103 Replies to “You’re The Media. Why Haven’t You Asked Them?”

  2. CBCpravda isnt the media , its the propaganda arm of the Liberal party and they are about to lose big time .
    7% of Canadians watch the CBC. if you had to pay for it directly on your cable bill for watching it would cost you 300 bucks, and no one would watch it at all.

  4. “Why are Harper supporters heckling the media? […]
    Other parties hold the presser in a separate room after the event.”
    You have to ask? Other parties get a love in, Harper gets attacks. Duh!

  5. from article:
    -More to the point, Mr. Harper’s supporters don’t like anyone who suggests the Conservative leader is fallible, such as the travelling news media.-
    Fallible?
    Why don’t you get one of the Travelling Newsies to ask them if they’re fallible?
    Any consertvative candidate can say yes, next question from someone else and “OhNOES!” Everyone(you and the Newsies) who didn’t know before now know they’ve got the stones to admit they’re like regular people.
    yippee.
    how much is the price of oil on the world market again?

  7. Yikes – it must be brutal when anyone interrupts that very special circle jerk.

  8. One of my Whacky Jack lovin’ FB friends actually wondered out loud why the media were giving the CPC such an easy time, being in their pocket. That orange koolaid sure is potent stuff!

  9. Meanwhile in an alternate universe Jack Layton’s being grilled about his massage parlor scandal. Ha ha ha ha sorry I forgot no such universe exists.

  10. “The wall of selective silence and control shrouds the entire government and undermines the free flow of information citizens could normally expect.”
    Not at all.
    Who the hell elected the press as the official inquisitors of the government?
    Questions?
    If the Canadian people ever need any questions answered of the Canadian government, let the elected sitting members of parliament ask them of the ministers and take the responsibility for asking pointed questions.

  11. The real question is, after years of them heckling us, why are they surprised?

  12. I saw the way Ivison treated you in a series of tweets, Kate. What a privileged, despicable elitist.
    This comment directly on his column sums it all up for me:
    Servant1011
    11:32 AM on April 30, 2011
    Perhaps you are looking at the frustration that many Canadians share about the conduct of the media in Canada. Their one sided reporting on so many issues, the bias of the Ottawa Press Gallery against Harper…Canadians are just sick of it.
    I’m all for the media holding any and all governments to account….but their conduct, especially during this election, has been abysmal.
    And that is one of the reasons why Canadians are frustrated with the Canadian media. Suck it up princesses.

  13. The journalist heckled in the video has shown immense contempt for our country’s Prime Minister, just as Craig Oliver, Jane Taber, Sandy Rinaldo, Robert Fife and Roger Smith have done. The lack of professionalism they display is just plain ignorant.

  14. John Ivison is telling us the bar for the journalistic code of ethics is Terry Milewski. Sad spectacle of journalists in that National press Gallery.

  16. I’m surprised that a National Post journalist would write this type of column.
    “Quite why the press conference needed to be held in front of a hostile crowd is not clear, unless it was an attempt to INTIMIDATE journalists.”
    “Lends the appearance of a ‘LYNCH mob'”?
    ….”confirm many people’s impressions of the Conservative Party as the home of anger, intolerance and blind partisanship.”
    How IRONIC.

  17. Robert W., I think a lot of us agree with the comment that you posted.

  18. Ivison hardly ever writes anything worth reading, and I gave up reading his columns a long time ago. Why the Post keeps him is beyond me. He’s very old-school, and still views newspapers columnists are Gods lecturing to an audience of fools.
    Contrast him to Steyn for example.

  19. Today on a popular Saskatoon radio station, Liberal candidate for Saskatoon-Humboldt, Darren Hill was snivelling about his signs being stolen. Anyone living in Saskatoon knows that Mr. Hill is quite familiar with signs being taken down since he’s been known to personally partake in that activity.
    Having the whining little turd on the news was bad enough but, when he was finished, the commentator mentioned that “apparently” some NDP signs had also gone missing. She may as well have just said “the Conservatives are stealing lawn signs”.
    Just another example of the media doing everything within their power to throw crap at the Conservatives.

  20. The answer, Mr. Ivison, is so clear. Terry has trash-talked our Rt. Hon. P.M. for so long that he does not even understand that it is not about him! He has been really rude on this trip and should have had a time out week two, as the hatred is palpable. There are some good questions I would like to ask, as a conservative, but the media just wants hype. I am surprised that Ivison would support his colleague’s bad behaviour.

  22. Robert W and Ken Kulak @1:54/55, I certainly do agree with both of you; good comment Robert W.
    I can only stand those self serving, obnoxious, sneering, old maids for very limited periods of time; I have to switch channels (to Fox News – I don’t get Sun News); if I did not I would throw something through the TV (and being a Scot I am way too cheap to ruin a big fancy TV!). PMSH is heads and shoulders above those petty wee minded people yet he is forced to attempt to deal with them and their dim wit questions as if they were older than their shoe sizes. I think that the PM does remarkably well but I do understand why he limits them to 5 questions. Most men that I know would have reached the end of their fuses after two ‘questions’!
    Our Prime Minister is a rational man; the press gang, not so much. Rational people don’t mix fine Scotch Whiskey with cool aid.

