So...
If it's a video about free speech and discussion rather than provocation, racism, etc...
Where are center or 'left' leaning people? I mean, if we're talking free speech, shouldn't the opinion about it come from all sides, not just Conservative?
Don't get me wrong, some things that people consider offensive shouldn't be, and what some consider free speech, shouldn't be, but this video - unless it's got people from the middle and left in it but didn't showcase them in the trailer - isn't about free speech at all, but rather Conservative types being told that sometimes what speech they do use is hate speech and that's no longer acceptable.
Well I suggest you consider the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That LIE-berals are working hard to ensure that ANY VIEW THEY DISAPPROVE OF.............
is completely and fully CENSORED AND HIDDEN FOREVER FROM PUBLIC VIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy Justin and his loser LIE-berals have repeatedly demonstrated their CONTEMPT for Cdn democracy by their relentless campaign to limit free speech and thus substantially reduce the number of comments that are critical of multiple LIE-beral FAILINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
The government just made its toxic media bailout plan even worse
By Andrew Potter. CBC news.
Published: May 24, 2019
The government's panel will be staffed by pretty much the same legacy news organizations and vested interests that have spent the last three years demanding the government bail them out in the first place!
(Yes! Main stream news media is STARVING for lack of readers an viewers!! And yet the revamped CBC “The National” news show HAS LOWER RATINGS NOW than before the revamp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The CBC position is NOT AIDED by its deliberate censorship of Cdn views that are HOSTILE to LIE-beral Socialist Screwups and Bigots!! CBC was CAUGHT OUT during the 2015 election - using a DELIBERATELY WRONG interpretation of so called “fair use” policy to REFUSE to let us hear political comment that CBC civil service union HOGS did not like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And now- Our idiot Boy Justin has formed a new advisory committee staffed by - among others- representatives of rabidly anti Conservative UNIFOR union HOGS who just happen to represent 11,000 unionized journalists!! The LIE-beral FIX is IN as the committee decides who LIE-berals TRUST enough to receive some of the $600 million dollars in bribe money LIE-berals have set aside “for news media THEY TRUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The news release put out Wednesday by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez begins well: "The Government of Canada understands that for a democracy to function properly, it needs to have solid, independent news media."
If only he had stopped there. But instead, the release goes on for another 700 words to outline a plan whose principal effect will be to undermine the independence of the news media.
The purpose of the release was to announce the plan for the "independent panel of experts" who will be tasked with helping figure out the toughest part of the government's $600 million bailout of the print news business: namely, who should be eligible for the money?
Making a list of State Approved Media Outlets For Purposes of Getting Public Money was always going to be a Pravda-y sort of business.
(As I have said before- Our idiot Boy Justin is an aspiring SOVIET DICTATOR!!!
So why should he not be ENTITLED to a Soviet news media and PROPAGANDA machine funded by tax payers?? And to HELL with Free Speech and democracy!!!
LIE-berals thin they are ENTITLED to dispense THEIR VERSION at THEIR CONVENIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The general expectation was the Liberals would follow their established script for these sorts of things and find a widely respected and reasonably non-partisan public figure to head it up. Maybe a former governor general or retired Supreme Court justice could be cajoled into doing it, though a former newspaper publisher or head of a journalism school might do in a pinch. In any event, the icky politics of the gig would be laundered through some eminence's reputation.
It boggles the mind that the Liberals have chosen this route in helping them decide who will be eligible for the money.
(Sadly the SOVIET LIE-berals SWINE have NO shame and no morals either!!!!!!)
Instead, Rodriguez has handed deciding the membership of the panel over to eight associations, a group that includes News Media Canada (a newspaper industry lobby group), a handful of press councils and professional organizations, and two media unions including Unifor, an organization whose leadership has actively campaigned essentially on behalf of the Liberals.
(LIE-berals have been closing their eyes to the GROSS CONFLICT OF INTEREST that civil service union HOGS have been engaged in for decades!!!!
The HOGS have been making a mockery of election spending rules by PRETENDING to be an independent third party simply enjoying free speech!! But that is a HOG LIE!! Firstly the HOGS have been working hand in glove with LIE-berals- selling HOGH votes in exchange for LIE-beral gravy at OUR EXPENSE!!)
