That new all-woman media enterprise, GreenStone Media, backed by Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, has a splashy website to promote the all-talk radio network. The website also lists some of Gloria’s favourite blogs. But based on the traffic patterns on the first blog listed, it seems like getting the nod from GreenStone Media makes no difference to a blog’s traffic.

Which makes me wonder just how many people are going to the GreenStone Media website…and then how many people are listening to the radio shows.

Not too many, apparently. But judge for yourself.

Saying goodbye to a member of Canada’s cultural elite;

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The chairman of the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has resigned after remarks about bestiality and ruminations about defecation, Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda said on Tuesday.
Guy Fournier created an uproar in Canada’s Lebanese community and in the media when he claimed that Lebanon allowed men to have sexual relations with female animals, but reserved the death penalty for those who did so with male animals.

If you’re looking for the item on the CBC website – scroll down, way down, under “arts and entertainment”.

Take the “Find Afghanistan On A Map Quiz for Canadian Reporters”

Play the game here!
Then, sent the link along to “Sylvain Larocque, correspondent parlementaire”, care of editors@cp.org.
(Story here)
h/t – Maz2 in the comments
UPDATE – Sylvain Larocque explains in the comments;

Hello everyone,
I don’t want to hide, but it was actually a translation mistake. The original story can be found
here.

Thanks for the clarification, Sylvain.

David Warren

This was not a crude anti-Islamic polemic; nor was it so at the end of the 14th century. It was a quest for peace and amity, then as now.
By turning the story back-to-front, so that what’s promised in the lead — a crude attack on Islam — is quietly withdrawn much later in the text, the BBC journalists were having a little mischief. The kind of mischief that is likely to end with Catholic priests and faithful butchered around the Muslim world. Either the writers were so jaw-droppingly ignorant, they did not realize this is what they were abetting (always a possibility with the postmodern journalist), or the malice was intended. There is no third possibility.
From the start, the BBC’s reports said the Pope would “face criticism from Muslim leaders” — in the present tense. This is a form of dishonesty that has become common in journalism today. The flagrantly biased reporter, feigning objectivity, spices his story by just guessing what a man’s enemies will say, even before they have spoken.
[…]
From now on, the reporting will be about the Muslim rage, and whether the Vatican has apologized yet. That is the “drama” the media will seek to capture — the drama of the cockfight — because they know no better kind. That the Pope said nothing intrinsically objectionable will be overlooked, in deference to the Muslim rage, just as the media hid the Danish cartoons from their viewers — preventing them from discovering how mild they were.

Looks like the project was a success. Though I doubt this will make it to the front pages of the New York Times.

(Via Michelle Malkin)
The script in red calls for his beheading.

1929 – 2006
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More – Michael Ledeen remembers a friend..
As Muslims roam streets around the world in search of Roman embassies to burn, this Fallici quote;

Now, I ask myself: “What do you say, what do you have to say, about what happened in London?” They ask me face-to-face, via fax and email; often scolding me because up until now I have remained silent. Almost as if my silence were a betrayal. And each time I shake my head and murmur to myself: what else should I say?!? I’ve been saying it for four years–that I fight against the Monster that has decided to eliminate us physically and, along with our bodies, to destroy our principles and values. Our civilization. For four years I’ve been talking about Islamic Nazism; about the war against the West; about the death cult; about European suicide. About a Europe that is no longer Europe, but Eurabia, and that with its feebleness, its inertia, its blindness, its servitude to the enemy is digging its own grave. For four years, like another Cassandra, I’ve been shouting until I’m hoarse “Troy is burning! Troy is burning!” and I despair of the Danaids for whom, like Virgil in the Aeneid I weep for a city entombed in its torpor. [A city] that, through its wide-open doors receives fresh troops and joins complicit parties [inside]. For four years I’ve been repeating to the wind the truth about the Monster and its accomplices; that is, the accomplices of the Monster who, in good or bad faith, open wide the doors–who, like [those] in the Apocalypse of John the Evangelist, throw themselves at his feet and allow themselves to be stamped with the mark of shame.
I began with “The Rage and the Pride.“ I continued with “The Force of Reason.“ I followed [those] with “Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci,” and “The Apocalypse.” And in each one I preached, “Wake up, West! Wake up!“ The books, the ideas, for which in France they tried me in 2002, accusing me of religious racism and xenophobia. For which Switzerland asked our Minister of Justice to extradite me in handcuffs. For which in Italy I will be tried for vilifying Islam; that is, for an offense of opinion. (An offense that carries a sentence of three years in prison; none of which will be served by the Islamist caught with explosives in his cantina). Books, ideas, for which the “Caviar” left, the “Fois Gras” right, and even the “Prosciutto” Center have denigrated and vilified me, putting me in the stocks together with all who think as I do. That is, together with the sensible and unprotected people who are defined by the radical-chic in their frivolous talk as “the riff-raff of the Right.

