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Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says (www.cbc.ca)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press freedom event in Paris Sunday that one of the bulwarks protecting democratic governments from being undermined is also an institution under stress -- a free-thinking, robust media. From a report: "If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to have an informed populace, ready to make judicious decisions about who to grant power to and when to take it away," Trudeau said. "When citizens cannot have rigorous analysis of the exercise of the power that is in their name and they have granted, the rest of the foundation of our democracies start to erode at the same time as cynicism arises." The press freedom advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders has developed a six-page international declaration on information and democracy to establish basic principles for the "common good of mankind." The organization hosted a small event on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum late Sunday afternoon where five presidents and prime ministers, including Trudeau, offered endorsements for this declaration. The Paris Peace Forum, intended to be an annual gathering of political, business and civil society leaders to explore peaceful solutions to the world's problems, was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron to coincide with this weekend's events marking the centenary of the armistice agreement that ended the First World War.
Trudeau, addressing the audience at the press freedom event without a prepared text, also talked about the risk if too many citizens become too cynical about public institutions. "Attacks on the media are not just about getting your preferred political candidate elected," he said. "They're about increasing the level of cynicism that citizens have toward all authorities, toward all of the institutions that are there to protect us as citizens." Citizens are feeling "very real anxiety," Trudeau said, because their jobs are transforming as globalization increases competition around the world. When that anxiety is exacerbated, it undermines trust in institutions and increases cynicism. "One of the bulwarks against that, and one of the institutions that is most under stress right now, is a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media," the prime minister said.
Trudeau, addressing the audience at the press freedom event without a prepared text, also talked about the risk if too many citizens become too cynical about public institutions. "Attacks on the media are not just about getting your preferred political candidate elected," he said. "They're about increasing the level of cynicism that citizens have toward all authorities, toward all of the institutions that are there to protect us as citizens." Citizens are feeling "very real anxiety," Trudeau said, because their jobs are transforming as globalization increases competition around the world. When that anxiety is exacerbated, it undermines trust in institutions and increases cynicism. "One of the bulwarks against that, and one of the institutions that is most under stress right now, is a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media," the prime minister said.
And Trudeau is a whiny and inadequate leader who is a threat to all of Canadian society because of his inability to make proper decisions or lead the country in any positive direction so I guess we're even then.
If you're not believable, the solution to people not believing you is to look inward. Selfish attacks on the media woulnd't be so effective if there weren't so much to attack. Report the facts, and make a real effort to discover the facts first, that's all it takes.
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People have a low opinion of them because of the way so many of them have repeatedly been shown to behave when they're held accountable.
"One of the bulwarks against that, and one of the institutions that is most under stress right now, is a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media," the prime minister said.
Interesting how he left out "honest," yet threw in "respected" like it's some obligation on the public.
Yeah, right... Don't press doing any of that lately.
Nobody gives a fuck about the media except leftist cunts who feel the need to parse information before it gets to the people. Fuck them and fuck that leftist cunt Trudeau.
Joe Trudeau is a smart cookie.
One problem here is that governments in general cannot be trusted. Their own actions are slowly starting to backfire.
Governments mostly care about bookkeeping and economic growth. They - mine included - don't give a d*mn about the the civilian. Instead of the gov serving the public, we only appear to exist to serve the nation and enrich the few % wealthy.
It has little to nothing to do with internet (as Tim Berners-Lee suggest) itself, it has little but maybe something to do with information and disinformation but any mass media is guilty of that, it's not limited to internet. It has directly to do with the attitude and the actions of governments and officials who treat people as crap. It's no wonder that people get upset.
Add in some propaganda machine's, ranging from populists to anti-populists, and more and more people realizing this is all propaganda. Why is it so hard to deal with fake news? Because the line between fake news and propaganda is blurring. And the civilian? Can choose between getting brainwashed or become cynical.
The future comes by either evolution or revolution. If gov's actually would start listening and acting in favor of their on population. But i doubt they do, as most gov's are steered by a few multinationals and other wealthy influences than can afford dozens of lobbyists. The independent parliamentarian is something from last century.
This is the same Trudeau that invites Islamic militants into his country? This is the same media that propagates hoax attacks against Muslims to garner sympathy?
No trust in institutions and the media? I wonder why?
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When the many failures of his administration start to catch up to him and the media selects a new darling to coddle and casts him aside.