(If some corporate CEO offerd his workers a pay raise in exchange for getting Conservative candidates elected we KNOW the HYPOCRITE LIE-berals would SCREAM for CEO JAIL TIME!! Yet LIE-berals believe they are ENTITLED to such discriminatory behaviour from HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And what should we make of the recently written off $2.8 BILLION DOLLARS in unrecoverable loans to General Motors and Chrysler Corp - BOTH of whom employ huge numbers of UNIFOR Members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And UNIFOR leaders Jerry Diaz has been openly and savagely HOSTILE to the Doug Ford govt for not doing more to “save General Motors” for those UNIFOR HOGS!!! Whose employers just got that $2.8 billion dollar “loan” CANCELLED!! How much would it cost to save GM?? MORE than we could ever afford and yet Diaz wants to paint Ford as the bad guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
That is, the panel will be staffed by pretty much the same legacy news organizations and vested interests that have spent the last three years demanding the government bail them out in the first place.
Each organization is invited to name a member to the panel, and that member's job will be to advise the minister on the eligibility criteria for the tax measures in order to ensure that they are "efficient, transparent and fair."
(Meaning the same set of HOGS who gave us “Working Family Coalition” and tried to suggest that Ontari-owe would fall apart if they did not get more gravy are now orchestrating a MEDIA CAMPAIGN against Conservatives!!! Using $600 million dollars of OUR TAX REVENUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The rationale that the news release gives for the choice of these groups is that they "represent the majority of Canadian news media publishers and journalists" — but this only underscores how bizarre it is. When handing out public money, it's not normal practice to invite the expected prime beneficiaries of the handout to determine the criteria for who ought to get the handout. Try asking your kids to hand out Halloween candy sometime and see how that goes.
(The UGLY REALITY IS that the new committee DOES “represent the majority of Cdn news media publishers and journalist”!! What the Committee LACKS is any voice supporting ordinary Cdns who have just TURFED OUT LIE-berals and put most of our provinces into the hands of MAJORITY HOLDING Conservative govts in recent elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
If there's any good news here, it is that it is now dead clear to everyone just why the Liberals' bailout package is such a toxic initiative. The news media play a number of useful roles in a healthy democracy, but one that is often cited is the job of "holding power to account." One very common way journalists do this is by pointing out conflicts of interest — in particular, the conflicts that arise when public money is being handed out by people who stand to gain by handing it out.
(And main stream Cdn media IS SILENT about this LIE-beral censorship and ONGOING ATTACK on free speech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
There's a tendency at this point for both supporters and opponents of the media bailout to point to the existence of the CBC as support for their respective positions. There is certainly a conversation to be had about the independence of public broadcasting and the place of the CBC's particular funding model in that conversation. But the point here is not to debate state funding for media or to re-litigate the merits of the bailout — those horses are running free.
(The position of CBC has been SERIOUSLY TAINTED by its behaviour during the 2015 election in which it used a deliberately distorted and UNFAIR interpretation of “fair use policy” to outright REFUSE to air ANY views dissenting from the LIE-beral version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
What is at issue is the proposed composition of the panel, and there is no question that the members of any organization that plays along with this panel are in principle ceding their right to object to these sorts of conflicts of interest. Which is to say, they are abandoning one of the prime democratic functions of a free press.
That is why none of these organizations should agree to be on the panel. Of course most of them probably don't see it that way — people in blatant conflicts rarely do. That is why it falls to the only actually independent national organization named to the panel, the Canadian Association of Journalists, to step up.
In its corporate "aims and objectives" the CAJ describes itself as "the national voice of Canadian journalists" and declares that it "upholds the public's right to know" and supports investigative journalism. In the name of these principles, the CAJ leadership must refuse to participate in this panel.
(Yes- it is that refusal to be silent in the face of organized govt censorship that gets journalists KILLED in third world pestholes!! Let us sincerely PRAY that Our idiot Boy does not get his wish of being a Soviet Despot!! Otherwise we Cdns can expect to see OUR journalists laying dead in ditches with bullet holes in their heads!! That is standard treatment of those who believe in Free Speech!!!!!!!!!!!!!)