73 Replies to “The Media Party”

  1. This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian speaking gently back to the Youtube: “You do speak for me.”

  2. It is hard to know who to believe in this situation. Bell is both a signal carrier and content provider. Part of that content is CTV Newsnet, which Bell owns. Thus Bell has an interest in not seeing a rival news operation succeed financially.
    For its part, is the unproven Sun News trying to hit an instant jackpot with demands for fees higher than a start-up should reasonably expect?
    I think Bell has the most to lose. If they are seen to be trying to financially hobble (by blocking the signal) of a rival that could potentially steal viewers from their own news operation, it becomes a good argument against letting a carrier also be a content provider. Same goes for Rogers and other media conglomerates if similar wrangles erupt between them and Sun News over subscriber fees.

  3. Poll at Regina.CTV.ca. Do you support Sask teachers one day strike to support their (12 per cent in one year) wage demands?

  4. Bell is doing the bidding of the CRTC; it’s censorship; censorship of conservative opinion.

  5. It is so great to have Ezra et al saying so many of the things I have been thinking all these years. Thank you SunNews…
    On another topic…
    I hope every person from Quebec who voted NDP gets a chance to drive through Pat Martins riding some time and see what a few years of NDP representation will get them….
    Have fun with that.

  6. Ezra is amazing – he has sharpest wit and it cuts to the bone of the issue instantly. It’s actually rather jarring (in a good way) to hear it enunciated on TV like this.
    ‘Consensus media’ is a great term for describing the dreary monotony of CBC et al. I ‘spects Consensus politicians will soon find a way to decline interviews with Ezra for fear of being so casually exposed.

  7. Way back when Ralph Klein quit being a reporter for CFCN news and was running for the mayor of Calgary, CBC reporter Terry Milewski did a number on him. It was a long time ago so I’m paraphrasing; Terry Milewski reported that Klein had “been involved with prostitutes, drug dealers and other nefarious types”. Ralf blew a gasket when he heard Milewski’s report. Klein said that as a reporter he had interviewed prostitutes etc. but phrasing it as “involved with” was pure chicken shit reporting. Ever since then he’s been Chicken Shit Milewski to me.

  8. Great show with a great guy behind the microphone.
    I do have a small question. Would it be reasonable to think that the CBC clan should be just a little bit worried about Government
    funding?

  10. The left will do whatever it takes. Everybody switch to Shaw, dump your bell phone and internet. Cancel anything anything connected to bell globe media

  11. I’ve already sent Bell an email. If they don’t pick up Sun TV, I’ll be switching. I encourage everyone to help put the pressure on Bell.

  12. A few years back,BellGlobeMedia and the liberal party were very closely connected. I think that one of their board,perhaps Mike Crowley,took time off to run the Ontario Liberals campaign.

  13. Terry Molester is sometimes a partisan, dirty trick, hitjob reporter. Which is fine.. I have no problem with those types OUTSIDE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR. If the CBC were not subsidized I would have no problem with their left wing hyperpartisanship, but as a crown corporation their behavior is corrupt – a conflict of interest.

  14. I would have guessed Ezra had picked up Terry’s “frog stepped” comment. Allusions to the Nazi’s.
    How Steve Harper could stand silently during Terry’s rant is unbelievable.

  15. I agree old Lori, that’s Ezra at his finest. He’s got the gift no doubt about that. Everybody should send this to all their friends and family (and others) across Canada to show them what they’re missing without Sun TV. I’ve been going back and forth tonight between Sun TV and the hockey-Canucks won in OT BTW- and every show has interviewed people from all the parties. It’s respectful, adult conversation.

  16. Ezra is a breath of fresh air. Just hearing him speak inspires me to give voice to non-PC opinions that have remained unsaid because of self-censorship.

  17. What a bunch of crap. Just because their parties of choice are no longer able to hold the House of Commons hostage. This only confirms that the left-wing media of this country are desperately seeking to destroy the conservative wave that is moving through the country. Boo effin hoo.