There is a reason the media is one of the least respected institutions. Respect has to be earned, and they just are not putting in the work to earn it.
Media has been devolving into internet clickbait for some time. There is little trust left.
It's not an "attack" if it's justified.
They keep making up facts and even go so far as to deny that Trump scored 17 hole-in-ones during his first ever game of golf, chopped down the largest tree in the world with a single axe swing, and has women swooning all over him. What a champion!
#buildTheWall #siegHeil
The media have long since ceased to be really objective. They're still very good at pretending that they're there to keep those in power honest. But in reality, now they're just stooges and collaborators.
So if this guy, very much in power, chooses to stand up for the media, it's because they've been so useful to him keeping him in power, diseminating things he wanted diseminated and ignoring things he didn't want widely discussed. They scratched his back, now he's scratching theirs.
Of course he manages to couch it in thoroughly wholesome wordings, but I only wish they were true. I know for a fact they are not. And that's not even factoring in that he's a politician and therefore an inveterate liar by definition.
A phoney.
Unfortunately, the media he defends are purveyors of the godless, communist, terrorist religion of political correctness who only want to see advertising and propaganda on the web, all else banned.
The media is a threat to democracy just as much. A few people pulling the strings of many editors is far more dangerous than lashing out, tantrum style, about a general bias. The bias itself is potentially far more harmful, especially when the bias exists for profit.
The following overview says where France stands with respect to upload filters and link tax. Yes, France is among the worst in Europe. The French attack the press with full force.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Fucking mainstream media is an attack on democracy, freedom of speech and expression Damn lying scum
There is a difference between saying that x and y statements are inaccurate (and here is evidence that they are inaccurate) or relevant information z has been left out which gives an unbalanced impression and saying [media organisation] is an enemy of the people/country/whatever.
The former is valid criticism which gives the media organisation the chance to defend their assertions and editorial choices or correct the record and generally doesn't put anything beyond reputations at risk. The latter is straight out of the playbook of personality cults and tinpot despots. Rather than being an attempt to bring the facts to the fore, it is a vulgar use of raw power to attempt to crush perceived opponents. As it is leveraged power rather than facts in dispute it is very difficult to defend against and does put people in real danger - as we have seen very real examples of. Notable users of this tactic to to destroy opposition include Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Nazis Rather than encouraging a robust public debate it holds a gun to the head of any free speech that does not conform to the views of power.
Trial by facts and evidence should what the media has to deal with. Anything beyond that is straying into very dicey territory.
In America there is no such luck.
Most of the American media side with the far-left, and the small remainder, with the far-right.
That leaves the Americans --- with nothing.
Every single day we either get bombarded with the "TRUMP IS A BASTARD" message or the "TRUMP IS OUR SAVIOR" message.
There is no longer a discussion --- it's a SHOUTING MATCH with diatribes thrown everywhere, every. single. day.
Media with no accountability is an even bigger thread IMO.
Better read your Constitution again. No-one is entitled to a platform.
If Trudeau is suggesting that members of the media should not be physically harassed, threatened or subject to violence, then yes, attacks on the media are wrong.
If, however, Trudeau takes the SJW definition of attack, which entails scrutiny, criticism, denial of credentials for misbehavior, then no, he is wrong.
It's time to put away the romantic notion of the media as tireless devotees of Woodward and Bernstein. The media is in reality partisan, agenda-driven, gossip-mongers. Their organs are primarily means of delivering advertising and revenue. The Fourth Estate is a political corporate beast
Some media with large audience are still forbidden in Palais de l'Elysée (= the French WhiteHouse) because they're linked with propaganda.
Of course there's ZERO proof of this.
Try shutting off the tv for a start.
The biggest threat to democracy is the media and the government colluding together. Having them be enemies is better for the people because the media might actually expose the corruption and incompetence of the government. When the government and the media get along, you know they are both scratching each other's backs. Look at how the press was treated back in the early days of the United States by officials and how the press treated the officials... Heck, fringe whatever wing rags talking shit about the king were the spark that started the Revolutionary War.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
That's American politics and culture in a nutshell, though.
It's all a popularity match.
There is NO discussion, it's merely who has the biggest charisma that wins at anything. They could be the scummiest fuckers around, even literally Hitler, and a nice speech would get them elected because Americans are dumbfucks that don't care about actual policy, only "us vs them" politics.