  23. Ivison has it all backwards, it was “Trench-coat Terry Mildewski that was heckling the PM, and someone in the crowd said something about defunding the CBC, which brought out a round of applause and cheering from the crowd. If Ron Burgundy, oops, I mean Trench coat Terry, didn’t behave like such a douche-bag, then he wouldn’t have to resort to making the story about himself. As Ibbitson said, the PPG “detest” the PM, and it shows. While Ivison and Trench-coat Terry are busy being big girls blouses, Whorehouse Jack continues his media free ride, while performing his elect Mr. Peanut routine. The media “coverage” of this election has been a disgrace.

  24. Perhaps we could arrange an interview with TM and the gov of Ohio. That would be fun to watch.

  25. All media opposed to the CPC, money pouring in from the US on a variety of fronts to oppose the CPC and the three parties united in a sham created from Parliamentary Privilege and spring boarded into Contempt of Parliament.
    We’re being forced into accepting a Socialist/Communist regime be virtue of turkeys like Milewski try their best to disrupt CPC political rallies and then the CBC support him and attacks the people in attendance. Getting to be pretty irritating, no doubt about that. Sure hope the PM brings in a majority.

  26. I have recognized an increasing negative bias in the National Post to the conservative viewpoint and the Conservative Party.
    Having Scott Reid (the LPC rendition)and John Monroe, with only a luke warm National Post commentator as representing the National Post political punditry, would be similar to having Robert Fife as the correspondent travelling with PMSH to present the CTV side of things. Wait a minute!
    Have already cancelled the electronic edition of the National Post. The paper version after the election. Cheers;

  27. If you think the English media is hostile, you should hear the French media. At a rally in Montreal on Friday there were five questions posed. Four of the questions were rambling rants which finally got to the question and the fifth straightforward question came from a journalist of The Suburban, a mainly Jewish paper. The three Francophone journalists were openly hostile.
    When the English hostile journalist prefaced his question with “when you win a minority government again” he was friendly booed by the crowd.

  29. My question about our media’s “coverage” of the various campaigns has to do with the whitewashing of the Layton “scandal”.
    Is the MSM’s (and many left supporters) so consumed with their Hate for Harper that they choose to ignore the underlying question that many people have.
    That is, given the seedy underbelly of these “clinics” and given that this raid was obviously common knowledge for years; are none of these media personalities the least little bit concerned about how this information could have been used against the “patrons”.
    I am just an ordinary Canadian who learned about this two days ago and I am questioning that – how come NO ONE in our media thought to question it.

  30. Well folks follow the money. All art and media in Canada is taxpayer subsidized in one form or another. The CRTC forces you to pay for programs that no one would support if left to their own choices. The CRTC should be shut down as well as even postal subsidies for the print media as well. Every type of media in Canada is propped up involuntarily by the taxpayer. Canadian content rules on all channels on tv and radio. This is why the media has contempt for you they don’t need to win your approval as the state set up by the Liberals ensures that their hand goes in your wallet and your money is taken to prop up the machine. Get involved, demand an end to the CRTC, Canadian content rules and filthy organs like the CBC etc. Let them all get jobs at their levels of competance, flipping burgers at the Golden Arches if they will have the useless, pompous asses. Perhaps they could start at the bottom cleaning out urinals and sh*tters for Ronald MacDonald.

  31. For John Ivison’s question. Why are the citizens heckling the media. Because you are sh*t John. We see through you and the A*swipe you produce each day. Low quality a*swipe.

  32. “Why are Harper supporters heckling the media?” Better to ask why are over 40% of Canadians heckling the media. Oh grow up Ivison! Grow a pair and accept the fact that if you act like an arse you will be called on it.

  33. John Ivison: “Party spindoctors suggest Mr. Harper likes the visuals of being surrounded by supporters but it lends the appearance of a lynch mob when the inevitable happens.”
    Let me change that paragraph for you, Mr. Ivison.
    CBC apparatchiks suggest Mr. Milewski likes the visuals of haranguing and humiliating the Prime Minister but it does, they admit, lend the appearance of a one-man lynch mob when the inevitable happens after the PM has answered Mr. Milewski’s question ad nauseum but Mr. Milewski just keeps hammering away. One suspects the visuals of this morning’s episode will be replayed on newscasts across the country and confirm many people’s impressions of the CBC and the legacy media as the anti-CPC propaganda arm of the liberal left where anger, intolerance and blind partisanship are their stock in trade.”
    There’s your answer, Mr. Ivison, to why the poor media (boo hoo) is being heckled. Pay-back time, Mr. Ivison, and it’s free.

