The Current today (Friday Sept 19) was, we were told, 'all you need to know about Afghanistan'. Actually, almost the entire hour was spent explaining, first, why Canadians should not expect this to be an issue in the election, and then why Canadians needed to get with the program and support the mission. They had one short segment of a military wife explaining (in a clip, god forbid she should be allowed 'live' with such anti-CBC views) why she would probably not vote to continue 'the mission' if she ever had such a chance (quite unlikely) - and then the Current spent the final few minutes of the show with a few 'impartial analysts' explaining why the poor woman was just wrong, and it really, really, really is a good mission. You damned peasants, is that clear?!?!?!?!?!
Propaganda 'r' us. I bet there's a lot of people out there much like me, who would appreciate some politicians being placed on a hot seat, and grilled about why, since most Canadians do not want to be in Afghanistan, no politicians from the major parties seem to give a damn about what Canadians think. Oh, I guess that's out of the box thinking, in democracyland - in Canada, the politicians don't actually take orders from the people, they sell programs, and do as they please.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
...from the history ....
Friday Sept 19 - 6 am PEI national 'news' - still on the 'apology' issue - the intrepid 'reporter' goes and finds three people who think the guy should resign, and nobody from the other POV, as 'background' to their 'story' on how that darn person is not resigning, even though some higher ups at the CBC think he ought to, in their petulant childish way. Right on impartial 'journalism' - I guess I'm the only one in Canada who thinks this is idiotic. And meanwhile, we wait and wait for something on a real issue, such as the SPP/NAU, Banketeering, democracy, etc.
- 6.30 'news' - it's a PEI story that a Lib candidate is 'recycling his old campaign signs'. You bet. Sure beats talking about democracy or banking or the SPP or any real issues etc.
Thursday Sept 18 - PEI news 6:30 am - making a big issue about some guy joking about 'hopes the person who died on PEI from listeriosis was Wayne Easter' - cheap joke, common sort of thing in ANY circle normal people move in, but the CBC is going to take it seriously and make a big issue out of it. Dumbing down in action, by PC people - this sort of thing is nothing more than childish, adults understand that this sort of joke is made, and is nothing more than that, a joke. Perhaps a bit tasteless, but hardly the stuff over which normal adult people get outraged. Big momma in action. (and the 'joking' as reported on the newscast - '...this may be death by a thousand cuts - or should that be cold cuts...' - I should never think this stuff cannot get more pathetic. But on a major CBC provincial news cast? This would get laughed out of a journalism school course ..... dumbing down in action. Nonstop. And if they want to censor the politician for the tasteless joke, why do they make equally tasteless ones themselves? As always, one rule for us, another for you.
- and making a big issue of the NDP candidate who did some drugs 'live' - some people might think this a perfect opportunity to talk about how most Canadians want pot legalised, but no, the PC CBC is all holier than thou about it all. This is a real issue that needs talking about, and real issues is one place we are NOT going during this campaign, insofar as the CBC has anything to do with it all.
- Ottawa news, 8.30, story on Pettawawa, not much interest in the election at Pettawawa, but it's a way to remind people about how both the Cons and Libs have 'agreed' on the 2011 withdrawal, so we don't need to talk about this much, right? Who cares what Canadians think about this all, eh???? But we do manage to get a few comments about how that date - 'may be too soon' - we're very definitely not going to hear from the majority of Canadians who want withdrawal now, as in ASAP, or ask politicians why they don't care what Canadians think about this, but let's get this little 'support the mssion!!! story in .... that's is indoctrination at work, constant small reinforcements sneaking in under the radar, and influencing what people think ....
- lady on the current 'doing the mail', just happens to mention her new book about the very serious situation of women in Afghanistan (you wavering people, we're doing GOOD STUFF THERE!!!!]]]] - blatant, very obvious what is happening from outside the box. Virtually never do we hear anything talking about how most Canadians do not want to be there, or how we got involved very undemocratically, etc.
Wednesday Sept 17 - the current - interview with Dion, Tremonti pretty aggressive, obviously dislikes Dion (all rightwing complaining about 'lefty media' notwithstanding), but he handled himself very impressively - have to wait and see how she deals with Harper - aggressive is ok, as long as it is evenly distributed amongst all candidates ...
- always stories of interest to be told, like the one from Fredericton today about the Down syndrome political activist - again, this would be fine, if we were also getting the story of, for instance, Connie Fogal and CAP, and why they continue to spend so much time fighting when the mainstream media continues to ignore them, even though they seem to speak for so many Canadians ....
Tuesday Sept 16 - the Current - second part - another long segment on May - as somebody said, any PR is good PR, and if the objective is getting May well enough known to get that anti-Harper vote well split up among the Greens, NDP and Libs, they're doing, I would suggest, a very good job. Still haven't heard a word from anyone about SPP, or money supply, even though I have written everyone about Banketeering, it's completely ignored by all the mainstream people who remain firmly in the box comments with 'issues' and commentary etc, same old stuff, nothing important, although they all pretend, of course, to be important and serious
- the whole focus of this show is that Canadian are waaaaaay behind the Americans in using the net for politics - not a word about the role of the media in this, the role of major left wing websites in preventing organising between elections, the role of the mainstream media in marginalising any useful websites, etc. propaganda all the way. Very clever propaganda, but all designed to create the Cdn narrative
- the interviewee jesse brown complains about parties not giving Cdns the info they need - do they not see the 'irony' here???? Isn't it the MEDIA supposed to inform Canadians?!?!? Shouldn't we be talking about the media NOT doing this? Most of my comments to Cdn newspaper 'comment' boards are removed, including the CBC sites - how obvious can it be what you are doing? But that's the Canadian narrative - the media are wonderful people who give Canadians all the information they need - and apparently most Canadians believe this, and will not think about anything the media does not tell them to think about, or have no opinions not sanctioned by the media.
Monday Sept 15 - the Current giving more attention to May and the Greens - a party with no elected MPS, but not a day goes by May is not in the news, or on the radio being interviewed by someone - compare with CAP, who has had not a single word of press, although they speak for things a lot of Canadians care about, that nobody else does .... May getting attention like this would be good if the other minor parties and issues got the same sort of exposure, to let the voters know what was going on in their country. What would happen if the CBC et al gave the same attention to the SPP, or democracy and PR in Canada, or whether or not the Libs and Cons actually care about what Canadians think about the Afghan mission, and etc. Spin spin and spin - they want the vote split, so they give May attention.
Sunday Sept 14 - 09:00 Halifax national news - still at it, this is not even subtle any more, first a story from Quebec about how 'disillusioned' Bloc voters are turning to Harper, and then a quote from Harper about how all other parties have moved to the left, leaving the center for him - complete bullshit, but that is the narrative they are creating for the history books - 'centrist' Harper attracting Canadians and the loser lefties falling behind (actually, obviously, Harper is well to the right, and the NDP pretty centrist, with the Libs kind of center right leaning far right - but we are NOT going to talk about those parties being right wing, or get involved in any discussions about how the NDP actually have policies closer to what most Canadians believe in - the narrative that Canadians are being told to believe is that the Libs and Cons are centrist and represent Canadians, and the NDP are just the lefty fringe. And most Canadians are well enough trained to accept this crap without thinking about it at all, and then voting for the people who are wrecking their country rather than people who want to save it. And they are going to push May more to make sure the anti harper vote is well divided, on cross country checkup today. Apparently I am the only one in the country who has any fucking clue what is going on - how successful the indoctrination has been, and is. God give me a place to get out of this craziness!!!!!!!
