Via Free Dominion;
If you are a Canadian and have volunteered on the McCain/Palin ticket, please contact Jeff Semple
jeff.semple@cbc.ca
They’re looking to interview such people.
He’s from the National News.
They’re also looking for more McCain supporters to interview. So just give this man a shout.
“[CBS] reported a loss of $12.46 billion, or $18.58 per share, compared with a profit of $343.3 million, or 48 cents per share, a year ago.”
The Canadian Journalism Project gets their ass handed to them by a girl.
Maureen Fitzhenry – Canadian Wheat Board media relations manager*.
Harry: we reserve the right to invite or exclude any individuals or groups from our corporate events. We will not be accepting your registration.”
Tel: (204) 983-3101
Cell: (204) 227-6927
maureen_fitzhenry@cwb.ca
“Friday, newspaper publisher Gannett Co., Inc. reported a 32.5% decline in profit for the third quarter…
More! – blood loss of the top 25 US dailies. Man, it looks good on them.
“Please do not submit ideas concerning dog fights, cock fights, or the Confederate flag.”
Related!
I watched a lot of porn. A colleague told me the first thing he did after checking in to a hotel was to check out their porn selection. I followed his example. I’d become an expert on the various hotel chains and what they offered. The best was clearly the Hyatt Regency; the Homewood Suites had the usual selection of XX features. On my last night in Manchester, after the primaries were over and the campaigns had moved on, I selected one called Nasty Older Sluts or something like that for $11.95. (Note to Newsweek accounting department: I never expensed the porn.)
Plus: The real origin of the “Obama is a Muslim” rumour!
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Election Rejection: CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million.”
“This is a group of your most senior journalists telling you our news service is losing crucial gravitas.”
(link fixed)
h/t Maz2
“So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?”
There are:
– 118 food banks
– 19 soup kitchens
– 9 community kitchens
And one Winnipeg Free Press strike.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Stephen Harper is quoted in a “wide ranging interview” – “I’m running to win this election. If I don’t win this election, I’m sure my party will look for another leader,”
Now, watch, as it’s run through the Kadyolator! – “[Harper] isn’t planning on sticking around to lead the Conservative charge against the dreaded Permanent Tax on Everything”
Name and party identity of his “lawmaker” father remains at large.
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More – “Yank this, bitch.” (Currently under heavy traffic demand).
“Hello, my handle is Quiplash”
Dear Cecil Rosner;
The Black Rod is on your Trevor Kennard “story” like white on rice;
The CBC said they obtained the letter from Ryan Schultz “who came across the letters while conducting research for a book on the local gay and lesbian community.”
Uh huh.
Shultz told CBC he was shocked by the letter.
“My personal question to the candidate would be: do you still espouse these views, and if so, why?”
The careful phrasing of the question is straight out of a political party phrasebook. It would be comical if it wasn’t so deliberate.
[…]
The CBC didn’t think that Schultz’s political bias or his own use of anti-homosexual epithets was worthy of reporting.
They did run to Lori Johnson, chair of the school board at the time Kennard wrote his letter, for comment, but without mentioning that she is an open lesbian and a chief promoter of the school board initiative that Kennard was opposing.
Nor did they mention that [Kennard’s Liberal opponent] Anita Neville sat on the school board in 1999 and, perhaps, might have been instrumental in providing a researcher with a certain letter from a certain candidate.
Update: Marty Gold, in the comments;
I was hosting the drive-home show at CFRW right after Gerry’s show. We were on the air until the day before the format was changed, at the end of June 1999.
Fast was NEVER ‘kicked off the air’, or fired as CBC has alleged.
It is well known that it was John Collison, NOT Fast, who was fired by CFRW, and I was hired to fill Collison’s slot.
If CBC could not even be bothered to get that detail right, and proceeded instead to make a false claim that smears an honest man they went out of their way to find and get a quote from – in my opinion they cannot be trusted on any aspect of this story.
Marty Gold
The Great Canadian Talk Show
Previous postings continue below.
Nobody at the meeting remembers Kennard specifically, but one attendee remembers meeting one man who “radiated hatred and homophobia.”
If anyone in the Winnipeg area can shed more light on this one, let me know. By “shed more light”, I mean I want the name of the reporter.
The other aspect of this story – someone in the school division made a decision to make this a story – by releasing a 9 year old letter from a parent and private citizen to the media. Now there’s the way to foster trust between school boards and parents. I find myself wondering why such an action shouldn’t be a firing offense?
Update – CBC has the online version here (without attribution to any reporter.) Note this passage;
Ryan Schultz, who came across the letters while conducting research for a book on the local gay and lesbian community, said he found Kennerd’s letter troubling.
Not to mention, timely.
Let that be a warning to any parent who dares to question school board social indoctrination of their children – your words may just “accidentally surface” some day and be used to paint you as an “intolerant homophobe*” in state-run media.
“Fire them all” isn’t good enough. We need to bury this wretched corporation so deep the worms won’t find it.
*typo corrected!
Do you think the economy will be better in 2009 than it was in 2007? Me neither.
So, how could the Newspaper Association of America predict that total advertising sales for the industry will drop by “only” 5.5% next year when they fell by 7.9% in 2007?”
Call it one of the Great Unsolved Media Mysteries of our Time.
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I watched Tom Clark interviewed on Mike Duffy Live yesterday. I waited for him to round out his critique of the performers with a mention of the many stunning inaccuracies uttered by 35 year Senate veteran and head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden. They never came.
Why was I waiting? Because, as a private, unaffiliated blogger in rural Saskatchewan, I receive alerts from McCain campaign. (Indeed, I receive more from their campaign than I do the Conservatives). I didn’t sign up for those – they found me.
Therefore, I can only assume the CTV Washington Bureau Chief would be among the thousands in media who received a copy of the rapid response that landed in my inbox in the hours after the debate; Joe Biden’s 14 Lies.
In addition, he’s being ripped far and wide for “hallucinations” like this;
IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN SPENDING: Biden said that the U.S. spends more in Iraq in one month than it has in Afghanistan in six or seven years.
That figure is off by 2000 percent.
Hell, even I noticed the nonsense about Hezbollah and the denial of his “rope line” statements on coal.
As CTV’s Washington Bureau Chief, with media status several orders of magnitude more important than mine, I find it inconceivable that Tom Clark was, over 12 hours later, apparently unaware of the factual errors and untruths uttered by Biden during the debate.
Thus, I can only assume that someone made a conscious decision not to share the information with viewers of CTV. That’s not editorial decision making, it’s filtering.
Just another brick in the growing wall between informed media consumers and the self-destructing profession we refer to as “mainstream” journalism.
The trust deficit explained, in one easy photo cropping.
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