Via Michelle Malkin, who has more.

SDA Flashback September 8;

Christine St-Pierre, a veteran Ottawa correspondent for French-language public broadcaster Radio-Canada, wrote an open letter to Canada’s 2,300 troops telling them to ignore mounting criticism of the mission.
[…]
Radio-Canada suspended her for breaching internal rules that stipulate employees are not allowed to express their opinions on controversial issues, La Presse said. No one at Radio-Canada was immediately available for comment.

CBC Watch;

CBC/Radio-Canada chairman Guy Fournier has sparked outrage from the Lebanese community in Quebec. In his bi-weekly compilation of ‘facts’, jokes and statistics for the magazine “7 jours”, titled “Bizarre? Mets-en!” he included: (Translated)
“Lebanon, the law makes it possible to the men to have sexual intercourse with animals in the condition which they are females! To do the same thing with male animals can involve the death penalty! ”
Printed in the most widely circulated magazine in Quebec, the false statement has sparked outrage. La Presse reported that a Montreal Lawyer Joseph Daoura from the firm Ferland, Marois, Lanctôt confirmed that no such law exists and the he would seek a retraction from the puiblisher TVA publications and sister publisher Quebecor media.
Fournier did not write the source of the information. He told La Press that he was amused by the controversy: “One should not leave in war for nothing. I do not understand how that that can insult people. In any context, it is rather funny”

Reaction from Radio-Canada: “We do not have comments to make.”

Air America hosts Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo have announced they will continue to broadcast to their loyal listeners by conference call.

And fully one third of the “news” report is devoted to editorial comment by CTV’s Craig Oliver.
Video of Harper speech.
Full text in the extended entry.

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David S. Broder thinks Karl Rove is owned an apology, and that;

…all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.

The Black Rod– Pompous Press Gallery throws in the towel;

And two weeks ago, the boycott split like a ripe tomato. Four reporters decided that bringing more details about the softwood lumber deal was more important to the public than a useless fight about a list. Peter O’Neil of the Vancouver Sun, Mark Kennedy of the Ottawa Citizen, Joel Denis Bellavance of La Presse and Randall Palmer of Reuters told the PMO: Put us on the list.
Stephen Harper phoned each of the reporters and they got exclusive interviews including this one in the National Post:Harper vows election fight over softwood deal.

Paul Wells has the play by play (scroll down) .

Lose your job;

One of Canada’s top television reporters has been suspended from her job for praising the country’s increasingly troubled military mission in Afghanistan, La Presse newspaper reported on Friday.
Christine St-Pierre, a veteran Ottawa correspondent for French-language public broadcaster Radio-Canada, wrote an open letter to Canada’s 2,300 troops telling them to ignore mounting criticism of the mission.
Five Canadian soldiers were killed last weekend, prompting ever louder calls for Ottawa to review the mission. One opposition party wants the troops to come back next February, two years ahead of schedule.
“We owe you all our respect and our unfailing support … dear soldiers, your tears are not in vain, your tears are brave,” St-Pierre wrote in the letter, which La Presse published on Thursday.
Radio-Canada suspended her for breaching internal rules that stipulate employees are not allowed to express their opinions on controversial issues, La Presse said. No one at Radio-Canada was immediately available for comment.

Because around these parts, public broadcasters don’t express opinions – they shape them!
Honest Reporting has questions for the CBC and reporter Nahlah Ayed.

Will be filling in for Mike Duffy, Sept. 18-22nd.
770 CHQR. (Sorry, typo fixed)

Is upholding a British court publication ban;

The New York Times said on Tuesday it had blocked British Internet readers from seeing a story detailing elements of the investigation into a suspected plot to blow up airliners between Britain and the United States.
The story was published in Monday’s paper. Under British laws, courts will punish media organizations that publish material that judges feel may influence jurors and prevent suspects receiving a fair trial.
“There has not been a prosecution for contempt over anybody publishing outside this jurisdiction (Britain), but logically there is no reason why there should not be,” said Caroline Kean, partner at UK media law firm Wiggin.
While restricting what British media can report has been effective in the past, the Internet has made it far harder to stop information published by foreign outlets, which may breach Britain’s laws, from being seen by UK readers.