Friday Sept 11 - CBC Charlottetown news - 06:30am, still slagging the Libs - the candidate 'tries' to explain the carbon tax (obviously it is 'too difficult' for people to understand, is the CBC narrative of this 'story', and 'trying' indicates that it is too difficult etc) - they get a few interviews with people who say they don't understand it, golly!! poor little simpleton citizen me!! - but none, of course, from people who say it is perfectly clear and no problem - always, always always creating the narrative - this will be in the history books, the carbon tax was too difficult to understand, etc .... then the interview with the candidate, the little CBC reporter saying over and over and over again that he doesn't understand it, cannot find anyone who understands it, 'don't you think this is a hard sell..'? etc and etc - this is way beyond spin, it is outright propaganda .... not a single 'ordinary' person who confirms that it's no big deal, it's easy to understand, etc - just on the message, over and over and over - same game as never talking about any of the few very important things I write letters about (and others, no doubt), and then saying there is nothing important or interesting in Cdn politics or politicians, etc. blatant - and pretty much everyone in the country is so indoctrinated they cannot see it happening ....
- and then in the national news, a long story on Layton and Harper attacking the same Green Plan - so blatant!!!! (one can only figure that the powers that be are determined Dion gets nowhere near being PM, and Layton has been persuaded one way or another to pull a Broadbent, and help Harper get his majority ...) - EVERYTHING they do in relation to the election, or politics, is spin and propaganda - 'reporting' that any journalism school would not allow, the CBC picking a POV, finding a couple of interviews to support it, and no POVs from the other side - utterly amazing, only the most passive citizens could accept this stuff. And apparently most do. Although we will never know how much protest there is in the form of emails etc sent to the CBC or anywhere else, as of course they never print them or acknowledge them. (stuff on message boards is almost irrelevant, as nobody can read them all, and they have a much lower credibility factor than 'real stories by 'real' reporters' etc, but even so, the CBC is not allowing most of my attempts to get people at least aware of Banketeering, and they cut things asking what role the media is playing as well - out of the box stuff, criticizing the media all citizens must trust!!
- right up to the interview with Palin that gets 'reported', as the 'reporter' complains about 'the harsh-faced interviewer' - oh you poor little lady!! big bad man!!! such impartial 'journalism'!!
Thursday Sept 10 - the Current - interviewing Jack Layton, Tremonti on full attack mode, interrupting him, shouting at him, etc, obviously unhappy with what he says, pretty embarrassing .... we shall see later when she does others if she attacks the same way .... (Layton defends himself very well, sounds very good - which evidently upsets Tremonti somewhat, interrupting, aggressive, shouting - reminds me of her getting mad at Barrie Zwicker last year)
- and in the third half hour(!!) they do a profile of a kid they call somebody interested in politics etc - this seems like a good thing, but first, why does one person get this publicity, this endorsement from the official media? It is gatekeeping - this guy is ok is the message, a role model for the listeners, etc. And it is propaganda, in the sense of 'look at ytour great CBC talking about ordinary people that you should know about' - etc. It's good to give this kid some exposure, but he knows little, and this is putting out the idea that he is someone worth listening to on a broader level, when really he is very innocent, and very in the box - so listening to him is to encourage more of the same. Which is what 'they'; want, but which is not good for our future. (also a note on the guy who made the piece - obviously again a 20-something, who thinks he is cutting edge, but would still be in journalism school in a country where we had real journalists) - as always, this is not that offensive in itself, but it's the people they do NOT cover who SHOULD be covered that underlines that this is, in reality, propaganda, and creating the Cdn narrative (this kid will get in the history books as an example of how the media 'reached out' to ordinary Cdns, but there will never be any mention of the issues they do want people thinking about, such as banketeering, or CAP, the SPP, etc., Propaganda, no other way to put it, when you see the full picture from outside the box.)
Kevin O'Connor, Regina, CBC news - a 'prof' talking about how Canadians agree with many things in the American election - obviously a piece as part of 'creating the narrative' - the things they choose to talk about, as opposed to the things they do not ....
- and then in Sounds like Canada - more on how 'boring' the Cdn election is, as opposed to that wonderfully interesting American election - all you folks just go home, sit down at your tv, no point in voting, everything's just boring etc and etc - it gets so frustrating sometimes when I want to be screaming at people about how important this is, but the media that people very mistakenly trust is just putting them to sleep - and how obviously all the politicians are involved in the scam, as May is on talking about cooking, laughing and having a good time - part of the 'nothing here to see folks' game - creating the narrative. We have amazing speakers in Canada, such as Connie Fogal, but they won't let her talk .... the choice of guests on these shows is the same thing - guests who talk about these things, but not the opposite - (and they are sophisticated propagandists - very scripted to make certain points and not talk about others - these people are way ahead of me .....)
Wednesday Sept 10 - hourly news 09:00 Ottawa
derek stofel from Afghan - Teleban has 'ramped up the propaganda' telling Cdns that the new PM better 'withdraw from Kandahar or more troops weill be killed'; - sounds a lot more like CBC proaganda to me, and the dumbed down language the 'reporter' uses - 'ramped up' on the CBC, really, these guys wouldn't even get jobs running messages back and forth when the CBC was real ....
Tuesday Sept 9 - CBC morning news (8:00 Ottawa, Judy Madrin)
slagging China again, Anthony whatever about a prisoner sentenced to death who killed some cops - similar things happen in America all the time, but NEVER does the CBC do anything more than report in a neutral tone of voice, none of this 'look at them damned commies we're just so outraged!!' stuff. The prisoner, he notes '.. says something that must terrify the authorities' - people criticize the US all the time, but NEVER again do we hear anything like this - when people criticize the US government, THEY are in the wrong, when they criticize the Chinese, they are heroes - always so obvious, at least from out here in outside the box land ....
- and on the current, a 'documentary' about Americans moving to Russia during the 30s and winding up in 'Stalin's gulag' - now next week we will wait for a story on the American Japanese that wound up in the American gulag, no doubt, just to be fair, or how the Americans today have the highest prison population in the world, and the most executions, and are violating human rights everywhere by forced labor for corporations, and etc hahaha sure we will, right CBC?? Again, the propaganda is obvious because they always criticize others, but never 'us' or especially the Americans, who are one of the greatest human rights abusers the world has ever known, not that you'd ever figure that out from listening to the CBC or other Canadian media ....
- the guy mentions 'leftists' who went to Russia, gratuitous slagging again .... American 'leftist' press .... lots of talk of Russian / 'leftist' propaganda, never a word about American 'rightist' propaganda, then or now .... talks about reporters of the time not talking about obvious Russian problems - but the CBC or others in Canada never talk about modern American reporters refusing to talk about current problems with the media or anything else to do with 'great America' - the CBC the same - so obviously propaganda by the CBC when you understand the bigger picture - just at a much greater level of sophistication than in earlier times ....
Sunday Sept 6 - the big surprise election announcement! (at least Perry's first question is 'why now?', as if everyone hasn't been talking about this for two weeks. And the 'analyst's' first comment is again to let everybody know that they are supposed to see Dion as a weak leader, as they've been hammering endlessly for the last 18 months. "Is Dion worth the risk??" - interesting that Petty mentions 'the campaign narrative' - which they are already composing - Dion the loser, Layton has no chance to win, Harper is very leader-like. No question which way this one is going - con majority. People of Canada conned bigtime.
Petty's issues - listeria, health care, environment, economy, job losses, energy costs, jobs are safe, Afghanistan,
(note - this was obviously a 'special breaking news!! broadcast' that was long in preparation, with tape clips at the ready etc)
- third hour of Sunday morning - a special on talking about the election, with various guests - isn't it interesting that they could arrange all of this in the 90 minutes or so since the election was actually called!!!! - scripts and all - ...... the narrative is being created, and apparently nobody in the country besides me is aware of it. I suppose there are others, but there's no way we're getting time on the mainstream media.
