How is this different from her day job?

The French-language arm of the CBC said Thursday it will summon for a meeting a reporter who took part in a web campaign launched by Quebec artists to protest Conservative cuts in culture subsidies and prevent the party’s re-election.
Isabelle Guilbeault, who reports on arts for the morning radio show in Quebec City, recorded a 30-second filmed spot for a campaign called Unite our voices.
Dozens of Quebec artists, including singers Dan Bigras and Richard Seguin and personalities like Ghislain Picard, chief of the Quebec and Labrador Assembly of First Nations, have recorded clips for the campaign that has a clear goal: Making sure Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t get re-elected Oct. 14.

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Michelle Malkin, from a lengthy post;

In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the [vice-presidential] debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on January 20, 2009 – a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.
The title of Ifill’s book? “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.” Nonpartisan my foot.

I’m with the many others who think Palin should open the debate by congratulating Ifill on her book.

h/t to OttRob
Note the dramatic rewrite of this Canadian Press “news” item. I created this post a few hours ago and scheduled it for publication this afternoon (as I often do). When I rechecked the link, it seemed to me that the content of the article had changed considerably.
It has.
The 10:00am version is still up at the Globe and Mail, the 3:45pm “update” at CTV is a completely different article from the CTV readers were responding to.
The original opinion piece posing as a news item, “No hugs for Harper” vs the editorially cleansed “Harper sees daughter off with one-armed squeeze”
And they say bloggers can’t be trusted?

CBC News publisher John Cruikshank, via Stephen Taylor;

Vince Carlin, the CBC ombudsman, has now issued his assessment of the Mallick column. He doesn’t fault her for riling readers by either the caustic nature of her tone or the polarizing nature of her opinion.
But he objects that many of her most savage assertions lack a basis in fact. And he is certainly correct.
Mallick’s column is a classic piece of political invective. It is viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan.
And because it is all those things, this column should not have appeared on the CBCNews.ca site.
[…]
Ombudsman Carlin makes another significant observation in his response to complainants: when it does choose to print opinion, CBCNews.ca displays a very narrow range on its pages.
In this, Carlin is also correct.
This, too, is being immediately addressed. CBCNews.ca will soon expand the diversity of voices and opinions and be home to a diverse group of writers with many perspectives. In this, we will better reflect the depth and texture of this country.

Previous – Unfair. Unbalanced.

So what happened?

Bottom line is that the CBC and the Globe and Mail and the Liberal Party could not acknowledge that a Liberal candidate had been taken down by a weird coalition of lefty (Dawg), neutral, (Black Rod) and apparently righty (me, Kate, Kathy, Free Dominion and the rest of you scoundrels) bloggers. So they had to invent the idea that the CJC was driving the action.
Kids, the CJC found out about Ms. Hughes because the Lying Jackal smelt death in the air. Left to their own devices those fearless Nazi hunters would not have found Hughes. Ever. The Jackal earned his keep.

The CBC and the Globe and Mail hate being killed on a story. They were killed here even though a Globe and Mail reporter had called the Hughes HQ before I did. Making the best of a bad situation they have thrown the credit to the CJC….tough nuggies Dawg and Black Rod. At least you made it into the Post.

What the Hughes story is actually about is laziness. A lazy Liberal Party which cannot be bothered to vet its candidates and a lazy national media which cannot do the most basic invesitgation.

Or acknowledge their sources.

Give Vince Carlin his due;