This is why American politics is filled with 2 extremes, it is designed that way from the rotten core.
You pretty much never see the same extent anywhere else in the world, besides countries ruined by American influence in recent decades.
There is a difference between governments and criminal gangs attacking and threatening journalists, and people criticizing how a particular journalist behaves or the inherent bias in a news organization. Conflating the two is disingenuous, but Trudeau goes even further. He equates criticism of journalism as eroding trust in public institutions. So politician is sad that the public is calling out public institutions and the press for their venality?
this commentary cuts both ways. the right complaining about left wing media and the left complaining about fox news. everyone should be free to complain about any media or viewpoint they wish. news channels quit being news long ago. now they are just points of opinion.
You pretty much never see the same extent anywhere else in the world, besides countries ruined by American influence in recent decades.
Many European countries are going down the same road. The center is dying. Everything gets more radicalized, no-compromise, "you're 100% with us or literally Hitler" bullshit.
I mean you could argue that this is "American influence" because our media is imitating the US media, i.e. they're becoming more radical themselves and driving a wedge between the populace.
"If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to have an informed populace, ready to make judicious decisions about who to grant power to and when to take it away," Trudeau said."
Well, it's functioned for 242 years w/o an educated populace, why start now? (awaiting pendants who will inform us all that we don't live in a democracy).
Just another day in Paradise
Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychiatry with very sane lectures and attitudes about SJW speech, evaluated Justin Trudeau after a student's questions at the University of Oxford. See https://www.washingtontimes.co... . One problem is that Justin Trudeau is naive about the dangers of the *not* free press he is enforcing for his own favorite political hobby horses. So Trudeau is not to be trusted about freedom of the press: he doesn't believe in it when it questions, for example, the pay gap for women (which really does exist, but is only about 4%, not the 78% some feminists keep citing) or the idea that there is no such as gender (which certainly does exist, especially for the trans-gender people who *change* theirs). That's a blatant example, but he's encouraging similar SJW foolishness in education, in children's programs, and in tax law.
other country leaders are pissed that the US is reducing their handouts to them and so are attacking trump from all angles. Now if Trump would stand up to its military arm known as the israeli occupation and point out that more have died in wars other than jews than the jews claim of jews and tell them to get the fu& over it, and reduce the spreading of US produced arms around the world we can really boost the US economy and other economies too. There is also this matter of the BDS where I do not approve of my taxes being used to counter it and proper business of consumer choice. In fact, if we really want to stop the massive expense and waste of warmongering, give the people of the population voice in the world direction and here is how http://3seas.org/Voice_of_Glob... Its really about doing proper business and not political distraction entertainment & warmongering.
On another Note: Macron wants to build up his military and that is nationalism or is that patriotism. maybe its all just political meaningless rhetoric
I can see why gratuitous attacks on journalists can be dangerous but sadly at this point I have to assume, based on statistical evidence, that anyone presenting themselves as a journalist is nothing of the sort, until there's proof to the contrary. Everything seems to be about feelings and gut reactions, which has its place but cannot replace facts and critical thinking.
"If you can't squash them, square them and if you can't square them, squash them."
-- Harold Wilson on 'The Media'.
But he's easy on the eyes, right ladies?
The attacks on the media are just part of a wider attack on education, from people who don't handle complexity well.
The big media is suffering from upstarts coming from the internet. To compete they have become them. The result is click bait articles and extremist journalism. All the while the enormous, multi-billion dollar media industry tries to paint itself as some form of victim? Right.
Since when is the media the Authorities? Is he saying that Canadian media is state controlled?
WTF happened to Macleans? I subscribed for years but let it lapse this year because they've gone digital only(?) and traded content for Pharmaceutical ads. The dead tree format was what I appreciated because that's what made it special. There's 1000 links I hit every day - none of them memorable. But my wife and I would often discuss the issues of the day that were brought up in Macleans.
RIP Macleans. I miss you.
and, at least in the US, few have any sympathy for them. They like to play the victim card over how terrible they're treated but, the reality is, they have few to blame other than themselves.
The news / media have long since ceased being a source of reliable / unbiased information and have, instead, turned into political attack dogs of whatever party they are affiliated with. As a result, I don't even bother to watch, listen or read anything other than the weather from any of our usual news sources. It's simply a waste of my time.