Sat Sept 5 - the house, election coverage begins, with a look at Dion - hammering hammering as they have been since he was elected - mention 'left of center' crowd in the bit on Dion (let's count the times Harper gets referred to as right wing) -
Friday Sept 4 - Current - leaving Afghanistan Cdn ambassador, on to do his bit to ramp up support for 'the mission', never miss a chance - 'how do you explain what is happening, even though it looks bad?' - blatant 'we're really winning and doing good stuff!!! - and they are really bad, bad guys and we have to keep fighting for truth and justice!!'
Propaganda.
'The goal of the Afghan gov is to build a new free Afghanistan - right. led by corrupt warlords.
and etc. deconstruction of the things this interview does NOT talk about could fill pages.
- some obvious scripting as well, to 'address the concerns of Canadians' - the obvious reason for such 'interviews'
- but interview doing a good job of pretending to 'ask the hard questions!!'. right.
Thursday Aug 28 - Ottawa morning again - Ms Petty obviously has a bee in her bonnet about the listeria stuff, and is all over the meat packers. The thing is, this is not really deserving of this kind of press attack - a few people died, there was a meat recall - a story, certainly, but things seem to be under control, and turning into a several weeks long media frenzy does exactly what good? Well, another in the long line of media making small things into big things, whilst ignoring major stories - pretending that things like this are major gives them an excuse to say look what a fine job we do for Canadians!! right. It would be interesting to see this kind of media outrage at a wedding party being bombed in Afghanistan by OUR troops, for instance, or the banketeering, or the highly undemocratic nature of our country. And etc.
- the current - jeezus - they have a spokesperson from the department of defence explaining what the Cdns are doing in Afghanistan, she sounds like a teenager!! - voice up and down as teens talk to each other or children they think they are teaching.
- and then a scripted 'interview' with Enright about the DNC - obviously scripted, the sound clips were introduced as if coming up in natural conversation - and although the coverage of the Beijing olympics always was sure to include something about Chinese protests, or suppression thereof - not a single word about the police suppression of protest here.
Tuesday - Aug 27 CBC PEI - Diana Francis, miss Big Mom jr - 'dirty little habit' - 'even smokers know smoking is stupid' - studies prove it!!!!! - more garbage 'science' - no alt opinion, of course, just slagging smokers - propaganda
Ottawa Morning - about the listeria - asks the interviewee - 'Should we be told...' certain information - she accepts completely the complete right of the gov to control informaiton completely - not a whisper about 'democracy' etc -
- this morning, or maybe the morning before, the news reader (Madrin?) was saying 'err' as in purr rather than as in bear. On the CBC.
Sunday Aug 25 - Sunday Edition - major interview again slagging China. I wonder if they have any idea how bad this ongoing attack is making them sound? Probably not. I wonder if many Canadians are seeing this? Again, I doubt it. Would be nice to be surprised. - the interviewee was a pretty sane guy, tried to mention militarism in general as a problem, tried to talk about Iraq, and the US, but the interviewer kept steering him back to China, not interested in the wider exploration at all, esp when it led towards the US - in every way a much greater world criminal than China.
Friday Aug 23 - CBC
- '... Russia celebrates its victory over tiny Georgia' - very seriously misleading statement, as Russia moved to protect Ossetia from a Georgia invasion. Undoubtedly, all things considered, not accidentally so. When it comes to people 'we' do not like on the CBC, editorialising is us. This is the new professionalism, I guess. They'd all fail in the real CBC.
- and the slagging of China continues "Did China cheat?!?!' and etc. - oh jeezus they have a BLOGGER as proof!!!! - I could dig up dozens of examples of bloggers uncovering things the CBC doesn't want to talk about, and if the CBC acknowleges them at all, it is in the sense that 'Oh, golly, we don't pay attention to bloggers haha, so amateurish!!!' - but if they're slagging China - wellllll this is real stuff now!!!! - so with this blogger, it's all softball lob questions, helping him along, scripted questions to make sure he covers the main things they want covered. With a blogger they disagree with - hardball, mockery, etc. Anna Maria talking to Barrie Zwicker last year as an example. (and the blogger sounds far, far too much like a trained actor acting the part of a blogger with this amazing new information that he doesn't know what to do with - so he 'reaches out to the blogging community' so amateurish (the CBC doing this) - the saddest part is, probably most Cdns are lapping it up like the pablum it is)
- and the second 'guest' the same - 'we have seen reports on the internet!!' - normally, the CBC just disses 'internet' reports as 'bloggers' and others of no credibility - but if they're slagging someone the CBC wants slagged, the net is great!!!
Thursday Aug 21 - still at it - the 'humor' bit at the first, and the lead story on the Current - slagging the Chinese (with 'our interpid' 'reporter', no less), and his great expose of trying to get a permit to have a demonstration in Beijing. This was scripted, at least in outline form - just too conveniently flowing to the points the 'reporter' wants to make with the questions he is asked. He has to be an actor, the expressions in his voice are not 'reporterish'. I suspect a lot of what goes on at the CBC is scripted and performed by actors. These awful things may be happening in China, but the hypocrisy of the CBC and other Cdn MSM is that similar stories are all over the net these days about Canada and the US - but NEVER covered on the CBC. Making their propaganda function very obvious. If they were doing 'news', they'd be at least as interested in things closer to home, and even more so. When they make a big issue out of 'Look at them bad people over there!!!!' - and refuse to talk about things here, it is obvious. At least when you're watching with a turned on brain from outside the box - apparently a lot of people inside the box just lap it up like they're supposed to (see 'public comment' sections in the media).
[[[The reporter, and host, seems to miss the obvious point that he is pushing the Chinese officials about all kinds of things - and they deal with him politely - he's not tossed in jail, or beaten, he's just allowed to walk around like a teenage kid pouting at the adults, and then come home and tell his little self-righteous story on the CBC - I suspect quite a few American and even Canadian officials, in these days of 'terrorists everywhere!!!!', would be considerably less tolerant - but by golly, we're not going THERE on the CBC!!!. Absolutely pathetic. I could find high school students from every high school in Canada to do the same kind of thing about Cdn officials of all sorts - think we'll ever see anything like this on the CBC? Not likely.]]] - the announcer called the report 'what an odyssey'!!!! - what a farce.
submitted to Current comments - I have found your continual slagging of the Chinese absolutely pathetic. Pretend 'journalism' of the most juvenile sort.
I have to say I find your continual slagging of China highly unprofessional and irritating. I do not love China nor their somewhat repressive regime - but what is so hypocritical of you is that there are similar stories all over the net about things as repressive in Canada or the US that you never talk about. You are simply doing propaganda - look at them damned repressive commies, while we here in Canada are just so free!! -
Wednesday Aug 21 - CBC still jabbing at China like petulant angry children. some guy who tried to demonstrate was not allowed - the highly personalized comment of the 'journalist' - '...he's been 'harmonized', be quiet or be thrown in jail ...' - the gov has the exact same goal in Canada, but the media spins it very differently, firstly by ignoring such protests as much as possible ...
- and Russian situation - they interview some people who say they do not see Russia pulling back - what garbage 'journalism', finding a couple of people to say what message you want to put out, and nobody to respond - you can find someone to say anything, this proves nothing, except the CBC is not worthy of the name 'news' organisation
- Ottawa morning, doing a movie review, the guy notes that now admission to movies is restricted to over 16s because there is smoking in the movie!!!!! I don't believe this, I do but I don't. And Petty just has a little chuckle - nothing to complain about, just interesting to notice Big Mother's latest edict, certainly nothing any citizen should consider complaining about or protesting - just do as you're told, children, and whatever Big Mother wants, the CBC will dutifully make appropriate noises about it all.