  34. And, one or two other small points vis a vis your comment, Mr. Ivison: “Quite why the press conference needed to be held in front of a hostile crowd is not clear, unless it was an attempt to intimidate journalists. Other parties hold the presser in a separate room after the event.”
    Would the hostility of the crowd have anything to do with the media and their abysmal coverage of this election? Hmmm …
    As for other parties holding pressers in a separate, private room after the event: I can just see the headlines now if PM Harper did this, Control Freak Harper closely controlling the message, can’t you?
    When Prime Minister Harper holds public press conferences to get his message out, he’s accused of doing so to allow his supporters to give journalists a rough time. If he were to discontinue holding public pressers, and instead held them “in a separate room,” he’d be accused of being a control freak who refuses to tell Canadians what his agenda is.
    Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. That’s your and your media cronies’ doing, Mr. Ivison, so grow up and suck it up. It’s unbecoming to see a grown man cry.

  35. One more thing: On the first page of Google images of John Ivison, what do I see but a chummy photo of him with his arm around his pal Iggy. They look like good buds.
    A picture is worth a thousand words, that’s for sure.

  37. Hey John Ivison, the reason media gets booed at CPC rallies is because Canadian MSM is corrupt and has been corrupt (especially prior to and during the Chretien /Martin era), as well as totally left leaning.
    Welcome Sun TV.

  38. “The wall of selective silence and control shrouds the entire government and undermines the free flow of information citizens could normally expect.” Substitute “main stream media” in place of “entire government” in the professor’s quote. Pot, meet kettle. Poor little Terry, Johnnie, et al, thrashing around, lashing out at those who dare to disagree with them….. Ain’t like the good old days, eh boys? SDA, Sun TV, Ottawa’s CFRA morning radio, and others are doing their part to create some balance. Thanks to you all. Good to know that as we are reading the right side of the story, across the nation lefty heads are exploding as they do the same….

  39. Question:
    How many signatures are needed to present to Parliament for the abolishment of money given to CBC [Constantly Bashing Conservatives]. When CBC was started, communication was just not there in Canada. Today, with technology, there are very few places in Canada that need CBC. I would suggest that we get a petition started, as a private members bill, in response to petition, be presented to stop funding to this archaic radio/tv news media. This would be a grass roots petition, and not in any political party policies. Same thing about HRC [we have real courts to do the same thing]; $2.00 per vote [not because it will destroy Bloc and LIEberals, but because it is not needed]; cut back the gold plated pension and stop any funding that is spent on Global Warming/Climate Change policies that may arise – at least until it is proven that carbon is a dangerous gas.
    Just thinking.

  40. Gee – it appears that Jack Layton is also Not taking questions today.
    I am sure we will see multiple tweets calling him out on it and asking what happened to democrasy…
    right???

  42. Same as Jema 54.
    I am so looking forward to Sun TV.
    Haven’t got it here in Sk yet but desperately need it.
    Watch Fox all the time.
    US MSM the same as ours.
    Reason they got Obama who is destroying their country big time.

  43. I think working in todays media can be very difficult for people of integrity. I have noticed in recent years the uncomfortable delivery of several people that I had admired over the years for their balanced deliver of news and opinion.
    Lloyd Robertson now seems to deliver a left tinted view of news on CTV (with the help of Bob Fife) and I happened to see an obviously uncomfortable Greg Weston performing for Peter Mansbridge on CBC news the other week. It appears Mr. Ivison and other National Post writers may have less freedom to express their personal views as the NP morphs into just another left wing rag.

  44. The press don’t hate Harper because he’s Harper. They hate him because he espouses Conservative values. When they show their disdain for Harper, aren’t they actually reflecting their hatred of conservative Canadians and our support for Liberty? I suggest they are.
    Johnny boy, you and your fellow progressive hacks have mocked us for decades but now that you’ve lost your monopoly on the message, fewer and fewer people are buying your bias.
    Payback will be a bitch.
    Bwaaa. Ha.Ha

  45. I will give Ivison some credit and call it rhetorical question…..Right Mr. Ivison.

  46. Will PM Harper after the majority election make plans to end the 1 BILLION Dollar subsidy of the CBC and use the money for HEALTHCARE?

  48. From what I understand, the UK coalition INCLUDES the party that one the most seats, whereas any talk of a coalition in Canada assumes the CPC would win the most seats, yet not be part of a coalition. I don’t get that. Here’s hoping for a majority!!

  49. The MSM has now proven itself to be socialists. I’m not worried.
    Conservative voters = individual freedom lovers who do their own work to succeed.
    Liberal voters = individual freedom lovers who sometimes lie and steal to succeed
    NDP voters = voters who rely on liberal & conservative voters to succeed.
    I believe a large minority of liberal voters will hold their nose and vote conservative tomorrow. As they will prefer to pay mostly for their own success; not the success of NDP voters.

  50. Batb, all good points.
    Mary, try Shaw Direct and possibly Bell satellite services.
    SaskTel Max will drag their feet offering Sun News as this channel goes against its base ideology and I doubt that the Sask Party get involved in what programming is offered.

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