I would agree with Trudeau in that the news / media -should- be free from attacks and criticism, but only if news / media return to their principles and start acting as the professionals they are -supposed- to be. Not the three ring circus they have become.
Lose the bias, sensationalism, personal agendas and personal attacks against political parties and / or people they dislike and just report the damn news.
Returning to their professional roots will go a long way in re-establishing some credibility as journalists and "news" as a whole.
If not . . . . . well. . . . when you engage in mud-slinging, you're bound to get just as dirty.
Don't whine about it when no one hands you a towel.
Mainstream journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
Trudeau is right. The media must be free. We must end Canada's state media mouthpiece IMMEDIATELY! This is a call to action for you, Justin Trudeau!
From the guy who NEVER answers a single question.
Attacks on the media are always justified, if the media is not doing its job of properly informing the populace. A one sided media is the enemy of democracy by not properly disseminating information.
As he said. An uninformed populace...
"... if they feel that the media deserves it"
No. You can't just "feel" that they deserve criticism, you have to THINK that they deserve it, and based on factual evidence. Feelings aren't good enough; you need facts. Too many people today go about their lives just feeling and wishing, instead of thinking critically and making evidence-based decisions.
Maybe that is what you meant to say.
Should be: Media's Attacks Are a Threat To Democracy
"a free-thinking, independent, rigorous, robust, respected media"
But what we have in Canada is a government funded propaganda outlet, and ludicrous protectionism.
This man has no business being in any kind of freedom of the press event. This man who has shut down media in Canada for being against the government. He's passed laws which gives the government carte blanche to jail people for being the wrong kind of media, without legal representation in rotating-door permanent prison sentence without access to the red cross. His laws interfere with private conversation on newsworthy topics by making saying certain things, and has made studying certain areas also illegal. This is the same man who has presided over a government that has used fake news, propaganda in order to limit the ability of our media to make sense of the world, and who wants to engage in a war on math to make sure we can't even *hide* our news gathering, and news dissemination activities from the government. And don't get me started about the state run CBC and how badly they fail us.
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The "media" shouldn't be thinking at all, just reporting facts with absolutely no opinion. Bias is unfortunately undeniable.
....is anything he does NOT strident virtue-signaling?
I'd submit that the general public are smarter than politicians give them credit for. As news media has devolved into echo-chambers of obvious bias & winner-picking, with less and less actual simple reportage and more of a piranha-like frenzy to chase after whatever just popped up on twitter, people have naturally devalued "the media" commensurately.
-Styopa
It's the basic divide and conquer method. People fight against themselves instead of grouping together. And while they're busy fighting against each other they don't fight the government.
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The problem is that the main stream media is not doing its job. Journalists are supposed to report facts and not have an agenda. If they did this, there would not be a low opinion of journalism today. The problem stems from the bald fact that media is ruled by people with left leaning ideology. At some point, so called journalists had decided to shape the story to a narrative, instead of reporting facts and allowing the reader to shape the narrative.
This is evident in the number of major media figures who had to resign for being publicly caught manufacturing stories. For example, I am looking at you Dan Rather. He is not alone.
As the internet developed, it was no longer possible for a few gate keepers to spin the story so people only see convenient facts. Sadly, the response of the main stream media has not been to self correct. Instead of eliminating institutional bias and increasing diversity of thought in news selectors, the modern journalist has doubled down. They simply call anyone who disagrees with their narrow prism of events as "Fake news." Judging by these forums, that has been, tragically for civilization, effective.
So, the assault on democracy is not people pointing out that journalists are not doing their job. It is coming from journalists who say they are questing for the truth, doing the opposite, and eroding belief of all but the most partisan.
Ps. Sorry to be an AC. I forgot my password, and I am at work.
It's Justin Trudeau.
Does anyone seriously believe he wants to see mainstream journalists do a rigorous and robust analysis of (say) the "wage gap," instead of simply parroting the establishment narrative like they always do?
happens to be https://globalnews.ca/news/4654181/pride-flag-lgbtq-swastikas-comparison-apology-alberta/
We hear them all the time, it's always the same. It's a right-wing rag with a low ethical bar.
Unless he's defending Julian Assange and calling out the United States for silencing a journalist, it's all propaganda....