Monday Aug 18 - Ottawa 08:00 'news' - Russia has said they are pulling out of Georgia, but the reporter talks to some grunts an a checkpoint and lets us all know that the common soldier is not in on the plans of the Russian army. Boy, that sure wouldn't happen to Cdn or American troops, who are all immediately informed of the plans of their superior officers. Now that's real CBC journalism.
Later - the Current, talking about 'the terrible tragedy of the killed aid workers' - and the following Taliban 'propaganda' - apparently again not a single person involved here recognizes the great irony in that they are doing serious propaganda with this kind of show!! - there is ZERO acknowledgement of the Taliban statement's particulars, that this was in part because Cdns and others kill civilians, so they will too - which seems to me quite probably true - just a couple of very nice-sounding men on explaining the great and wonderful work they were doing in dangerous locales, and them damned evil taliban were just mindlessly killing anyone they could. Propaganda of the worst sort. And from my reading of various discussion places, a great many Cdns agree with this. Like Zappa said, it ain't getting any smarter out there.
Friday Aug 15 - the CBC summer drive series on making China look bad continues, a 'report' on how the Chinese 'repress' good Christian churches. Various problems - one-sided reports from the 'repressed christians' who have an axe to grind, as they say, which is normally not regarded as the best way to ascertain facts (good 'journalism' when you want to demonize someone, of course, with no POVs from anyone with a different one - the cheapest kind of 'gotcha' crap from the bully pulpit, more and more standard CBC operating procedure). And a bit of perspective on the idea that just maybe banning religion and belief in mythological 'gods' from civilized societies might be a good idea for all of us .... the whole tenor is as before - 'we' know 'we' are good and free, and anything we do is good, and if them commies won't let their people do as 'we' do, there must be something bad going on. and etc.
(and then in contrast they have a gang of true loonies, the evangelists from the US right, talking for the next half hour, a sane sort of woman, a true believer, and an 'analyst' - but everyone taking these people seriously. )
Sunday edition - interviewing some unknown writer for 30 minutes - what exposure!!!! - just he got picked 'coincidentally' - or something behind the scenes? Hmmm. And the interviewer starts off "A novel about a writer trying to find an idea for a novel - how strange!' - as if the idea is completely novel to her! - god, a high school teacher would corral her over that, yet the CBC thinks it clever. Down and down and down they go. (Nothing against the writer himself, a golden opportunity - just the appearance of it all, as this does not seem like an especially important book or writer, just a very 'lucky' one to be given this exposure.) A host on a senior CBC show sounding like a vaguely precocious 20-something, self-centered, knows everything (not!! - but in her own shallow mind..), etc, fawning over this writer with softball 'what a great idea/book/character etc' 'questions'. Amused by the book character saying clever things in criticism of tv shows or other Canadian 'cultural institutions' such as the Giller, etc - with no idea, I am sure, of the irony she is embodying.
- comment towards end about no plot in Cdn novels - even with my limited reading of Cdn lit, I know this to be completely untrue - 'but YOU, of course, wonderful writer, are all plot!!!!' - she knows nothing, the CBC really ought to be embarrassed with this big time. But if I write, of course, they'll tell me how proud they are of it, if they reply at all. Maybe her dad is secretly the boss or something.
Thurs - PEI 08:00 news - the quote from the guy about 'unspeakable savagery' about the shooting of the aid workers getting much attention - but I don't think you will find any earlier referrals to Canadian 'unspeakable savagery' for shooting kids on bikes or bombing wedding parties, shooting kids in cars, the endless acts of American unspeakable savagery all over the world for decades, etc. More blaming the victims in those cases, etc. Basic propaganda - you judge an act by who did it as much as the act itself. They monsters, we nice guys. Right.
Current, talking to someone from China about the Chinese way of training children to excel in sports - the attitude of the interviewer is 'we are so great in Canada, what's wrong with you people?' - not overt, but quite obvious underneath. And a comment about not letting Chinese children be children - that would require a lengthy essay to address, but what we do to children in this country is not to be bragged about.
- and the last guy is a 'psychologist' explaining how the 'collective' system excels, because they subdue individuals etc - in Canada, of course, there is no such thing as a 'sports' scholarship, it's all about 'education' - hahaha. In our own way, we are FAR more regimentalized than the Chinese or the rest. But that's WAY out of the box. The people running Canada simply have a different strategy for controlling their citizens than the Chinese - they work with collectivity, we work with divide and conquer. And propaganda. Big, big, big indoctrination and propaganda. Again, outside the box thoughts you will never hear talked about on the Current or anywhere else on the CBC. Because the Truth is something that you will not hear much of in the Cdn media.
radio news Aug 13 - Ottawa 08:00 - Mike Hornbrook, Tabesi - "...Russia has no intention of withdrawing what it calls its peacemakers - " - do you suppose that Cdn or American or UN 'peacemakers' have ever been referred to like this? Got my doubts ..... - this is, of course, editorializing, frowned upon by real journalists.
- god, and they're still on the lip-synching 'story'. what a bunch of pettiness.
CBC Aug 12 - PEI National News - 06:00 - again, gratuitous smearing of the Chinese, this time a story on how protests are not allowed, how the gov deals harshly with protesters. When protestors are dealt with harshly in Canada or America, it's just ho hum another day at the shop - no criticism from the CBC or anyone else, where there should be much more protest from our media about such things - their refusal to do so actually acts as a support of gov oppression. Keep the damned sheep in the pen!!!
- they have interviews with people telling stories about repression etc - but when similar things happen in Canada, such people are never interviewed, just 'authorities' justifying the way they deal with protestors, telling worried listeners/readers that those claims of violence were exaggerated by the protesters, and really it's all their own damned fault etc. There is indoctrination going on here - it's just not coming from the Chines gov-media, but our own traitorous CBC.
08:00 'news' from Ottawa - 'reporter' from Georgia has talked to some people who say that 'the world should tell Russia to get out of Georgia' and etc - what are the bets that if you go through the CBC archives you will or will not find CBC reporters from Afghanistan or Iraq 'telling the world to tell the Americans to get out of our country' ????? - it's the blatant double standard that makes it all propaganda - we bomb wedding parties, it's a regrettable accident - they bomb wedding parties it's barbaric terrorism.
((same 'news'cast - this clown called anthony germaine finished his 'report' on the Chinese protest situation by calling it 'a joke'. That's real professional journalism talk there. It's CBC 'news' that is becoming a joke. Or a tragedy.))
- at it again on the Current!!! - something funny going on here, or maybe just some small mind running CBC who likes to feel big by kicking a giant whilst protected by an even bigger bully - of course, the bully's country has human rights violations FAR bigger than the Chinese, but we are never going to talk about that kind of thing on the CBC, where We Love Merica!!
-- this Current is really blatant in places, the 'reporter' and host talking as if we live in such a wonderful free democracy, their tones of voices just full of wonder that the Chinese guy still supports his people etc, and they just can't believe what they are hearing - perfect little box people, mimincing the box doctrine (terrible commies so unlucky, wonderful us so lucky etc), they sound like they really believe what they are saying - indoctrinated to the gills. And doing their best to maintain these beliefs in the Cdn population. And succeeding, by and large, from what I can gather from comments on the net where they are allowed (of course they manage to disallow most comments from me protesting this, and presumably others as well).
- the reporter asks the Chinese guy if he thinks he is the most courageous guy in China or the stupidest - maybe he ought to try a mirror sometime. These people with no wisdom, adolescent minds, doing this on the radio, the CBC, as if they were actually talking intelligently about important things, says things about what is happening, what has happened already, in Canada that it seems basically nobody but me understands. That is pretty scary. Or if they understand it they are saying nothing - which is just as scary.
