This is aardvarking unbelievable.
The online webpage of Toronto newspaper the Star is running a free 4-minute promo-piece/campaign ad for Justin Trudeau that auto-plays when you click on the link to what appears to be a newspaper article.
The blatant campaign ad – because that’s what it is – is titled “Justin Trudeau’s intimate conversation with Susan Delacourt”. It’s a curious title, because Delacourt is not seen or heard once in the entire four minute promo piece, which has on-screen chapter headings, brief moments showing Trudeau reading from his own memoir, and a video-scrapbook of lovingly presented images, processed with the Ken Burns effect, set to Trudeau’s practiced, pandering voiceover.
This raises some serious questions.
How much did the Star pay for the production of this very professional looking, thinly-veiled campaign ad masquerading as an adjunct to an article about Trudeau’s memoir? Does the Star have its own paid highly professional video/film production team on standby capable of making such a polished piece, or did they pay an outside production company to make it?
One would have to assume for the unknowing moment that the Liberal Party didn’t produce or pay for it, or for any part of it, and that the Star didn’t use or consult with even one single member of Trudeau’s team to help write or craft or produce the video. But the Star broadcast it on the internet for free, with no trace of any reportage, or any commentary other than Trudeau’s, under the guise of a “News / Insight” article. In doing so, is the Star acting as a journalistic organization, or as a member of Trudeau’s election team?
If a news organization broadcasta over the internet a fawning, hagiographic puff-piece-slash-campaign ad, with a cloying, saccharine, daytime TV- music soundtrack, what does it say about the impartiality and quality of the rest of their “news” reporting?
Welcome to the Media Party Consortium’s current modus operandi: Networks collude behind-the-scenes to try to keep paid Conservative ads off the airwaves if the ads use even one second of footage of Justin Trudeau. Almost simultaneously, scores of pundits, many of them from the print divisions of those same broadcast organizations, decry and vilify Conservative attempts to solidify long-standing legal precedents of fair usage of such footage. Now, a national newspaper broadcasts over the internet, and almost certainly produces and pays for, a clip that gives every appearance of being little more than an extended Justin Trudeau ad.
Anyone see a pattern here?
[Correction: an earlier version of the post had the ads also appearing in other newspapers. This was based on a glance at online search results, and appears to be incorrect. I apologize for the error.]
Heres a thought.
I haven’t looked at that video but will it sound like a 70’s sitcome if someone dubbed in a laugh track?
Yes and CTV is doing a W5 special on Trudeau this weekend appparently. Looks like the media party going all out to promote an empty suit.
I’m not freaking out. We don’t need the press.
I am with you.
The pony has not to date offered up a serious well thought out answer to any question.
What he has offered up is pick up lines that frat boys use on impressionable young co-eds working on their MR’S.
The operative is – he’s one serious question away from a bozo erruption.
After that all this extra effort goes up in flames
Actually Joseph, because of the fair use law, someone could make a wonderful parody of it. I can hardly wait to hear what Ezra has to say about this.
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I mentioned on a previous article how the Liberals used Kennedy’s election style campaign to get the Senior Trudeau elected, and to prove that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree we have Junior attempting the same play. “Common Ground” appears to be a blatant attempt to again emulate the American Democratic Party by the Canadian Liberals, a vacuous account similar to the Obama memoir, but then again when it worked for the ‘One’ down south it will surely resonate with the LIV’s in the Great White North. This next twelve months is going to be unbearable.
Will his campaign slogan be “The Land Is Strong”?
wrong Trudeau brat was at the avalanche
Make me happy I cut off these liars when I cut my cable tv.
Good to hear he spent 3.5 months at his father’s bedside. I drove 3 hrs (0ne way) for 3 weeks to be with MY father when he had cancer. I still had to work/pay taxes during that horrible time to support my family.
Glad Justin had the time to spare as he doesnt even have a job AND my taxes support the precious lifestyle he and his family are exploiting now and forever.
*sniffle*
This must be the Burns effect you are referring to:
Mr. Burns On Ether
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pqcESS0gRc
Well of course they are trying to engineer “True-Dope-ia”…!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Just the idea of an intimate conversation with Susan Delacourt is reason enough to avoid this.
Its too bad the avalanche didn’t get them all. Senior Trudeau for ruining the country and the others to save us from this crap.