I am old enough to remember when media outlets in the US had to provide equal time to those who disagreed with their opinions. Now that that is gone, they report opinion as fact, don't tell you the facts that would cause you to form an opinion different than the one they want to issue to you, repeat and stress the facts that support their opinion even if minor or irrelevant, use every logical fallacy to enrage you or bring you to their position.
Even people who lean left see that "news" is mostly opinion and want ALL of the facts and to form their own opinions. No wonder the media gets no respect. They haven't earned it since McNeil Lehrer Report.
The media with their slanted coverage on all things have destroyed all trust. The media has not been very honest or even handed in recent years. The media pushing their agenda and attacking individuals for dissenting views does not help. A bit of honest reporting would help. How about telling us which political contributor is going to get rich from a particular government funded activity? Or how about highlighting the ever constant pay for play (Boeing wants to sell jets to Russia, Boeing makes a donation to the Clinton foundation and within two weeks Boeing gets a export license from the Clinton State Department)
[Goes back to watching RT and Al Jazeera]
Have gnu, will travel.
Its keyfabe all the way down.
He wasn't 'against stopping all arms sales' because he supports the Saudi regime. He was against burdening tax payers with the debt that would cause, as am I.
You are spewing more Fake News to fit your "whatabout" "I'm confused" "but, but but..." narrative.
You may come out of journalism school all bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to take on the world, but I bet it doesn't last long. The fact is, the "information age" changed the profession of journalism by requiring fewer journalists. Also, while large newspapers were expected to keep "real" journalists on staff, readership of newspapers has fallen, and they've had to move to content online, and readers won't pay for online content (in general). That means media companies are less dependent on subscriptions and more dependent on ad revenue (and thus clicks). So if you're a new journalism graduate, the metric your employers are looking at isn't Pulitzer prize winning prose, it's how many clicks you bring to the table. Doesn't matter if you're a great journalist, you'll lose that position to a person willing to put anything sleazy in a headline.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Those lyin' sons-of-bitches deserve to be raked over the coals ad infinitum. Fuck 'em, & to hell with those old hags & their exposed wrinkly ol' cleavages, yuck.
While that may be true in France in the US this would be like saying the 9 or so corporations that own all media outlets are the democracy.
Trump attacks the Constitution, not defend it, like he's supposed to. He's attacked the 1st Amendment since before the election, and more lately he's attacked the 14th Amendment. He clearly and objectively doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution at all, it's just 'in the way' of being the authoritarian dictator that he wants to be.
But burdening taxpayers by importing proven violent refugees is acceptable.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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Because we should believe the conservstive incel....uh huh
> What do you think rigorous and robust refer to? Rigorous examination of the facts and a robust editorial process that includes corrections.
In name only. Over and over, we see headlines not backed by their own articles and corrections relegated to the darkest corners of the sites, long after they're irrelevant.
Take Kavanaugh, we'll never see the same breathless coverage of how two of the accusers admitted the made the story up, or how Ford's lawyer is in hot water for never informing her of what everyone else knew--that they would've allowed her to be interviewed privately since she went up there to tell them how painful it was for this to be public. And they certainly won't mention that the grocery store that she made central to her story in front of Congress was built in 1986, 4 years after the alleged attack. So she couldn't possibly have seen the friend working there and Kavanaugh was no longer there at all, so there's no possible timeline where the story hangs together. And, unlike her, he has calendars detailing the entire decade, so he knows where he was and what he was doing when she had such a terrible time even figuring out what year it allegedly happened.
The media can whine all it wants. It exists to manipulate us at this point, not to inform us. I wonder if it ever truly did wish to inform us. The people who sing its virtues merely like the way the manipulation is going.
I'll evaluate the facts on my own. I don't need someone with a journalism degree to do that for me. Anyone who does is beneath contempt, having too little intelligence to be worth talking to.
that maybe they wouldn't be attacked so much if they were to provide a fair and honest reporting on the issues that covers the whole story, not just the parts that they want to sell. I keep reading obviously one sided articles from Canadian news sources that are essentially opinion or propaganda pieces. This is obvious to anyone who isnt directly involved in the echo chamber.
I bet if you were to ask him who he thinks are the reputable media who deserve to be attacked less, he would have a very specific list that would be mostly partisan and part of the echo chamber that he lives in. he only cares about the democracy that elects his government, he doesn't care about all Canadians, just take a look at how he treats his opposition in Parliament.