- it's the whole attitude of juvenile superiority that is so infuriating with these people, stupid little people spouting nonsense, riding on the coattails of others with no idea of any deeper ways the world is and works, of how seriously compromised their own masters are. Matt Galloway, precocious high school star, talking to his less privileged high school inferiors.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/12/olympics-lipsynch.html - it gets beyond pathetic and petty. No other major event on tv would EVER stoop to such things as lyp-synching, of course. Nor substituting 'beautiful' people for less photogenic ones. Oh god no, not in modern corporateland. (and of course it's a 'revalation' - them CBC reporters are about as good as it gets, uncovering major stuff like this!!!!) I leave before I puke.
- 6.30 'news' - it's a PEI story that a Lib candidate is 'recycling his old campaign signs'. You bet. Sure beats talking about democracy or banking or the SPP or any real issues etc.
Thursday Sept 18 - PEI news 6:30 am - making a big issue about some guy joking about 'hopes the person who died on PEI from listeriosis was Wayne Easter' - cheap joke, common sort of thing in ANY circle normal people move in, but the CBC is going to take it seriously and make a big issue out of it. Dumbing down in action, by PC people - this sort of thing is nothing more than childish, adults understand that this sort of joke is made, and is nothing more than that, a joke. Perhaps a bit tasteless, but hardly the stuff over which normal adult people get outraged. Big momma in action. (and the 'joking' as reported on the newscast - '...this may be death by a thousand cuts - or should that be cold cuts...' - I should never think this stuff cannot get more pathetic. But on a major CBC provincial news cast? This would get laughed out of a journalism school course ..... dumbing down in action. Nonstop. And if they want to censor the politician for the tasteless joke, why do they make equally tasteless ones themselves? As always, one rule for us, another for you.
- and making a big issue of the NDP candidate who did some drugs 'live' - some people might think this a perfect opportunity to talk about how most Canadians want pot legalised, but no, the PC CBC is all holier than thou about it all. This is a real issue that needs talking about, and real issues is one place we are NOT going during this campaign, insofar as the CBC has anything to do with it all.
- Ottawa news, 8.30, story on Pettawawa, not much interest in the election at Pettawawa, but it's a way to remind people about how both the Cons and Libs have 'agreed' on the 2011 withdrawal, so we don't need to talk about this much, right? Who cares what Canadians think about this all, eh???? But we do manage to get a few comments about how that date - 'may be too soon' - we're very definitely not going to hear from the majority of Canadians who want withdrawal now, as in ASAP, or ask politicians why they don't care what Canadians think about this, but let's get this little 'support the mssion!!! story in .... that's is indoctrination at work, constant small reinforcements sneaking in under the radar, and influencing what people think ....
- lady on the current 'doing the mail', just happens to mention her new book about the very serious situation of women in Afghanistan (you wavering people, we're doing GOOD STUFF THERE!!!!]]]] - blatant, very obvious what is happening from outside the box. Virtually never do we hear anything talking about how most Canadians do not want to be there, or how we got involved very undemocratically, etc.
Wednesday Sept 17 - the current - interview with Dion, Tremonti pretty aggressive, obviously dislikes Dion (all rightwing complaining about 'lefty media' notwithstanding), but he handled himself very impressively - have to wait and see how she deals with Harper - aggressive is ok, as long as it is evenly distributed amongst all candidates ...
- always stories of interest to be told, like the one from Fredericton today about the Down syndrome political activist - again, this would be fine, if we were also getting the story of, for instance, Connie Fogal and CAP, and why they continue to spend so much time fighting when the mainstream media continues to ignore them, even though they seem to speak for so many Canadians ....
Tuesday Sept 16 - the Current - second part - another long segment on May - as somebody said, any PR is good PR, and if the objective is getting May well enough known to get that anti-Harper vote well split up among the Greens, NDP and Libs, they're doing, I would suggest, a very good job. Still haven't heard a word from anyone about SPP, or money supply, even though I have written everyone about Banketeering, it's completely ignored by all the mainstream people who remain firmly in the box comments with 'issues' and commentary etc, same old stuff, nothing important, although they all pretend, of course, to be important and serious
- the whole focus of this show is that Canadian are waaaaaay behind the Americans in using the net for politics - not a word about the role of the media in this, the role of major left wing websites in preventing organising between elections, the role of the mainstream media in marginalising any useful websites, etc. propaganda all the way. Very clever propaganda, but all designed to create the Cdn narrative
- the interviewee jesse brown complains about parties not giving Cdns the info they need - do they not see the 'irony' here???? Isn't it the MEDIA supposed to inform Canadians?!?!? Shouldn't we be talking about the media NOT doing this? Most of my comments to Cdn newspaper 'comment' boards are removed, including the CBC sites - how obvious can it be what you are doing? But that's the Canadian narrative - the media are wonderful people who give Canadians all the information they need - and apparently most Canadians believe this, and will not think about anything the media does not tell them to think about, or have no opinions not sanctioned by the media.
Monday Sept 15 - the Current giving more attention to May and the Greens - a party with no elected MPS, but not a day goes by May is not in the news, or on the radio being interviewed by someone - compare with CAP, who has had not a single word of press, although they speak for things a lot of Canadians care about, that nobody else does .... May getting attention like this would be good if the other minor parties and issues got the same sort of exposure, to let the voters know what was going on in their country. What would happen if the CBC et al gave the same attention to the SPP, or democracy and PR in Canada, or whether or not the Libs and Cons actually care about what Canadians think about the Afghan mission, and etc. Spin spin and spin - they want the vote split, so they give May attention.
Sunday Sept 14 - 09:00 Halifax national news - still at it, this is not even subtle any more, first a story from Quebec about how 'disillusioned' Bloc voters are turning to Harper, and then a quote from Harper about how all other parties have moved to the left, leaving the center for him - complete bullshit, but that is the narrative they are creating for the history books - 'centrist' Harper attracting Canadians and the loser lefties falling behind (actually, obviously, Harper is well to the right, and the NDP pretty centrist, with the Libs kind of center right leaning far right - but we are NOT going to talk about those parties being right wing, or get involved in any discussions about how the NDP actually have policies closer to what most Canadians believe in - the narrative that Canadians are being told to believe is that the Libs and Cons are centrist and represent Canadians, and the NDP are just the lefty fringe. And most Canadians are well enough trained to accept this crap without thinking about it at all, and then voting for the people who are wrecking their country rather than people who want to save it. And they are going to push May more to make sure the anti harper vote is well divided, on cross country checkup today. Apparently I am the only one in the country who has any fucking clue what is going on - how successful the indoctrination has been, and is. God give me a place to get out of this craziness!!!!!!!
Friday Sept 11 - CBC Charlottetown news - 06:30am, still slagging the Libs - the candidate 'tries' to explain the carbon tax (obviously it is 'too difficult' for people to understand, is the CBC narrative of this 'story', and 'trying' indicates that it is too difficult etc) - they get a few interviews with people who say they don't understand it, golly!! poor little simpleton citizen me!! - but none, of course, from people who say it is perfectly clear and no problem - always, always always creating the narrative - this will be in the history books, the carbon tax was too difficult to understand, etc .... then the interview with the candidate, the little CBC reporter saying over and over and over again that he doesn't understand it, cannot find anyone who understands it, 'don't you think this is a hard sell..'? etc and etc - this is way beyond spin, it is outright propaganda .... not a single 'ordinary' person who confirms that it's no big deal, it's easy to understand, etc - just on the message, over and over and over - same game as never talking about any of the few very important things I write letters about (and others, no doubt), and then saying there is nothing important or interesting in Cdn politics or politicians, etc. blatant - and pretty much everyone in the country is so indoctrinated they cannot see it happening ....
