[oclug] OT: Harper is my enemy, but I despise falsehood in the media

[Oren Mazor]

The media is the detective, judge, jury, and executioner. we've known
that all along.

Sad that the best source of news these days is the discussion forums
on fark/digg.

On 8/17/06, Brad Barnett <lists at l8r.net> wrote:
>
> I rarely *start* political posts, although many of mine have morphed into
> ones.  However, the recent fever that the media has placed on the absence
> of Harper at the AIDs conference does nothing but piss me off.
>
> Certainly, it angers me more to defend someone I loath.  However, our HEAD
> OF STATE, the Governor General was at the conference as well as the health
> minister... and many other Canadian figures.
>
> There is just so much that the media can attack about Harper's policies,
> but this isn't one of them.  As far as I know, he is up North in an
> attempt to protect our sovereignty, and our head of state and health
> minister was at the conference.
>
> This is *normal*.  We did the same conference a *greater* honour by having
> our head of state attend.
>
> Hello?  Wake up!
>
> Further, I see Gilles Duceppe defending himself from the Israeli
> Ambassador, for attending a peace rally where uninvited Hezbollah
> supporters showed up.  The Israeli Ambassador is completely off base and
> shooting at anything he can see out there these days.  I've seen articles
> in papers, and other annoyances that lead me to believe he isn't even
> paying attention to what people are actually *saying* and *doing*, but
> instead reading slanted newspaper articles to make his decision.
>
> I despise Duceppe and all he stands for, but HE DID NOTHING WRONG.  THIS
> WAS A PEACE MARCH.
>
> Again, there is so much the media could do to openly, honestly, and
> vibrantly condemn both of these men.  Instead, they leap to cheap shots
> and sensationalism left, right and centre.  The media needs reform.
>
> Big time.
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