It also doesn't help when we have a small handful of people who control all of the companies who produce Canadian media.
https://www.adfontesmedia.com/... The primary affect of attacking media institutions is to cultivate the idea that all media is "fake" or "biased" and that none can be "trusted". The distortion is dangerous because it removes a vital check on government power and without it, allows corruption. Moreover, this distortion allows citizens to confirm their own bias by consuming the news that fits their worldview while branding contrary news as "fake". This is not true. Not all news is biased, fake, or untrustworthy. Stop repeating this. This is exactly what politicians want you to believe and they are succeeding when you go around spewing this nonsense. Get this "idea" out of your head. It's not true and it is the root cause of atrocities throughout history.
Attacks on true independent media are welcomed by the z-ionist head of Canada, who has celebrated (literally) every satanic j-ish crime against Humanity in Gaza. What Blair's children cry about is independent Human voices that powerfully contradict their media PR goons.
Sometimes events happen that should open they eyes of every low beta and gamma (like those of you here that think slashdot has 'value' and is an 'honest' broker). All of the j-ish controlled mainstream media lying about WMDs in order to sell I-sreal's wars against SECULAR 'muslim' nations was the biggest in our lifetime.
The West's use of weaponised islamist terror in Syria was the latest- and the West's support of I-srael's twin, Sauid Arabia, after the demonic murder of a Saudi journalist (who himself had been a satanic supporter of ISIS) yet another.
Dumb dumbs are meant to celebrate the PUSH mainstream media, and never be allowed to indulge in PULL journalism, where the citizen actively seeks out the truth. Slashdot is a classic PUSH outlet, pre-censoring by the active choice of promoted material (slashdot has one third plus overtly political stories, with none of them ever critical of Saudi Arabia or I-srael, but frequent attacks on I-srael's 'enemies').
You back or trust the mainstream media- you are the direct supporters of the warmongers, and are directly responsible for all the greater evils that plague Humanity.
I dont know a lot of people who respect any news organization as most of it has turned away from proper news reporting of the old days into a constant barrage of opinion pieces with very little fact-checking.
You cant find an honest un-biased news org on the major networks anymore. Even CBC has gone down the crapper.
I'm not sure who's to blame or how we could even fix this, but painting the media as the victim here is dishonest. They did this to themselves. They are no more the victim than the big banks were during the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
People don't trust or respect the mainstream media because they are just opinionated editorialized bullshit made up for ratings to stoke our innermost fears and desires. They stopped being a source of actual news a very long time ago.
The problem is it's not news, it's opinion and public manipulation.
-why not end globalization? That's a simple premise, right? If a chemical causes cancer, we stop using it. If something harms the environment, we seek to limit its use.
But globalization is causing problems. Trudeau's and other politicians' responses is to shrug their shoulders and say "too bad".
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ABC news chief "unbiased" political discussion guy George Stephanopoulos was a rabid Clinton supporter who was a Bill & Hillary Clinton employee.
ABC News Reporter Gloria Riviera is married to ex-Obama employee Jim Sciutto.
ABC News Reporter Claire Shipman is the wife of Obama's White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (did ABC tell you that?)
ABC News Reporter (also at Univision) Matthew Jaffe is married to Obama's Deputy Press Secretary Katie Hogan (did ABC and Univision tell you that?)
ABC News Executive Producer (2008-2011) Ian Cameron was married to Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice (did ABC tell you that during the Obama years?)
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama's Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood (did ABC tell you that?)
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes (did CBS tell you that?)
CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo is the brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat).
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was press secretary for congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (Democrat) and also worked for Handgun Control, Inc.
CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto served in the Obama White House.
CNN Vice President (also Washington Deputy Bureau Chief) Virginia Moseley is married to Hillary Clinton's Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
NBC news "unbiased" political talking head Chris Matthews worked for both President Jimmy Carter (Democrat) and Tip O'Neill (Democrat House Speaker).
NBC News Senior Political Editor Mark Murray is married to Sasha Johnson, an Obama administration employee
NBC news "unbiased" political talking head Chuck Todd worked for Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat) and his wife, Kristian Denny Todd, is a Democrat activist.
PBS guy Bill Moyers was the White House Press Secretary for Lyndon Johnson and helped him push the Vietnam War.