- and then in the national news, a long story on Layton and Harper attacking the same Green Plan - so blatant!!!! (one can only figure that the powers that be are determined Dion gets nowhere near being PM, and Layton has been persuaded one way or another to pull a Broadbent, and help Harper get his majority ...) - EVERYTHING they do in relation to the election, or politics, is spin and propaganda - 'reporting' that any journalism school would not allow, the CBC picking a POV, finding a couple of interviews to support it, and no POVs from the other side - utterly amazing, only the most passive citizens could accept this stuff. And apparently most do. Although we will never know how much protest there is in the form of emails etc sent to the CBC or anywhere else, as of course they never print them or acknowledge them. (stuff on message boards is almost irrelevant, as nobody can read them all, and they have a much lower credibility factor than 'real stories by 'real' reporters' etc, but even so, the CBC is not allowing most of my attempts to get people at least aware of Banketeering, and they cut things asking what role the media is playing as well - out of the box stuff, criticizing the media all citizens must trust!!
- right up to the interview with Palin that gets 'reported', as the 'reporter' complains about 'the harsh-faced interviewer' - oh you poor little lady!! big bad man!!! such impartial 'journalism'!!
Thursday Sept 10 - the Current - interviewing Jack Layton, Tremonti on full attack mode, interrupting him, shouting at him, etc, obviously unhappy with what he says, pretty embarrassing .... we shall see later when she does others if she attacks the same way .... (Layton defends himself very well, sounds very good - which evidently upsets Tremonti somewhat, interrupting, aggressive, shouting - reminds me of her getting mad at Barrie Zwicker last year)
- and in the third half hour(!!) they do a profile of a kid they call somebody interested in politics etc - this seems like a good thing, but first, why does one person get this publicity, this endorsement from the official media? It is gatekeeping - this guy is ok is the message, a role model for the listeners, etc. And it is propaganda, in the sense of 'look at ytour great CBC talking about ordinary people that you should know about' - etc. It's good to give this kid some exposure, but he knows little, and this is putting out the idea that he is someone worth listening to on a broader level, when really he is very innocent, and very in the box - so listening to him is to encourage more of the same. Which is what 'they'; want, but which is not good for our future. (also a note on the guy who made the piece - obviously again a 20-something, who thinks he is cutting edge, but would still be in journalism school in a country where we had real journalists) - as always, this is not that offensive in itself, but it's the people they do NOT cover who SHOULD be covered that underlines that this is, in reality, propaganda, and creating the Cdn narrative (this kid will get in the history books as an example of how the media 'reached out' to ordinary Cdns, but there will never be any mention of the issues they do want people thinking about, such as banketeering, or CAP, the SPP, etc., Propaganda, no other way to put it, when you see the full picture from outside the box.)
Kevin O'Connor, Regina, CBC news - a 'prof' talking about how Canadians agree with many things in the American election - obviously a piece as part of 'creating the narrative' - the things they choose to talk about, as opposed to the things they do not ....
- and then in Sounds like Canada - more on how 'boring' the Cdn election is, as opposed to that wonderfully interesting American election - all you folks just go home, sit down at your tv, no point in voting, everything's just boring etc and etc - it gets so frustrating sometimes when I want to be screaming at people about how important this is, but the media that people very mistakenly trust is just putting them to sleep - and how obviously all the politicians are involved in the scam, as May is on talking about cooking, laughing and having a good time - part of the 'nothing here to see folks' game - creating the narrative. We have amazing speakers in Canada, such as Connie Fogal, but they won't let her talk .... the choice of guests on these shows is the same thing - guests who talk about these things, but not the opposite - (and they are sophisticated propagandists - very scripted to make certain points and not talk about others - these people are way ahead of me .....)
Wednesday Sept 10 - hourly news 09:00 Ottawa
derek stofel from Afghan - Teleban has 'ramped up the propaganda' telling Cdns that the new PM better 'withdraw from Kandahar or more troops weill be killed'; - sounds a lot more like CBC proaganda to me, and the dumbed down language the 'reporter' uses - 'ramped up' on the CBC, really, these guys wouldn't even get jobs running messages back and forth when the CBC was real ....
Tuesday Sept 9 - CBC morning news (8:00 Ottawa, Judy Madrin)
slagging China again, Anthony whatever about a prisoner sentenced to death who killed some cops - similar things happen in America all the time, but NEVER does the CBC do anything more than report in a neutral tone of voice, none of this 'look at them damned commies we're just so outraged!!' stuff. The prisoner, he notes '.. says something that must terrify the authorities' - people criticize the US all the time, but NEVER again do we hear anything like this - when people criticize the US government, THEY are in the wrong, when they criticize the Chinese, they are heroes - always so obvious, at least from out here in outside the box land ....
- and on the current, a 'documentary' about Americans moving to Russia during the 30s and winding up in 'Stalin's gulag' - now next week we will wait for a story on the American Japanese that wound up in the American gulag, no doubt, just to be fair, or how the Americans today have the highest prison population in the world, and the most executions, and are violating human rights everywhere by forced labor for corporations, and etc hahaha sure we will, right CBC?? Again, the propaganda is obvious because they always criticize others, but never 'us' or especially the Americans, who are one of the greatest human rights abusers the world has ever known, not that you'd ever figure that out from listening to the CBC or other Canadian media ....
- the guy mentions 'leftists' who went to Russia, gratuitous slagging again .... American 'leftist' press .... lots of talk of Russian / 'leftist' propaganda, never a word about American 'rightist' propaganda, then or now .... talks about reporters of the time not talking about obvious Russian problems - but the CBC or others in Canada never talk about modern American reporters refusing to talk about current problems with the media or anything else to do with 'great America' - the CBC the same - so obviously propaganda by the CBC when you understand the bigger picture - just at a much greater level of sophistication than in earlier times ....
Sunday Sept 6 - the big surprise election announcement! (at least Perry's first question is 'why now?', as if everyone hasn't been talking about this for two weeks. And the 'analyst's' first comment is again to let everybody know that they are supposed to see Dion as a weak leader, as they've been hammering endlessly for the last 18 months. "Is Dion worth the risk??" - interesting that Petty mentions 'the campaign narrative' - which they are already composing - Dion the loser, Layton has no chance to win, Harper is very leader-like. No question which way this one is going - con majority. People of Canada conned bigtime.
Petty's issues - listeria, health care, environment, economy, job losses, energy costs, jobs are safe, Afghanistan,
(note - this was obviously a 'special breaking news!! broadcast' that was long in preparation, with tape clips at the ready etc)
- third hour of Sunday morning - a special on talking about the election, with various guests - isn't it interesting that they could arrange all of this in the 90 minutes or so since the election was actually called!!!! - scripts and all - ...... the narrative is being created, and apparently nobody in the country besides me is aware of it. I suppose there are others, but there's no way we're getting time on the mainstream media.
Sat Sept 5 - the house, election coverage begins, with a look at Dion - hammering hammering as they have been since he was elected - mention 'left of center' crowd in the bit on Dion (let's count the times Harper gets referred to as right wing) -
Friday Sept 4 - Current - leaving Afghanistan Cdn ambassador, on to do his bit to ramp up support for 'the mission', never miss a chance - 'how do you explain what is happening, even though it looks bad?' - blatant 'we're really winning and doing good stuff!!! - and they are really bad, bad guys and we have to keep fighting for truth and justice!!'
Propaganda.
'The goal of the Afghan gov is to build a new free Afghanistan - right. led by corrupt warlords.
and etc. deconstruction of the things this interview does NOT talk about could fill pages.
