Ford government creates its own fake news network (Ontario News Now)

mentalfloss

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'It's not news': Doug Ford's Ontario News Now attempts to muzzle media, experts say

The Progressive Conservative government's production of a TV-news-style video under the banner of "Ontario News Now" is a "pure example of fake news" that aims to undercut the pillars of democracy and muzzle media, political policy experts say.

"Having a separate news channel kind of corrodes the function of the democratic media, because it assumes that the media isn't able to fulfil the function that is assigned to them," said Jonathan Rose, a political science professor at Queen's University.

The partisan channel launched on Monday via social media with a minute-long video that served as a highlight reel of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's photo ops during his first month in power and chronicled his alleged campaign successes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-news-now-undermines-democracy-1.4769639
 
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Ontario News Now is too long.

Trump just calls his Fox
 
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I know some PCs that will be very upset to see their party getting into the propaganda business.

Doug Ford was a mistake.
 
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mentalfloss said:
Ford is already losing his base.
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He was never much interested in a lot of the traditional PC principles. As we saw on the attack on Toronto's city government, it's all about Doug (Ring any other bells?) and Doug's need to get even.

The City of Toronto is the sixth largest government in Canada (after: Canada, Ontario, Quebec, B.C, Alberta) and it now has only 22 elected representatives on it. Even the most hard-bitten Libertarian can see how amti-democratic, pro-"big government" that move is. The sixth largest Canadian government is a dictatorship of a small committee controlled by one mean-spirited premier.
 
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Northern Ontario,
Now you know what it feels like for Northern ontario to be controlled by a hundred kilometer strip of population on the south border of the province
 
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DaSleeper said:
Now you know what it feels like for Northern ontario to be controlled by a hundred kilometer strip of population on the south border of the province
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Much better that the one million "up there" control the other twelve million "down there".

That's the spirit of democracy!

You didn't say that you are a Leninist, previously.
 
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Look at this, the solution for the lack of foreign investment. Can this be the logo?


petros said:
It's more Western than Northern.

Toronto is parallel to Casper Wyoming which is 1000km south of me and I'm 150km from the border.
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I suggest a referendum that gives everything within, oh, I don't know, . . 153km from the border to the US to do with as they will and we'll give them a map to the parts that are swamp.
 
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How many locations have you been to where you were, most likely, the first person to leave footy prints on the ground? 'Flat-landers' is an actual term people in the north use when referencing the people to the south.
 
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