I wonder if the Trudeau family trust is running low. Pierre topped it up with taxpayers’ money by getting Petrocan to pay way too much for Petrofina. I mean a billion just isn’t what it used to be and Pierre’s spawn may not be the most wise spenders of stolen money so…… if they pay the newspapers to run Trudeau ads maybe they can get Trudeau elected and he can find some other worthy ‘Canadian’ project to invest in.
Couldn’t stand to hit the link, so I am speaking in the dark here, but others have spoken of Justin reading from his “memoir”. How does someone write a memoir when they have not actually done anything????
The real question is if these are actual ads by the Liberals or not.
If they are, then 4-minute ads would eat up lots of money. Load one up, turn your speakers off, go away and make coffee for a few minutes, come back and look at something else.
I’m in china right now, even in their new enlightened state they still have a constant barrage of revolution movies about Mao tse tung.
He would not recognize this china but I think it’s an attempt of the elite to justify their exist ance
I wonder how the army feels guarding commercial enterprises
I received this notice from the Liberal Party via e-mail. My question is, if it is to celebrate progress made by women (except muslims) then why is it called “person” day. I feel very proud to be a person today.
Robert —
Today’s a big day.
It’s Persons Day — an opportunity to celebrate the progress made by women, for women, in Canada.
Here at the Liberal Party, we’re incredibly proud of the strong, innovative and creative women who will be running under the Team Trudeau banner in the 2015 election.
I’ll check to see if the Calgary Herald fell in lock-step and also offered the video. If that proves to be true, I will cancel my annual subscription. As for Shiny Pony’s ‘memoirs’, I will not waste a dime on the book, but I am curious if he makes any reference to ‘Papa Fidel’ within that intellectual tome. The guy is an elitist socialist prig. Barf!
[Canuck66, I’ve amended the post and issued a correction. The Calgary Herald and the Ottawa Citizen (which provides the source article for the Herald) have articles with videos, but they’re not the same one as at the Star; they qualify as actual interviews, in that you can hear the journalist’s questions and Trudeau’s answers. – EBD]
I outdid both you and Junior.
I drove 20 miles to and from the hospital every day, leaving after work at 4.30 and arriving home at 9.30, not having seen my two children. Had Saturdays off as an aunt filled in. My husband also worked every day and prepared the meals I had planned.
That was for two months: February and March. Missed one night because of an ice storm.
My mother died, alone.
SO, TURDEAU, YES, TELL US ABOUT YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES.
I’m sure we have lots in common.
The man, his handlers, and the media have no shame.
Good call – and whether the ads are officially paid for by Libs isn’t that important. When the ad is playing SOMEONE is paying.
Geeze Louise EBD. I just ate! Now instead of peaceful digestion, I’m suffused with urgent nausea!
For what it’s worth, Warren Kinsella says that the unrelenting Bias against the Fords is what kept the ford’s campaign in the race.
Perhaps they will have a similar negative effect on JT.
Ryan (7:07 PM), re:
That’s one question, in the sense that the video does makes one wonder if perhaps Trudeau’s team had some input into the production/editing/content of the video, but no one could suggest at this point, for obvious reasons, that the Star’s Trudeau ad was made by the Liberals, or that anyone on Trudeau’s team made any contribution to this discussed instance of the Star’s “journalism”, whether in an advisory capacity or in any other way. It is safe to say, though, that it’s clearly an advertisement for the Liberal leader, that it was made either by or for the Star, and that the Star falsely presented it as being an interview between one of their journalists and the Liberal leader – which it clearly isn’t.
Someone took a great deal of time and trouble to professionally light Trudeau, and edit the footage, and add a touching musical soundtrack, etc., etc. It’s a celebrity production, an image-machine publicity piece, not journalism.
Imagine for a moment that CTV promoted an upcoming spot as “Justin Trudeau’s intimate conversation with Robert Fife”, but when you tuned in to the show there was no trace whatsoever of Robert Fife – not his questions, or his face – or of any other journalist, only a a carefully edited, self-hagiographic video of Justin Trudeau thoughtfully reading choice selected passages from his new memoir to the accompaniment of a professionally edited video slideshow and a touching soundtrack. Would that qualify as an interview, let alone as journalism?
