell a cover-up. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that a *bear*, of all things, could generate the amount of force required to smash – against a tree, a rock, or a curb – a pickle jar that got unexpectedly jammed over it’s panicked head.
    This one just doesn’t pass the smell test. We need more reporters to follow up on this sort of story.

  22. Can somebody compare this to the number of stories on Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez’s drunk driving conviction?

  23. “Mason, the fine makers of the wide mouth jar, introduces it’s new bear head mouth. We send a team of specialists measure heads of the largest polar bears…Polar bears have been seen in dumps in the Northern Territories. Mason feels it is obligated to protect the wild…The new bear head jars will be found at Costco and Sam clubs with the rest of the giant size products…Bring your truck, trailer or flatbed.
    Note: Steelco, the fine maker of manhole covers are curently working on providing us with the jar lids.”

  24. Now a real story would be a CBC reporter with her head stuck in a pickle jar for two weeks.
    Mind you, a CBC reporter is used to having her stuck up somewhere for weeks at a time so a pickle jar may not be that big a deal.

  28. I once saw a cat with it’s head stuck in a tin-can(lid still attached shoved in). The cat was….animated….
    It is logical that a bear could get a pickle jar stuck on it’s head. The odds are the bear could see through the jar but breathing would be somewhat compromised adding to the panick/adrenalin rush.
    It is safe to assume that such a large pickle jar…glass or plastic would be of robust construction….and that particular pickle jar received signifigant abuse.
    This could inspire development of a better bear trap but snares are verboten.

  29. I suspect there are hundreds of Canadian kids each year that get their heads stuck in something … and thousands that get their tongues stuck on something..
    Posted by: ∞² at July 23, 2010 2:51 AM
    Yup, you can pick out the Liberals and InDeepers at an early age, alright….

  30. I, for one, am glad the bear made it. Perhaps the story does not merit headlines, but it makes a change from the relentless barrage of Barack (is he or isn’t he a loser). A bear starving to death doesn’t strike me as amusing. But I too wonder about the origins of the story. Could an animal survive a couple weeks without water?
    I also wonder at people following it around, aware that the bear was in distress and not coming up with a humane way to either free it, or put it out of its misery. If the bear had truly been stuck for 2 weeks, there was no reason to expect it could EVER free itself. So letting it wander around until it starved to death seems rather cruel.

  31. The cbc is far too busy trying to get the public outraged about Conrad Black and possibility he could be coming home to Canada.Hmm,cbc doesn’t want Conrad home,but they have been the most ‘outraged’ over PMSH denying Khadr’s return! I know which one I would rather have come home.

  34. I call bullshit on “two weeks”.
    A bear could pull it off right away.
    Probably someone snapped a quick pic fro their back porch as their garbage was raided.
    This is a “fake but true” story made up by soap sellers.

  35. Maybe it’s too early to be handing out today’s prize, but Fred at 9:42 am has a pretty good lead right now.

  37. Well, my serious comment is that this is part of the “bread and circuses” that hoi polloi want.
    It’s just a variant of Balloon Boy.

  38. Everytime I read the libtards’ comments on CBC I want to stick my head in a jar or the oven. If those reponders are indicative of the average Canadian opinion this nation is doomed to mirror England in a decade.

  39. Bread and circuses, Erik?
    Our media is fixated on pickles and censuses.
    Here is an idea for the survey challenged journoclass who find themselves in need of a pickle fix.
    (pregnant pause…)
    If Canadians are truly distressed about not being forced to fill out an intimate description of their lifestyle, then the voluntary submission is now a wonderful opportunity for many more of us to share that data with nameless mandarins.
    Right. Have another Strubb.
    Many years ago, I was the recipient of the farm form. I actually tossed it out. Several phone calls resulted in a knock on the door and a nice lady who demanded that I fill out the form as she stood there. After much grumbling I listed my cash crops as burdock and marijuana.
    Never heard from anyone again.

  41. Hey! wait a minute wasen’t there a story the other day about Iggy-tour-du-jour about him tryin’ to buy a pickle-on a-stick? Is there a connection? Did the anointed one discard the jar? did he nibble the pickle, or deep throat it? Video at 5 Lloyd will be able to say “thats the kind of pickle it was” Canadian news is so exciting. Iggy wants to tax the bear for havin’ his own “portable sunroom”

  43. The CBC would rather cover bears with their heads stuck in pickle jars instead of Liberals with their hands caught in the cookie jars, because they like their warm fuzzies……

  44. I’ve got some questions for reporters to be asking Re: The Census.
    The information from the census that StatsCan is selling/charging for…where is that money actually going? Into General Revenue or is it being paid back to StatCan civil servants as a bonus.
    And if it is being paid out as bonuses how much of it is then being donated to the Lieberals and Dippers by those civil servants?
    Would not another source of political payola drying up, for the face-in-the-trough left, not explain the weeping, wailing and knashing of teeth we see on TV over ending the long form census?
    Always follow the money…words to live by.

  45. The jar has a 5 cent refund. Who is gonna claim it?
    Posted by: Sylvanguy
    lol lol lol ( If you only knew How true)
    The MSM is so irrelevant it almost painful to watch the topple of their ivory Tower. Not painful enough not to dance with glee over a lying monopoly for far to long though. Where getting the Sun station by Jan. 1st.
    Here’s hopin we get a Fox instead of a Rabbit.
    JMO

  47. I’ve always maintained the best way to remove a jar from a suffering bear’s head is with a well placed .308 180gr spitzer. Too bad bear meat sucks at this time of year so I’ll have to leave the bear suffer under greenhorn concern.

  48. “Now a real story would be a CBC reporter with her head stuck in a pickle jar for two weeks.”
    I’d pay money to see that!

  49. Posted by: Jamie MacMaster at July 23, 2010 10:34 AM
    I’m sorry, as I try to maintain a certain amount of decorum, but this had me LOLing.

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