Because there’s no higher responsibility for today’s American journalism than that of ensuring a foreign accused terrorist gets a fair trial…. except for ensuring they first get a fair warning.

What Rumsfeld said;

I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.
Today, another enemy — a different kind of enemy — has also made clear its intentions — in places like New York, Washington, D.C., Bali, London, Madrid, and Moscow. But it is apparent that many have still not learned history’s lessons.
We need to face the following questions:
* With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
* Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
* Can we truly afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply “law enforcement” problems, rather than fundamentally different threats, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
* And can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America — not the enemy — is the real source of the world’s trouble?
These are central questions of our time. And we must face them.

And what the Associated Press says Rumsfeld said.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease “a new type of fascism.”

Much more at the link.
Because the report originates with AP, it will quickly be disseminated widely and without question by any number of news “sources”. For his part, Donald Rumsfeld might as well have recited nursery rhymes, for all the resemblance the AP account bears to the original.
Just another day at the news bureau.
My dear friends in media, remind we consumers again why we should trust anything you report?
Flashback – CNN manipulates Condi Rice’s testimony before the 911 Commission through undisclosed editing.
h/t

The Katie Couric Diet®
Update – CBS confesses

A fauxtography update – Powerline looks at the photos of the alleged Israeli strike on a Reuters news van.
And at LGF;

The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos.
Is someone getting a little too close to the truth?

That someone is Zombietime.
Related discussion at Michelle Malkin.
Don’t miss Mary Katharine Ham in Townhall, either;

The mainstream media’s response to the allegations from blogs has been more along the lines of Greg Mitchell’s, editor of Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine whose mission it is to cover “all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.”
Mitchell’s response to accusations from bloggers—instead of answering the charges and refuting evidence—was to get very defensive, claim that “rightwing bloggers” were only attempting to smear photojournalists as a group, and then proceed to smear rightwing bloggers as a group for daring to point out the dishonesty of some photojournalists, and raise questions about how business is conducted in the Middle East.
[…]
Instead of addressing concerns and refuting evidence, Mitchell calls bloggers a bunch of Grassy Knoll-ers intent on discrediting “the media as a whole.” This is not the way to win trust with your audience.
Mitchell then went on to discredit himself within the space of just a couple hours.
On Friday, the Confederate Yankee blog brought attention to a column Mitchell had written in 2003, in which he confessed to making up news as a young reporter. He had been sent out to do a story on Niagara Falls, and found himself unable to talk to tourists to get quotes. So, he sat on a bench and made the quotes up. He confessed his journalistic sin in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Many other blogs picked up on the 2003 column, suggesting that Mitchell might be sympathetic to faked news because he himself had been a faker.
Several hours after Confederate Yankee’s post went up, that blogger noticed the text of the 2003 article had been changed.

Lies in the ability of the reporter to push an unverifiable “quote” and ignore the actual data.
The New York Times is at it again.
Update Kevin Jaeger (of the much- missed Trudeaupia) in the comments;

And note how after several years of having nothing whatsoever constructive to say about the topic of either terrorism or Iraq Pauls Wells has started mocking Steyn’s columns (see here🙂
Of course, the mocking is based on the massive strength of the very anonymous quote you pointed out.

Which is why it’s so often suggested that the time has come to demand the same professional qualifications of foreign policy pundits and journalists that are expected of say – sports reporters.

On last night’s CBC National, host Diana Swain offered the broadcaster’s “regret” for the Stephen Harper hit piece by Christina Lawand that was exposed by Stephen Taylor.
Stephen has the video.
Nice work!
The CBC Ombudsman is blunt in his criticism. (pdf)

So, the reporter had available a question and answer directly on the subject of the demonstrators but chose a “clip” from a different question to follow the set-up of the demonstrators. I would suggest that it’s just not a “structural” problem, but a misleading use of editing. Very simply, that wasn’t the question he was asked and answered. And when asked directly about the protestors, he gave a more nunaced answer that The National did not broadcast.

Background.

This is pretty funny.

(screenshot courtesy reader Steve J.)