Review of complaints about Heather Mallick’s column of September 5, 2008
This office received about three hundred complaints concerning a column by Heather Mallick entitled “A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention” (CBCNews.ca, September 5, 2008).
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Policy calls for opinions to be based on fact. Ms. Mallick’s item generally stays in the opinion column but she does offer some flat statements that appear to offer “facts” without any backup. For instance, there is no factual basis for a broad scale conclusion about the sexual adequacy of Republican men. In fact, that type of comment, applied to any other group, would easily be seen as, at best, puerile. Similarly, the characterization of Palin supporters as white trash lacks a factual basis. I asked Ms. Mallick to explain the basis for these characterizations. In a note she explained her opinions of Ms. Palin, but did not provide a factual justification for the statements.
Ms. Mallick is free to draw her own conclusions about Ms. Palin’s appearance, as irrelevant as that might be to her worth as a public official, but a similar sortie against one of her children is, at best, in poor taste. Had Ms. Mallick’s article been labeled “satire,” there might have been scope for such descriptions and conclusions—they have a certain cartoonish tinge—but even the best and most pointed editorial cartoonists have, at some point, run afoul of sensible editorial authority. There is a significant difference between censorship and appropriate editorial oversight. CBC journalists are required to exercise appropriate oversight over material that appears on CBC outlets. Ms. Mallick is entitled to her opinions, and those opinions should not be censored, but those opinions must also be expressed in a manner that meets our Journalistic Standards and Practices. Liberty is not the same as license.
[…]
But there is another significant aspect to our policy. As mentioned, it calls on CBC outlets to touch on the widest range of views possible. On CBCNews.ca, there does not appear to be a wide range of “pointy” views. For instance, many of those who complained claimed that there is no one of an opposite ideological viewpoint readily apparent on the service. Unfortunately, this appears to be true. As I observed in an earlier review concerning CBC Newsworld programming, the CBC should not necessarily avoid having people of strong views on the air, but we must ensure that people of differing views are given a fair opportunity.
[…]
CONCLUSION:
Portions of Ms. Mallick’s column do not meet the standards set out in policy for a point-of-view piece since some of her “facts” are unsupportable.
[…]
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

“This was not Mr. MacDonald’s finest work….” (PDF)
h/t Jim O.

“The initial flood of coverage of the Palin email saga soon slowed to a trickle, however, even as new and shocking information about the case was revealed. Why? Instead of revelations about a Republican scandal, the story’s focus quickly shifted to a federal crime investigation with a Democratic suspect. The major media’s interest evaporated just as quickly.“

h/t

“… maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.”
And runner up in this, the Media Category – “We’ve received the message loud and clear, Globe. Your readers should never trust anything they find in your newspaper.”
h/t

Andrea Shea King, by email;

Just before the 2004 election, my morning drive radio program co-host and I co-hosted a screening of *”Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal”* (the
documentary about the Vietnam POWS who served with John Kerry). We knew there wasn’t a TV outlet that dared to broadcast it (because they were either in the tank for or buckling to pressure by the Kerry people), so we took the lead and screened it for our community at a local hotel. We also had POW Kevin McManus and a couple of Swifties there to speak to the crowd.
The turn out exceeded expectations — we showed the film *four times* that evening. The hotel ballroom was SRO for the first 3 viewings, with folks jamming the lobby waiting for the next viewing.
The local media was there — Florida Today (a Gannett paper) sent a reporter and a photographer who took pictures of the crowded room.
The following day, Florida Today reported in a bottom of the fold article (local section) that “More than 150 attended”. They never ran a photo.
We were stunned by the blatant lie, as were the 1500+ who were there. For several days thereafter, our radio show phone lines were jammed with callers who knew the truth and were fit to be tied at Florida Today.
Just another example of how they twist the truth. I mean, after all, they weren’t *really* lying… there was *more than 150* at the event.
My cohost and I made it a point thereafter to bang Florida Today every chance we got. It was war.

The Republicans might take a page from Obama’s book and sponsor a free Nascar race prior to the next Sarah Palin appearance…

On the other hand, perhaps they don’t have to.

Behold, ye lowly bloggers! Tremble before the awesome fact-checking powers of the Canadian Press!

His personal story – from his five months as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to his penchant for going against Washington’s status quo – helped earned him the moniker, the Maverick.

h/t WW
Update: SDA gets results!

Corrective: McCain spent five years as prisoner of war in Vietnam THE CANADIAN PRESS
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ The Canadian Press erroneously reported Thursday that
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spent five months as a prisoner of
war in Vietnam. In fact, McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five
years.

