UPDATE – CTV red-faced over off-air comments of Paula Todd

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CTV Paula Todd Thinks Gun Owners Are FREAKISH: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U69ABffO-Y)

Update there’s a link to the pulled video here
and at No Libs (where the segment is 8 minutes long).
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Three short videos.
The first and longest is an interview with former Virginia Tech student and gun collector, Wayne Chiang by Paula Todd of CTV. Note the still photos shown of him. They’ll be back.

After the interview concludes, these off air comments were captured;
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Here comes the best part. Play close attention to the photos as they flash by the screen. Where have you seenthose before?

Chiang;

Alright, I must be falling off my rocker, but this is absolutely unbelievable. To be misidentified once as a homicidal shooter was hell. To be labeled again within three days? That is UNACCEPTABLE. CTV will have you to believe that Asians with guns ALL LOOK SAME. You can clearly see my picture being identified as the shooter TWICE @ 1:13 and 1:34. No apology or notice of clarification has been issued by this network.
As evidenced by my previous interview, I think we know the stance on firearms by this network. So which is it? Is this them filling the air with more “terrifying images”? Or do they think that Asians ALL LOOK SAME? Either way, I don’t think I’ll like the answer.

The Jewish state fought a Six Day War;

The source for all of the following is a 1967 issue of Life Magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. Instead, I’ve cherry-picked those articles that resonate most strongly insofar as they contrast with today’s view of Israel and her role in the Middle East. Unlike today’s media, both at home and abroad, the Life editors admired Israel tremendously for standing up to the overwhelming odds the Arab nations presented, and triumphing. The very first story identifies Israel as a beleaguered haven for refugees, surrounded by an ocean of hostile Arab nations.
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After admiringly describing the Israelis’ offensive strike against the Arab air-forces, which gave Israel the decisive advantage in the War, Life addresses Israel’s first incursion into Gaza. I’m sure you’ll appreciate how the Gaza area is depicted:
“Minutes after the first air strike, a full division of Israeli armor and mechanized infantry . . . was slashing into the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip. A tiny wasteland, the strip had been given up by Israel in the 1956 settlement and was now a festering splinter — the barren harbor for 315,000 refugees bent on returning to their Palestinian homes and the base for Arab saboteurs.”
[…]
With the elan and precision of a practiced drill team, Israel’s largely civilian army — 71,000 regulars and 205,000 reservists — began its swift mobilization to face, if necessary, 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. As Premier Levi Eshkol was to put it, “The Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive…. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people.
Again, can you imagine a modern publication pointing out the vast disparity in landmass and population between Israel and the Arabs, or even acknowledging in the opening paragraph of any article that Israel has a right to exist?

No, I can’t actually. I wonder why that is?

Politics Watch

The head of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News faced questioning from Conservative MPs on Parliament Hill Tuesday about what they called a “doctored photo” that appeared in April on CBC’s news website.

The public broadcaster’s news web site carried an altered stock photo of the Toronto skyline that was noticeably darkened and made the smog and atmospheric haze appear much worse than in the original photo.
The altered picture of the skyline accompanied a story about the Kyoto accord and was first noticed by a Canadian conservative blogger.
During a meeting at the Commons heritage committee, Conservative MP Chris Warkentin accused the CBC of publishing a “doctored photo” that misled the public.
The CBC official was appearing before the committee as part of its study of the role of the public broadcaster in the 21st century.
“It was a complete misrepresentation,” he said. “It speaks to the sensitivity that you have to engage in at CBC. Of course it wasn’t intended, you ensure us, to mislead Canadians but in fact it did mislead people because it was there to support an opinion that was being brought forward with the article that it was published along with.”
Tony Burman, editor in chief of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld, CBC Radio and Television, said the use of the darker photo of the Toronto skyline was the result of a “process error” and not indicative of any editorial bias at CBC.
“What happened then is that a photo was retouched,” he said. “It wasn’t retouched for use on air . . . It got misfiled . . . It was inadvertently pulled out and used.”
“It was a very subtle difference. In fact it looked very similar. We did check it. It was immediately pulled when we were aware of it. It was an inadvertent error.”

Of course it was. “Inadvertent error” is the usual manner in which an original stock photo is first cropped, run through a “warming filter” to achieve the desired tone, saved with a new file name, and then uploaded to the CBC web server, before being randomly selected to illustrate a “news” item featuring a report on the economic impact of meeting the Kyoto protocols.
Someone’s finger slipped.

The original.

An unenhanced photo of the same site in July of 2005
Previous:
Hues of the News (1)
Hues of the News (2)

Joel Johannesen;

This afternoon on the CBC Newsworld (channel 390 on my dial, with other CBC channels taking many of the rest of them), the so-called “news” anchor Sarika Sehgal (think of a George Stroumboulopoulos but of an alternate gender choice) interviewed perpetually state-employed CBC show host and leftist agitator Avi Lewis.
For reference, Avi Lewis is the son of the image former you’ve got to be kidding party’s Stephen Lewis, who sounds very much like a communist to me. Stephen Lewis is the son of Federal NDP Leader David Lewis, who similarly sounds very much like a communist to me. Stephen Lewis is married to Michele Landsberg, a feminist activist and former writer for the leftist Toronto Star, which is perhaps the most left-wing mainstream newspaper in North America, and the liberals’ Globe and Mail. She sounds very much like a communist to me. Not to be outdone, young Avi Lewis is married to far-left-wing feminist activist and Bush-hater Naomi Klein, daughter of an American draft dodger; and her brother is a director of the far left-wing Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (the “alternative” they speak of being global socialism and an end to capitalism as we know it, which sounds very much like communism to me). Naomi Klein was also a Toronto Star writer. She sounds very much like a communist to me.

That’s just the warm up.
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