  18. As he’s coming to his “Best Before” date, he’ll get really, really outrageously partisan and insulting, then sail off into the sunset with some hideously huge pension from Mother Corpse. Makes a fella pig biting mad!!!

  19. Just realized that Ezra has coined a new term. “The Media Party”
    A term I intend to use frequently.

  20. Ezra has been great on every clip of his I’ve seen. I was a subscriber to the Western Standard as it was the only Canadian newsmagazine that I could read without, at some point, tossing it into the nearest garbage.
    It’s quite a strange feeling not yelling at the TV but rather agreeing with what I see and hear.
    Not enough to make me get cable TV but, for those people who still watch TV, I’m sure it will get them thinking in ways that the media-party has been trying to prevent. Sorry Ezra, it’s going to have to stay as MSM as MP’s already been taken.

  21. Gawd I hate Shaw. I dislike Bell too, but I will never bring myself to subscribe to Shaw again. I’d rather live without Sun News than give a dime to Shaw. If there is any justice, the Conservatives will open up competition in the TV industry so that I might find a company that I can give my money to without throwing up in my own mouth.

  23. I think Terry is just always on the hunt for a big GOTCHA moment like the pundits hoping for the “you had a choice” debate KNOCKOUT. Sure yeah he was the peppergate man but to me that doesn’t prove his objectiveness.

  24. Great rant. More to come I hope.
    Ezra calls them the consensus media but I have referred to the electronic ‘journolist’ in Ottawa and GTA as The ‘lock-step’ media – like storm troops on the parade ground doing tight order drill with any given news item. Spun to fit their narrow wold view template. It’s why I haven’t read or subscribed to a GTA-centered chain paper or watched GTA centered network news for over a decade. And they wonder why MSM papers are failing and MSM viewership is thin.

  25. Thank you Ezra , for saying what I’ve been trying to say since the beginning of this campaign. It’s time to examine the usefulness of the CBC. If it wasn’t for Rex and Chantel and the NHL there would be no point in watching the CBC.

  26. Now that Maclean’s no longer carries Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant has now become the people’s champion, the David who stands up to the “Consensus Media” Goliath.
    It may be called Sun News, but Levant is the light.

  27. Great rant by Ezra. The Sun coverage of the election was an excellent part of the May 2 election day; the adult, expert commentary made me think that I was in another age – I did not feel violated by the msm for being a Conservative! After all the elections I have been through waiting for a Conservative/Reform/Alliance victory, feeling sick at the end of the night because I forced myself to listen to those sneering prigs on the msm so I could follow the results – this night, the night that my team won, I had Sun TV to smile with me from my computer window. Thank-you Sun TV.
    The N. monopoly provider Northwestel does not have any plans to carry Sun TV. It took them years to carry Fox News (no Fox Business) and it came with a big premium. There is a big culture void here.

  28. I was finally able to sit down and watch Sun TV News at length tonight (while checking periodically on the Canucks game) and it finally sunk in that our (“our”, in this case, meaning SDA commenters) fondest hopes have been realized. They’ve been taking on the CBC, for example, in terms that had previously been entirely restricted to online comments and the occasional (rare) column in the NP, and they’ve got the best Canadian TV talk show hosts ever – this, after just two weeks.
    I was looking forward to Sun TV News but I had no idea that it would be so vigorous and brash and uncompromising, or that it would have such a strong (small-c) conservative perspective; I assumed that it would be somehow watered-down.
    It’s unfortunate that so many people in certain regions are still unable to watch it. Hopefully that will change as more people start demanding that their cable companies provide it.
    Big thanks to SDA Matt for helping to show people what they’re missing.

  29. At about 2:20 Terry says “we’d appreciate your comments on this in both languages if you don’t mind..”
    Anyone know if Milewski speaks French. Maybe he should ask his question in both official languages if he wants and answer in the same.

  30. An excellent part of election day coverage? Because of our election laws and Suns structure they were still operating under a blackout here in Ontario while CBC and CTV were showing results. Amateur hour.