Not a chance in hell. Everybody and their dog would understand that it would be nothing more and nothing less than a political ad for Justin Trudeau — which is exactly what the Star’s production (or the production made by whoever they might have outsourced it to in the Star’s name) is.
I cut off these liars when I cut my cable tv.
Exactly.. smart people who don’t like media propaganda did that years ago.
There is no doubt now about a media party collusion which also includes the press. It smacks of the involvement of the same American leftists who pulled off the same coup in the US to get Obama elected twice. Like Trudeau Obama is without substance, an empty suit, who is just a useful tool for the radicals pulling the strings. With SNN being the only exception and still not given the same availability as the CBC, CTV and the rest a large number of Canadians will never even know about the collusion. Even the Sun newspapers have been taken over by the Left, so I truly fear for the future of Canada. Canada cannot survive another Trudeau.
Uh, you did it to yourself, don’t blame others. Some of us know what dog s h i t looks like and will avoid stepping in it, while others have to taste it to be sure.
I viewed this evening the segment on CTV, showing Justin walking in the fall woods.
He was with his charming wife and little children. My socialist spouse (bless her)mentioned how “cute” the Liberal leader was.
Unbelievable how that network doted on Justin. I chuckled and tried to visualise a similar CTV segment, showing the Prime Minister and his charming family.
This I could not do. Nor by CBC either.
The ugly, unspoken subtext of the (frequent and inevitable) comments like yours — in effect, “I don’t watch/read (X), so who cares what they say!” — is that the commenter in each case deems his own pleasure/mood/self-satisfaction to be more important than what the propagandists are getting away with, and therefore by extension what government we end up with.
In a media-heavy democracy, when the mass media are on a constant vilification campaign against your political views and place a protective a cocoon around that of your opponents, you might not want to watch it, but you’d best keep an eye on it.
Doing a little commenting jig while remarking on how clever you are to avoid ‘tasting s**t’ – ohh ha ha ha — is a little bit like a “clever” German remarking in 1938 “Ha! Smart people like me who don’t like noise and breaking glass just don’t go to the Fasanenstrasse area!”
Well, good for you, but it doesn’t mean it’s not happening, or that others don’t understand what’s happening, and what’s at stake.
I will say this for you, North of 60: at least you’re smart enough to change your nick periodically.
It’s probably a good idea, although it doesn’t stop the rest of us from stepping in s**t.
It would make it simpler and more honest if the Star just published a daily J (for Justin) section.
Off topic for which I hope to be excused.
CTV has twice trumpeted that the “Prime Minister has been upstaged”.
This because of a visit by the Head of India to Canada. Someone of the same national origin got the information prior to any official Canadian notification.
What gives with these people?
If you think the media bias is bad in English Canada, try the French media. They love Mulcair and put up with Trudeau. Also the Montreal Gazette has never run a bad pic of Trudeau and never a good pic of Harper. There was even a Gazette editorial a few months ago using the phrase “common ground” which was obviously given its talking points by the Liberals.
The story is Conservatives are divisive. We are never reminded of how the Liberals pit the East versus the West, the French versus the English (Ignatieff promoting bilingual compulsory signage in Eastern Ontario when we get along just fine here) and the pro-life people versus the pro-choice people. Or how they have nothing but contempt for Christian fundamentalists. I am pro choice and not religious but I find Trudeau’s ruling out any pro life candidates disgusting.
I do keep an “eye on it”, but I don’t have to wallow in it, and be insulting about it like you just did. I expect better than personal insult from you. You’re better than that.
Why is it important to you if the ‘nick’ I get from the sign in process I now use to avoid the ‘capcha’ is different from the north of 60 I used before? Really, don’t you have more important things to fret about?
I use both ‘nicks’ on the internet, do try to keep up if it’s a concern to you.
Thank you EBD for the smackdown of this dolt North of 60/Galt, etc., etc. although stronger words may have been more appropriate to have any affect on what appears to be nothing more than a self-absorbed bully.
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When entering the polling booth voters choose strength and decisiveness every time. Jr. simply doesn’t have the ability to get the job.
The recent splurge of puff pieces are a reaction to Jr.’s softening poll numbers after his horrific performance recently on the ISIS issue and his bizzare pronouncements on abortion. The Liberals even made the unforced error of sending in Chretien the other day to help Jr. get his boots unstuck from the back yard mudhole.