- some obvious scripting as well, to 'address the concerns of Canadians' - the obvious reason for such 'interviews'
- but interview doing a good job of pretending to 'ask the hard questions!!'. right.
Thursday Aug 28 - Ottawa morning again - Ms Petty obviously has a bee in her bonnet about the listeria stuff, and is all over the meat packers. The thing is, this is not really deserving of this kind of press attack - a few people died, there was a meat recall - a story, certainly, but things seem to be under control, and turning into a several weeks long media frenzy does exactly what good? Well, another in the long line of media making small things into big things, whilst ignoring major stories - pretending that things like this are major gives them an excuse to say look what a fine job we do for Canadians!! right. It would be interesting to see this kind of media outrage at a wedding party being bombed in Afghanistan by OUR troops, for instance, or the banketeering, or the highly undemocratic nature of our country. And etc.
- the current - jeezus - they have a spokesperson from the department of defence explaining what the Cdns are doing in Afghanistan, she sounds like a teenager!! - voice up and down as teens talk to each other or children they think they are teaching.
- and then a scripted 'interview' with Enright about the DNC - obviously scripted, the sound clips were introduced as if coming up in natural conversation - and although the coverage of the Beijing olympics always was sure to include something about Chinese protests, or suppression thereof - not a single word about the police suppression of protest here.
Tuesday - Aug 27 CBC PEI - Diana Francis, miss Big Mom jr - 'dirty little habit' - 'even smokers know smoking is stupid' - studies prove it!!!!! - more garbage 'science' - no alt opinion, of course, just slagging smokers - propaganda
Ottawa Morning - about the listeria - asks the interviewee - 'Should we be told...' certain information - she accepts completely the complete right of the gov to control informaiton completely - not a whisper about 'democracy' etc -
- this morning, or maybe the morning before, the news reader (Madrin?) was saying 'err' as in purr rather than as in bear. On the CBC.
Sunday Aug 25 - Sunday Edition - major interview again slagging China. I wonder if they have any idea how bad this ongoing attack is making them sound? Probably not. I wonder if many Canadians are seeing this? Again, I doubt it. Would be nice to be surprised. - the interviewee was a pretty sane guy, tried to mention militarism in general as a problem, tried to talk about Iraq, and the US, but the interviewer kept steering him back to China, not interested in the wider exploration at all, esp when it led towards the US - in every way a much greater world criminal than China.
Friday Aug 23 - CBC
- '... Russia celebrates its victory over tiny Georgia' - very seriously misleading statement, as Russia moved to protect Ossetia from a Georgia invasion. Undoubtedly, all things considered, not accidentally so. When it comes to people 'we' do not like on the CBC, editorialising is us. This is the new professionalism, I guess. They'd all fail in the real CBC.
- and the slagging of China continues "Did China cheat?!?!' and etc. - oh jeezus they have a BLOGGER as proof!!!! - I could dig up dozens of examples of bloggers uncovering things the CBC doesn't want to talk about, and if the CBC acknowleges them at all, it is in the sense that 'Oh, golly, we don't pay attention to bloggers haha, so amateurish!!!' - but if they're slagging China - wellllll this is real stuff now!!!! - so with this blogger, it's all softball lob questions, helping him along, scripted questions to make sure he covers the main things they want covered. With a blogger they disagree with - hardball, mockery, etc. Anna Maria talking to Barrie Zwicker last year as an example. (and the blogger sounds far, far too much like a trained actor acting the part of a blogger with this amazing new information that he doesn't know what to do with - so he 'reaches out to the blogging community' so amateurish (the CBC doing this) - the saddest part is, probably most Cdns are lapping it up like the pablum it is)
- and the second 'guest' the same - 'we have seen reports on the internet!!' - normally, the CBC just disses 'internet' reports as 'bloggers' and others of no credibility - but if they're slagging someone the CBC wants slagged, the net is great!!!
Thursday Aug 21 - still at it - the 'humor' bit at the first, and the lead story on the Current - slagging the Chinese (with 'our interpid' 'reporter', no less), and his great expose of trying to get a permit to have a demonstration in Beijing. This was scripted, at least in outline form - just too conveniently flowing to the points the 'reporter' wants to make with the questions he is asked. He has to be an actor, the expressions in his voice are not 'reporterish'. I suspect a lot of what goes on at the CBC is scripted and performed by actors. These awful things may be happening in China, but the hypocrisy of the CBC and other Cdn MSM is that similar stories are all over the net these days about Canada and the US - but NEVER covered on the CBC. Making their propaganda function very obvious. If they were doing 'news', they'd be at least as interested in things closer to home, and even more so. When they make a big issue out of 'Look at them bad people over there!!!!' - and refuse to talk about things here, it is obvious. At least when you're watching with a turned on brain from outside the box - apparently a lot of people inside the box just lap it up like they're supposed to (see 'public comment' sections in the media).
[[[The reporter, and host, seems to miss the obvious point that he is pushing the Chinese officials about all kinds of things - and they deal with him politely - he's not tossed in jail, or beaten, he's just allowed to walk around like a teenage kid pouting at the adults, and then come home and tell his little self-righteous story on the CBC - I suspect quite a few American and even Canadian officials, in these days of 'terrorists everywhere!!!!', would be considerably less tolerant - but by golly, we're not going THERE on the CBC!!!. Absolutely pathetic. I could find high school students from every high school in Canada to do the same kind of thing about Cdn officials of all sorts - think we'll ever see anything like this on the CBC? Not likely.]]] - the announcer called the report 'what an odyssey'!!!! - what a farce.
submitted to Current comments - I have found your continual slagging of the Chinese absolutely pathetic. Pretend 'journalism' of the most juvenile sort.
I have to say I find your continual slagging of China highly unprofessional and irritating. I do not love China nor their somewhat repressive regime - but what is so hypocritical of you is that there are similar stories all over the net about things as repressive in Canada or the US that you never talk about. You are simply doing propaganda - look at them damned repressive commies, while we here in Canada are just so free!! -
Wednesday Aug 21 - CBC still jabbing at China like petulant angry children. some guy who tried to demonstrate was not allowed - the highly personalized comment of the 'journalist' - '...he's been 'harmonized', be quiet or be thrown in jail ...' - the gov has the exact same goal in Canada, but the media spins it very differently, firstly by ignoring such protests as much as possible ...
- and Russian situation - they interview some people who say they do not see Russia pulling back - what garbage 'journalism', finding a couple of people to say what message you want to put out, and nobody to respond - you can find someone to say anything, this proves nothing, except the CBC is not worthy of the name 'news' organisation
- Ottawa morning, doing a movie review, the guy notes that now admission to movies is restricted to over 16s because there is smoking in the movie!!!!! I don't believe this, I do but I don't. And Petty just has a little chuckle - nothing to complain about, just interesting to notice Big Mother's latest edict, certainly nothing any citizen should consider complaining about or protesting - just do as you're told, children, and whatever Big Mother wants, the CBC will dutifully make appropriate noises about it all.
Monday Aug 18 - Ottawa 08:00 'news' - Russia has said they are pulling out of Georgia, but the reporter talks to some grunts an a checkpoint and lets us all know that the common soldier is not in on the plans of the Russian army. Boy, that sure wouldn't happen to Cdn or American troops, who are all immediately informed of the plans of their superior officers. Now that's real CBC journalism.