  31. WE, here in Woodstock Ontario had been “Star Choice” subscribers until Shaw took over that satellite provider a while back.
    At Star Choice we dropped CNN Cable and traded instead for FOX Cable News network when the CRTC allowed Fox into Canada legally.
    My understanding is that Shaw are offering SUN TV “free” for a six month period.
    So far so good!
    Now I am waiting for Kate McMillan to be a guest contributor at SUN TV!

  32. I’ve mentioned before that a petition could be started to cut a billion dollars of funding to CBC. There is absolutely no need for the news organization to exist under present conditions. The CBC “demand” that our government be open to the scrutiny of the Auditor General, yet at the same time refuse to let the same Auditor General even think of touching their books. The CBC accuses the government of Canada of cover-up, yet again, appear to be covering up what they are doing with our tax dollars. What do they have to hide? It is just like “almost” all politicians [98%] do not want the Auditor General to look at their expenses. Part of the Tax-payers Rights should include an accounting of how our tax dollars are spent. That is why Canada has a Auditor General.
    Since CBC started, it was to be a medium to connect remote Canadians to the rest of Canada. They have fulfilled that mandate since the start of the internet. There is no region in Canada that cannot be reached by radio/tv waves, by other providers such as CTV – which is NOT funded by tax dollars. If anybody, other than CBC employees, can give ten reasons as to why we should keep giving – unaudited – over a billion dollars yearly to keep on air, I would consider not thinking of a petition.
    Personally, I think if there is a lawyer on SDA who could word a petition that could be copied and presented for signatures throughout Canada, there would be enough signatures to make our desire known to the Government of Canada. If each reader/commentator were to get at least fifty signatures, to cut a billion dollars yearly to the CBC, I am quite sure there would be enough signatures to do something about this problem. That billion dollars could be spent on health care or military [fighter jets for instance.]
    Also, the transfer payments to provinces should be reevaluated, for some reason Quebec gets billions and no other province get more than a billion. Something wrong with this picture. I do not think Albertans mind helping struggling provinces, but reality is, Quebec does not need 80% of the transfer payments, just to buy their loyalty to Canada – which by-the-way will never consider leaving Canada as long as they get our tax dollars.
    Just a thought

  33. Terry Mildew helped PM Harper get his majority, Terry can retire now, his job is done.

  36. Ezra at his best! He’s becoming a seasoned talk-show veteran, and he’s been on-air less than a month! The best is yet to come!
    As for cuts to the CBC, I suspect that Prime Minister Harper will do it bit by bit. I doubt if there will be a big announcement of a significant decrease in government support for the CBC, in keeping with the CPC’s promise to govern all Canadians (they know there are significant numbers of “Friends of the CBC,” who are well-placed in our chattering classes).
    However, I’m sure that, being the superb strategist he is with his attention to the finer details, Prime Minister Harper will find a way to clip the CBC’s wings.
    It’s about time. These bloated, arrogant, bullying left-lib apparatchiks have seemingly done their worst in this election campaign and it didn’t make any difference to the outcome — or, if it did, it’s that a significant portion of the electorate came out in droves to support PM Harper and the CPC as a protest vote against the consensus media! (Aside from being lousy reporters, these guys aren’t even effective propagandists anymore!)
    Yes, death by a thousand cuts.

  37. Off Topic:
    Though this would interest many of your readers, I guess Gayle is whimpering for the next few years because of the Con’s “vicTORY.” I thought you would want the quote incase Gayle comes back early – this way we can call her a promise breaker, lol. I guess Gayle has nothing to defend or even being involved in rebuilding the LIEberal party [who, personally, I think they should give the leadership back to DeYawn.]
    Gayle said…
    Steve
    Just want to say thanks for the blogging and the venue. I told myself before the votes were counted that I would take a break from my political obsession if the CPC won a majority.
    So if you are around in 4 years I will “see” you again. ‘Til then – take care.
    12:49 AM, May 03, 2011
    http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20358187&postID=3054125709360290837
    Peace and quiet for a few years … yet, now we have Elizabeth May to take her place

  38. “For its part, is the unproven Sun News trying to hit an instant jackpot with demands for fees higher than a start-up should reasonably expect?”
    On election night CTV had 2.16 million viewers, CBC 2 million, Global 668,000. Sun TV about 100,000.
    I don’t know what they’re demanding but it might too much.