5,000 canceled subscriptions?

“They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water, and their mistake was thinking everyone who reads Us is a Democrat, when they’re not.”

Looks like Oprah’s a slow learner, too.

Original link
(h/t to Peter)

In terms of this year’s conventions, the preliminary rating for NBC’s coverage last night is higher than any other night of the convention on the broadcast networks, including Sen. Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on Aug. 28.

Rush, (on Wednesday before the speech);

I think once this gets going, and as I said yesterday once this hits full stride, the Barack Obama campaign’s going to realize what a loser choice it made in putting Joe Biden on the ticket, mark my words. There’s going to be a huge reversal of this by the time this all shakes out. But why are they trying to force her off the ticket? If she’s this big a trailer trash, and if she’s so inexperienced, why not leave her there? She should be easy to beat, right? Well, that’s the key. They’re scared to death of her. They are frightened like they haven’t been frightened in a long time. They thought they had succeeded in nullifying and eliminating the conservative wing of the Republican Party. They thought that they had succeeded in creating an impression among Americans at large that conservatism was in disfavor, that it was in a funk, that it was a minority, and here comes Palin, Sarah Palin just in her being, in her essence, simply destroys every myth and every lie that the liberals have told us that they want in women.

Bingo.
Now we know what had them so frightened. Tied.

Jonathan Kay is embarrassed by an industry that probably doesn’t deserve him;

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that readers will miss the mainstream media when we’re gone. Oh sure, bloggers have a lot of spicy opinions. But when it comes to investigating important stories, they don’t hold a candle to big, deep-pocketed, old-fashioned newspaper writers and broadcast media outlets.
Imagine my embarrassment, then, when it turned out this week that the flagship newscast on the biggest, deep-pocketedest, old-fashionedest Canadian media outlet of them all — the taxpayer-funded CBC–got suckered into reporting a story that the blogosphere chewed up, debunked and spit out two days earlier.

Except that there’s nothing remarkable about this. Debunking mainstream media agenda-driven “journalism” has the bread and butter of the political blogosphere for years. Newsbusters, Media Mythbusters, the thousands of eyes at LGF, the specialists at Icecap and Anthony Watts countering weather hysteria and junk science – open source critical analysis is out there for the taking, it’s free, and yet the mainstream media continues to be deaf, dumb, and blind.
I’ve said it before – this isn’t an extinction. It’s suicide.
News consumers are no longer willing to be passive recipients of filtered, uninformed, agenda-driven journalism. They’re not just showing the imposters up for what they are, they’re responding – in subscription cancellations, channel changing, and plain old talk back;

Dear (name withheld):
I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail, which I have shared with Mark
Harrison, acting Executive Producer of The National, along with the request that
your concerns be addressed.
Yours truly,
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

We’ll be following this one.

And not of them has heard of William Ayers. “Oh, you truth-telling rebels!”

Word of Biden’s selection came too late for the evening network newscasts, many late local TV news shows and the deadlines of several East Coast newspapers. While all the media were able to catch up with the story on their websites, a paper like the Wall Street Journal had no VP story on its front page; papers like the New York Times had to run weasel-worded articles about how it might be Biden or someone else, and papers like Newsday and the Cleveland Plain Dealer urged readers to visit their websites to get the latest news.
With all due credit to ABC for the late-night Biden scoop, its inability to do much with the story demonstrates how lame the mainstream media can look in a situation like this.

A fine way to treat your friends!

Sayeth our old friends – “CTV News Staff”.

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health is crediting the system put in place following SARS with detecting the current listeriosis outbreak.
Dr. David C. Williams says a pattern began to emerge from health units across southern Ontario and when more cases than expected began to appear, officials were able to link them to one strain of the disease.

Maz2 provides the heads up;

MSM does not mention Conservative Minister Clement’s name in this report. While Ontario Minister of Health, Minister Clement set up the “SARS detection system”.

It’s not as though he’s been flying below the radar.