Imagine the news you’ll get if Notley decides who can and can’t report

[pgs]

Just about everything The Rebel publishes these days is predicated by their disdain for Notely and the NDP. They start from there and spin the news to further their agenda of spreading their own political views. They omit, exaggerate and twist the facts to make the point they want. Objective and accurate reporting of the news is not on their menu, they are a clutch of opinion columnists masquerading as a news source. What's more they are preying on the fear and anger that many Albertans are feeling these days to service their anti-NDP agenda.

Sure, our constitution gives us the right to say what we want, but when we have an audience of thousands is there not some duty to exercise that right responsibly? Levant is targeting Albertans who are in a very vulnerable place right now, and giving them Notely and the NDP as the focal point for their emotions, when in fact most of the problems facing Albertans have their base in the crash of the oil market, a global phenomenon beyond the control of any government.

Don't get me wrong here, obviously I'm no huge fan of Ezra Levant, but he is not the only one out there severely lacking in journaistic integrity. In this day of instant communication any quack with a keyboard and an attitude can make themselves heard, and these quacks know no political boundaries. And the ethical degradation is becoming so pervasive that one doesn't know where to go to find a straightforward, objective and trustworthy news source. I'm skeptical enough that I'll read a number of sources and do my own evaluation from there, but it is cause for serious concern that people will actually consider a goon squad like The Rebel as a reputable news source. It means there are a lot of people out there basing important decisions on bad information.

Yes but change the words NDP with conservative and rebel with Toronto Star ,Huffington post ,CBC or and especially Tyee and you say the same thing .
Why should the Alberta NDP be special ?

 

[Nick Danger]

Yes but change the words NDP with conservative and rebel with Toronto Star ,Huffington post ,CBC or and especially Tyee and you say the same thing .
Why should the Alberta NDP be special ?

I didn't say they were special, only that they're part of the most recent scuffle. From an ethical standpoint, shoddy journalism has become the norm and not the exception, so I suppose it's just the way it is that one has read the news twenty times from twenty different sources and take an "average" to get some sense of what's really happening.

It's not that I don't like The Rebel because they're a right wing outfit, I don't like them because they consider truth and objectivity as concepts of convenience.

You didn't temper it with the fact that it took me less than 60secs to prove the claim you made directly before your statement in question.

I'm still missing your point. What claim are you talking about?

 

[CDNBear]

Just about everything The Rebel publishes these days is predicated by their disdain for Notely and the NDP.

 

[Nick Danger]

Just about everything The Rebel publishes these days is predicated by their disdain for Notely and the NDP.

Okay, I get it now. You're right, Ezra has disdain for people other than Notely and the NDP. He's not a Trudeau fan, nor does he have much love for environmentalists. I'll give him that much, he applies his unethical journalism fairly to a number of causes.

 

[CDNBear]

Okay, I get it now. You're right, Ezra has disdain for people other than Notely and the NDP. He's not a Trudeau fan, nor does he have much love for environmentalists. I'll give him that much, he applies his unethical journalism fairly to a number of causes.

This is why I know you aren't objective.

You can't see anything past Levant.

 

[Nick Danger]

This is why I know you aren't objective.

You can't see anything past Levant.

I've said more than once that the problem goes much further than The Rebel, I'm just using them as an example as they are in the news lately, and they're one of the more obvious offenders. It's not just Ezra, and it's not just the right, in fact there probably more examples from the left as they are generally so quick to play the victim card in order to portray the right in a bad light. Regardless of political stripe, I do have a personal grudge against low morals and cheap tactics. Don't get me started on government.

 

[gerryh]

That is correct. Not everyone is like you. If you'd like I'll mail you some other primary reading materials not unlike Go Dog Go to help you repair some of those neural synapses you fried doing eight ball after eight ball.

and how would playing pool fry ones synapses?

 

[pgs]

and how would playing pool fry ones synapses?

And you are so smart you freely call others idiots .Pepper that sumting I put on my plate .

 

[gerryh]

And you are so smart you freely call others idiots .Pepper that sumting I put on my plate .

Just googled it, and considering I have to do that, and petros seems to be right up on it, then I say that just lends more credibility as to why he is such an idiot.

 

[petros]

I'm an idiot because you had a coke problem? Makes perfect crackhead sense does it?

 

[gerryh]

I'm an idiot because you had a coke problem? Makes perfect crackhead sense does it?

You're projecting again.

 

[petros]

Nope. Words from you going right back at you.

 

[gerryh]

Nope. Words from you going right back at you.

Yup, projecting. It's what addicts do.

 

[petros]

Your problem, your fried brain. Live with it.

People like you are the reason I stayed away from that crap.

How much did you owe when you ran away?

 

[gerryh]

Your problem, your fried brain. Live with it.

People like you are the reason I stayed away from that crap.

How much did you owe when you ran away?

Yes, I'm sure you did. Just like you're a successful farmer, and a geologist, and and and, what ever you say waldo...I mean petros.

 

[petros]

I am and I'm glad you beat your problem. I do owe you kudos for that but damage done is damage done.

 

[CDNBear]

Damn, it's too early for popcorn.

 

[SLM]

It is never too early for popcorn.

However, I am afraid we're going to need a bigger bowl.