  39. I am quite sure there would be enough signatures to do something about this problem. That billion dollars could be spent on health care or military [fighter jets for instance.]
    Posted by: Clown Party at May 4, 2011 6:32 AM


    You are actually quite close to the mark with that comment. For what it’s worth, I have a suspicion that the Conservative government’s numbers on the F-35 purchase will come in on the low side. These things have a way of increasing. Yet, even if we were to take the higher estimate of $29.5 billion spread over 30 years which would not start until 2017, we have an expenditure that would average about $1 billion per year from 2017-2046.
    I am not an accountant and I have not seen how the estimates were done, but I understand that these are only the costs for the F-35. If that is so, then the net government expenditure would be less than $1 billion per year after the savings from the retirement of the F-18 program were accounted for.
    Your comment may have been made in jest, but it actually is right on the mark. Even taking the higher F-35 estimate into account, the allocation of the CBC annual government subsidy to the other purposes would pay for the F-35 purchase and have the savings from the cancellation of the F-18 for other purposes (including non-military). Good comment.

  40. Reader’s Digest conclusion for Ezra’s comment:
    The election results of Monday was a huge blow to the George Soros/UN/Social engineering media.
    “…Still too much frickin freedom…Beck down here, now Levant up in Canada…I want to thrown them both to my sharks with lazer beams… ”
    George Soros sitting at his desk with his pinky on the bottom side of his mouth

  43. I watched SunNews for a while yesterday and grinned every time the host mentioned the “state broadcaster.” Seems she used to work there so she knows what she is talking about.

  44. Ezra is great!
    A good litmus test to determine if a ‘reporter’ is a card carrying member or the media party is if they insist on using the term ‘tarsands’ rather than ‘ethical oil’.

  45. Levant gets a home run with that one. I’d forgotten about Wafer-Quiddick, but the comparison is genius. The mind fairly boggles at imagining the coverage Harper would get if caught doing what Taliban Jack Layton was.
    So yes, no wonder Bell stopped carrying SUN-TV. Even the sclerotic seat polishers on the Bell upper management team can see that SUN is going to eat their lunch and then kick sand in their face.
    Now would be an EXCELLENT time to kick into motion the vast, creaky regulatory machinery the Liberals built to guard their media monopoly over the last 70 years, and turn it on them. Conservatives can do that, y’know.
    The sweet, sweet schadenfreud of using the Liberal’s creation, the CRTC, to destroy their unfair advantage, their party AND the whole idiotic machinery of tax-and-spend governance they made, well its giving me a sugar high. Its better than putting The Church Lady in charge of the CHRC.
    As some DemocRat peckerhead said at Clinton’s inauguration in 1992, “They’re OUR jets now.”

  46. Love SunTv news. I believe we fork over aprox $400.00 per year/per every person in Canada to the Communist Broadcasting Cesspool. I would gladly give my share to SunTV instead of the CBC.
    Bell customers, give Shaw a call.

  48. I’m working with a fresh, young university educated co-worker who, until this very morning didn’t know that the CBC was taxpayer funded. Just WOW!
    He was visibly shocked when I explained that little piece of Canada to him and how much of his paycheck goes annually to fund them.
    Shocked! A real Whiskey. Tango. Fox. moment

  49. Also has anyone noticed the huge decrease in anti conversative comments at the newspapers IE the L. Martin column in the globe. Last week the left was going nuts now the majority are Harper friendly. Is it because most of the comments are “astro-turf” maybe like paid Lib war room guys?

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