Feel free to dig some more... over 90% of the "mainstream" media in the USA are, by their own admission, either Democrats or further to the political left. Their votes and political contributions have been over 80% to Democrats for over 50 years. It is therefore no surprise that their reporting on the Trump admin is averageing over 90% negative. America's journalists were not even 90% negative on Joseph Stalin (the New York times even infamously knowingly covered-up Stalin's mass murder of tens of thousands of innocent people).
The Drudge Report only exists because Matt Drudge was sitting in a Restraunt in DC one day and overheard journalists in a nearby booth discussing NOT reporting on Monica Lewinski's blue dress and the Bill Clinton debacle (which they were clearly aware of and would certainly have reported on had it been a Republican president). Matt Drudge reported what the mainstream (aka Democrat) press was spiking.
A flipped coin would be more fair and balanced than an American "journalist".
If we could only have a Ministry Of Truth, then all would be well.
We would all believe Saddam had poison gas and nukes and all the victims of this war were justified.
That is what you and your sponsors in big money want.
Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says
I can't speak to the situation in Canada, but in the U.S. we have the situation that attacks by the liberal media on republicans in general and on Trump in particular are most assuredly a threat to democracy!
Non-liberal media typically quote a figure of about 91% negative press coverage of Trump by the liberal media. That's both extremely dangerous to democracy and irrational.
If we all took the NYT as a reference, then we would soon believe than murdering the POTUS was a "moral duty".
The mainstream media here in Germany is on many days parotting the very same message.
At least we now know how the Nazi empire worked.
Soros wants to turn Germany and all of the EU into a s-hole like Lebanon.
Lots of different religions fighting each other.
Thank god Orban kicked him out of Hungary and erected a fence against the Mohammedist invasion Soros, the Googlers and Merkel facilitated !
Germany will soon be Allahmania, but for Hungary, Poland and Russia there still is some hope.
The US warmachine dropped Iraq and Syria into the gutter of civil war for no good reason at all.
And the media whores facilitated all of it with their sweetened lies of why these wars are a necessity. Remember how evil Assad was and how "moderate terrorists", funded by the bone-saw-set had to overthrow the peace in Syria. Remeber how YOU fell for these siren songs ?
The world is rotten, but Karma will catch up with the perps.
No less than the NYT muses about killing Trump, the elected president.
That is how much of a mafia org the leading newspapers have become.
Media should be able to take it if they're going to dish it out lies and all. That goes for Fox News, MSNBC, et al. They don't need to be coddled!
First, they came for the journalists.
We don't know what happened after that.
Verbal attacks against the media are a requirement for democracy because freedom of speech is democracy. If these "attacks" escalate into forms physical violence and physical attacks, then that is not democracy. That is tyranny.
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I can't say that I've sampled much in the way of Canadian media outlets, but in neighboring U.S.A. being "rigorous, robust and respected" has not been any kind of priority in a long while, and what sheer veil they may have propped in front of that reality for a while they let drop a couple of years ago when a big election went in an unexpected direction. All reporting outlets in the U.S.A. are now wearing their biases on their sleeves. Until media outlets can be forced to staff and promote from the "Left" and "Right" equally, then no individual outlet can be even remotely respected and the best we can do is what we're doing right now, having the two big biases battle it out with their various lies, spins and checks... I don't see how going out and telling us to blindly accept whatever we're told is supposed to be taken as a good thing, or even expected to make the person saying it come off any way other than just dumb/incompetent...
For what's it's worth - that was an awesome and succinct reason why "Fair and balanced" it total horseshit.
I have way too many family members who've fallen for the Fox News "Fair and Balanced" reporting and thinking opinion is fact.
And, I'm doing what I can to not fall into that trap. (Michael Shermer and The Skeptic Magazine is my inspiration)
Hey, ShitCone, you still pushing that Faux-"News" propaganda about media-bias and fake news? And you're seriously trying to convince me you're not a Fauxbot?!? LOLZ!!
You do realize that "fake news" is merely news that Trump doesn't like, because it reports on all the facts he wants to keep hidden from you, don't you? You do realize he is trying to create a new definition of the word "fake", don't you?
How do you cry media bias on one side, and then push all the biased propaganda of the other? Howzat workin' out for ya? Learn to think for yourself. Get your head out of Tucker Carlson's ass. I'm beginning to think you're directly responsible for his "Republican stare".
P.S. - Shitgibbon. Out.