Later - the Current, talking about 'the terrible tragedy of the killed aid workers' - and the following Taliban 'propaganda' - apparently again not a single person involved here recognizes the great irony in that they are doing serious propaganda with this kind of show!! - there is ZERO acknowledgement of the Taliban statement's particulars, that this was in part because Cdns and others kill civilians, so they will too - which seems to me quite probably true - just a couple of very nice-sounding men on explaining the great and wonderful work they were doing in dangerous locales, and them damned evil taliban were just mindlessly killing anyone they could. Propaganda of the worst sort. And from my reading of various discussion places, a great many Cdns agree with this. Like Zappa said, it ain't getting any smarter out there.
Friday Aug 15 - the CBC summer drive series on making China look bad continues, a 'report' on how the Chinese 'repress' good Christian churches. Various problems - one-sided reports from the 'repressed christians' who have an axe to grind, as they say, which is normally not regarded as the best way to ascertain facts (good 'journalism' when you want to demonize someone, of course, with no POVs from anyone with a different one - the cheapest kind of 'gotcha' crap from the bully pulpit, more and more standard CBC operating procedure). And a bit of perspective on the idea that just maybe banning religion and belief in mythological 'gods' from civilized societies might be a good idea for all of us .... the whole tenor is as before - 'we' know 'we' are good and free, and anything we do is good, and if them commies won't let their people do as 'we' do, there must be something bad going on. and etc.
(and then in contrast they have a gang of true loonies, the evangelists from the US right, talking for the next half hour, a sane sort of woman, a true believer, and an 'analyst' - but everyone taking these people seriously. )
Sunday edition - interviewing some unknown writer for 30 minutes - what exposure!!!! - just he got picked 'coincidentally' - or something behind the scenes? Hmmm. And the interviewer starts off "A novel about a writer trying to find an idea for a novel - how strange!' - as if the idea is completely novel to her! - god, a high school teacher would corral her over that, yet the CBC thinks it clever. Down and down and down they go. (Nothing against the writer himself, a golden opportunity - just the appearance of it all, as this does not seem like an especially important book or writer, just a very 'lucky' one to be given this exposure.) A host on a senior CBC show sounding like a vaguely precocious 20-something, self-centered, knows everything (not!! - but in her own shallow mind..), etc, fawning over this writer with softball 'what a great idea/book/character etc' 'questions'. Amused by the book character saying clever things in criticism of tv shows or other Canadian 'cultural institutions' such as the Giller, etc - with no idea, I am sure, of the irony she is embodying.
- comment towards end about no plot in Cdn novels - even with my limited reading of Cdn lit, I know this to be completely untrue - 'but YOU, of course, wonderful writer, are all plot!!!!' - she knows nothing, the CBC really ought to be embarrassed with this big time. But if I write, of course, they'll tell me how proud they are of it, if they reply at all. Maybe her dad is secretly the boss or something.
Thurs - PEI 08:00 news - the quote from the guy about 'unspeakable savagery' about the shooting of the aid workers getting much attention - but I don't think you will find any earlier referrals to Canadian 'unspeakable savagery' for shooting kids on bikes or bombing wedding parties, shooting kids in cars, the endless acts of American unspeakable savagery all over the world for decades, etc. More blaming the victims in those cases, etc. Basic propaganda - you judge an act by who did it as much as the act itself. They monsters, we nice guys. Right.
Current, talking to someone from China about the Chinese way of training children to excel in sports - the attitude of the interviewer is 'we are so great in Canada, what's wrong with you people?' - not overt, but quite obvious underneath. And a comment about not letting Chinese children be children - that would require a lengthy essay to address, but what we do to children in this country is not to be bragged about.
- and the last guy is a 'psychologist' explaining how the 'collective' system excels, because they subdue individuals etc - in Canada, of course, there is no such thing as a 'sports' scholarship, it's all about 'education' - hahaha. In our own way, we are FAR more regimentalized than the Chinese or the rest. But that's WAY out of the box. The people running Canada simply have a different strategy for controlling their citizens than the Chinese - they work with collectivity, we work with divide and conquer. And propaganda. Big, big, big indoctrination and propaganda. Again, outside the box thoughts you will never hear talked about on the Current or anywhere else on the CBC. Because the Truth is something that you will not hear much of in the Cdn media.
radio news Aug 13 - Ottawa 08:00 - Mike Hornbrook, Tabesi - "...Russia has no intention of withdrawing what it calls its peacemakers - " - do you suppose that Cdn or American or UN 'peacemakers' have ever been referred to like this? Got my doubts ..... - this is, of course, editorializing, frowned upon by real journalists.
- god, and they're still on the lip-synching 'story'. what a bunch of pettiness.
CBC Aug 12 - PEI National News - 06:00 - again, gratuitous smearing of the Chinese, this time a story on how protests are not allowed, how the gov deals harshly with protesters. When protestors are dealt with harshly in Canada or America, it's just ho hum another day at the shop - no criticism from the CBC or anyone else, where there should be much more protest from our media about such things - their refusal to do so actually acts as a support of gov oppression. Keep the damned sheep in the pen!!!
- they have interviews with people telling stories about repression etc - but when similar things happen in Canada, such people are never interviewed, just 'authorities' justifying the way they deal with protestors, telling worried listeners/readers that those claims of violence were exaggerated by the protesters, and really it's all their own damned fault etc. There is indoctrination going on here - it's just not coming from the Chines gov-media, but our own traitorous CBC.
08:00 'news' from Ottawa - 'reporter' from Georgia has talked to some people who say that 'the world should tell Russia to get out of Georgia' and etc - what are the bets that if you go through the CBC archives you will or will not find CBC reporters from Afghanistan or Iraq 'telling the world to tell the Americans to get out of our country' ????? - it's the blatant double standard that makes it all propaganda - we bomb wedding parties, it's a regrettable accident - they bomb wedding parties it's barbaric terrorism.
((same 'news'cast - this clown called anthony germaine finished his 'report' on the Chinese protest situation by calling it 'a joke'. That's real professional journalism talk there. It's CBC 'news' that is becoming a joke. Or a tragedy.))
- at it again on the Current!!! - something funny going on here, or maybe just some small mind running CBC who likes to feel big by kicking a giant whilst protected by an even bigger bully - of course, the bully's country has human rights violations FAR bigger than the Chinese, but we are never going to talk about that kind of thing on the CBC, where We Love Merica!!
-- this Current is really blatant in places, the 'reporter' and host talking as if we live in such a wonderful free democracy, their tones of voices just full of wonder that the Chinese guy still supports his people etc, and they just can't believe what they are hearing - perfect little box people, mimincing the box doctrine (terrible commies so unlucky, wonderful us so lucky etc), they sound like they really believe what they are saying - indoctrinated to the gills. And doing their best to maintain these beliefs in the Cdn population. And succeeding, by and large, from what I can gather from comments on the net where they are allowed (of course they manage to disallow most comments from me protesting this, and presumably others as well).
- the reporter asks the Chinese guy if he thinks he is the most courageous guy in China or the stupidest - maybe he ought to try a mirror sometime. These people with no wisdom, adolescent minds, doing this on the radio, the CBC, as if they were actually talking intelligently about important things, says things about what is happening, what has happened already, in Canada that it seems basically nobody but me understands. That is pretty scary. Or if they understand it they are saying nothing - which is just as scary.
- it's the whole attitude of juvenile superiority that is so infuriating with these people, stupid little people spouting nonsense, riding on the coattails of others with no idea of any deeper ways the world is and works, of how seriously compromised their own masters are. Matt Galloway, precocious high school star, talking to his less privileged high school inferiors.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/12/olympics-lipsynch.html - it gets beyond pathetic and petty. No other major event on tv would EVER stoop to such things as lyp-synching, of course. Nor substituting 'beautiful' people for less photogenic ones. Oh god no, not in modern corporateland. (and of course it's a 'revalation' - them CBC reporters are about as good as it gets, uncovering major stuff like this!!!!) I leave before I puke.
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