The media has more of an interest in “the narrative” and catching the next big story than a particular ideology. The historical career cross dressing between the MSM and the Liberals makes it tougher but they are showing signs of tiring of Jr.
You do realize that newspaper readership and tv news viewer numbers are in the toilet. I wouldn’t worry too much about this self absorbed little puke and the gullible media swine that wallow in his vomit.
Remember that the media has lost the public trust by every survey and nonsense like this drives the point home even further. reading the comments in the Star shows that most people are not buying it.
Canuck66 shame on you for spending your money on Postmedia. They are members of the media party and so are you by buying their paper.
Cancel your subscription immediately.
Yeah well, I find it remarkable that I agree with Katsmeat’s opinion.
We both figure the media’s laying it on so thick and obvious is and will backfire, and is and will be a major turnoff.
Ezra christened it the “media party” but I get the feeling that most had figured that out already.
But then I am aware that my circle is somewhat limited and selected. Projection is such an easy trap. I would hate to be like that obtuse woman in New York who blurted out about “W”…..”I don’t understand how he could have won…nobody I know voted for him.”
“[Y]ou might not want to watch it, but you’d best keep an eye on it.”
That’s all too true, sorry to say.
The Media Party Consortium is re-creating Trudeau Mania right under our noses, using all media outlets free of charge to the LPC. They want us to believe he’s actually leading when he’s merely a front man for the LPC which sits as the third party in the HOC.
They better be careful, he may peak too soon, he has what it takes to fuddle duddle big time, happens every time he opens his mouth
Thomas Mulcair must be feeling lonely as the leader of the official opposition.
60% of Canadians are easily lead socialists. the low info voter will lap it up and Canada will be saddled with an inept pm even worse than hussien obama.
Bottom line, we own the CBC, they have no business shilling for any political party or leader which they are obviously and shamelessly doing with Trudeau. The government needs to do some reining in, they should be called to account and firings should ensue for instigating a Media Party Consortium. As usual they’re sitting back like scared rabbits watching it all happen.
The iogo cows yogurt advertisement was the best part to the video.
“When entering the polling booth voters choose strength and decisiveness every time.”
Really? I’m not sure that this was the case in New Brunswick last month.
Some commenters pride themselves in shutting off all media they consider biased. That is a reaction best exemplified by the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand. Not knowing what an adversary thinks or does is not a brilliant strategy, IMO.
Neither is trying to outdo other commenters in name-calling, inventing silly names for leaders of the opposition, as if those names will have a desirable negative effect on electors’ choices. Actually, denigrating or ridiculing one’s adversary may even have the opposite effect among undecided voters.
Rather than using attack ads that have apparently failed to produce the desired effect, the Conservative Party should perhaps consider self-deprecating ads for the actual election campaign, showing PM saying something like: “Hey, I’m not ‘cool’ like the other guy. If ‘cool’ is what you want, vote for him. My party is focused on ‘hot’ — a hot economy, that is, not on a ‘hottie’ leader.”
Agree totally Gabby, brilliant idea. Pass it on to the Conservative “war” room, they might just latch onto it.
I have to totally agree with you Gabby.
ATTACK ads do nothing but turn people off (for the most Part) Build on your strengths.
However you could easily build some good ads around his “Next Question Please” when asked twice about whether convicted terrorists should lose their citizenship. THAT would be perfect to remind ALL Canadians just what the F this puke is all about. (VOTES + POWER). I’m pretty sure that Islamic Violence and terrorism is on the top of Canadians List.
Bring on the debates….the little shit will wilt.
Trudeau: Despised his Father
Despise the Son.
I think many of us have had this experience. Mine was in the winter of 2002/2003, and for driving 60 km with y ife to the city almost daily to seey her for six months, except during snow storms. This does not make Trudeau the hero that is suggested in the book. It just makes him a good child,and no different than us.
EBD asks, “Anyone see a pattern here?”, and has an excellent opening thread comment that explains clearly what is currently happening. I think all of us here do see this pattern, and most of us have seen this pattern for decades. What is different this time is that it is more open and blatant.
The Media Party and Liberal Party coalition has begun the 2015 election campaign. They are desperate to win the election and put the Laurentian Elite back into power.