Not Waiting For The Asteroid

21 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

1. At least when they sign a petition, their biases are out in the open. Better that than the alternative of them sneakily letting their biases colour what they choose to report and how they report it. Unfortunately the latter choice is the one exercised daily by so-called objective journalists. Hello CBC, Star, Globe, CTV etc, etc.

2. And how many of them vote Liberal or Socialist?
   (but that is their constitutional right)

3. Objective journalism is a myth told to small children, like the tooth fairy or the easter bunny.
   The difference is you got some cash or chocolate with the tooth fairy and easter bunny, with journalists we get partisan shite.

4. “must exercise caution and not cause doubts about their neutrality,”
   In other words, how stupid are you people? Stop signing things!

5. they do not agree that it is a political act to have signed the petiotion they say it was like casting a vote in an election …….duuuuhhh
   Is casting a vote not a political act on the most basic level?
   Stupid clowns fire all who signed it.

6. I worked in broadcasting as a reporter for 6 years. I started out as a supporter of the NDP, but I let my membership lapse as I understood that party affiliation has no part in unbiased reporting. How is a right wing politician going to answer questions honestly to a reporter he knows doesn’t support him? My first loyalty is to my audience, not to my party! For the entire time I worked in the industry, I never let on how I voted. I even wrote a speech or two on the side for a Liberal MLA, simply because I could and he liked my writing. But my vote was my own. Of course, after a few years of actually listening to various political theory on the matter I started to get that socialism is idiocy and conservatism is better. It wasn’t until after I left the industry that I started putting signs up on my lawn. This is a sign of the polarization of society. I guess from now on the concept of neutrality in the press is ancient history, and all reporters are going to have to wear ID cards showing if they are red or blue. Lefty politicians will only talk to lefty reporters, to be reported in lefty newspapers and talked about on Bill Maher’s show. And the public won’t have a clue what the other side is saying.

7. “…Gannett’s principles of ethical conduct…”
   Which are:
   1)Do what we tell you to do, when we tell you to do it, with a smile.
   2)Don’t get caught.
   3)If you get caught, don’t splash any sh1te on us.

8. The Big Cee said: “And the public won’t have a clue what the other side is saying.”
   Sure we will. We just won’t find out on TV. We never did anyway.
   Besides, it’ll all boil down to the Conservatives making excuses why they can’t give us a tax cut and the Liberals calling them Nazis for even suggesting a tax cut. The NDP will call both parties raaaacist!!! for not funding free woolly mammoth rides and ice cream at free government daycare. (Yes, mammoths are extinct. It won’t matter to the NDP.)

9. Tribal warfare.

10. Not much different than kids joining gangs. Where do people think they get the idea?
    Divide and conquer…the oldest tactic in the book.

11. I was suprised to read how many commenters didn’t unnderstand the idea of objective reportage; conflating professional self-restraint with a rights abrogation.
    It shouldn’t have been such a shock, however, given the bent in news coverage everywhere. I remember with some fondness the good old days of the evil empires, when we could all bechmark one end of the propaganda spectrum with Soviet agitprop to compare our media to: if they agreed, we knew where agenda of a journalist was. Now we just have to assume the reporters are bent, and ignore them.

12. “…It has caused us to examine how this could have happened, how we will address it and how we will prevent it from happening again…We now are in the process of taking disciplinary measures and reviewing supplemental ethics training for all news employees…”
    I’m anticipating something tough – the healing power of a sentencing circle perhaps, with tom-toms, sweetgrass and healt-felt contrition.

13. I have no problem with reporters voting, signing petitions or exercising any other democratic rights. My problem is with the BS protestations of “unbiased”, “impartial” etc., etc. They’re mostly left wing shills. Just quit pretending and come out and say so!

14. “Ethical conduct”? For REPORTERS?
    Who’s delusional here?

15. You have to give Kevin Corrado points for pointing this out , than trying at least to stem the dishonesty. Much good it will do him.
    Todays society has no conception of integrity anymore. We have become Bi-polar. The last time in North America when people where this divided the Us had a civil war. The left cannot abide any course that conflicts with their ever shifting positions into moral chaos. They have no humor, nor tolerance for any view but theirs. Particularly Religion or collectivization. These traits are bound to become persecution as we have seen in every Socialist Nation.
    Its coming down to a show down on Individual, rights or Collective ones.

16. @Revnant Dream
    Collective rights are an abomination to the idea of rights, which naturally and necessarily belong only to individuals.
    Anytime spmeone starts talking about “collective” rights they are talking code: what they really mean is they are using the weight of numbers to arrogate your real and individual rights.

17. The Phantom @12:02 – “Yes, mammoths are extinct.”
    Extinct like velociraptors!

18. Perhaps, one day, scientists will clone the MSM.

19. “Perhaps, one day, scientists will clone the MSM”
    Why? Retardation happens by accident all the time.
    As to the mammoths, they are extinct. Until those guys reboot ’em. At which time I’m going to get one and give rides at the day care. “Jumbo! Put the nice teacher -down-. There’s a good boy!”

20. Doc
    I,m only pointing out the two camps. Personally I,m in the Individualist camp. There are getting fewer people by the day, who is not picking sides.

21. Doc – Agreed. The Big Cee – I disagree. It’s less that those making news are less likely to talk to those who are on the other side of the spectrum, it’s more that they are less likely to talk to those who ask “when do you plan to stop beating your wife?” Ask a straightforward question, and any interviewee is more likely to answer. Ask a 5-minute sermon-as-a-question and you’re more likely to be avoided next time.
    I’m sure that signing the petition wasn’t the first sign to readers that there was a leftist bent, but it is a proof-positive that can be pointed out to the paper to say “see, even your own people show that you’re not balanced. Where’s the 7 vocal supporters? Oh, there are none working there? Then how can you claim to represent all sides when you don’t have anyone who thinks like a conservative working there?”