National Post columnist gets censored for not endorsing Harper
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So all these people who have been shouting the Left Wing Media
should sit down to a plate of crow then. The media has for a long
time been nudge nudge wink wink in the direction of the Social
Right Wing. Electronic Media is much the same and the CBC is
not right but not left either as some suggest. Those claiming the
left is the media now get to see how controlled by the right the
journalists are in many cases.
Censored and the media as reporters and journalists should not
be words on the same page.
should sit down to a plate of crow then. The media has for a long
time been nudge nudge wink wink in the direction of the Social
Right Wing. Electronic Media is much the same and the CBC is
not right but not left either as some suggest. Those claiming the
left is the media now get to see how controlled by the right the
journalists are in many cases.
Censored and the media as reporters and journalists should not
be words on the same page.
"I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy." Sam Clemens (Mark Twain)
- "License of the Press," speech, 31 March 1873
"It seems to me that just in the ratio that our newspapers increase, our morals decay. The more newspapers the worse morals. Where we have one newspaper that does good, I think we have fifty that do harm. We ought to look upon the establishment of a newspaper of the average pattern in a virtuous village as a calamity." - Sam Clemens
- same speech.
- "License of the Press," speech, 31 March 1873
"It seems to me that just in the ratio that our newspapers increase, our morals decay. The more newspapers the worse morals. Where we have one newspaper that does good, I think we have fifty that do harm. We ought to look upon the establishment of a newspaper of the average pattern in a virtuous village as a calamity." - Sam Clemens
- same speech.
Extreme Left Wing Media: CBC, Toronto Star
Right Wing Media: National Post
Extreme Right Wing Media: SUN
Everybody else is somewhere close to the centre. To claim media is generally right is an ignorant statement. But shouldn't expect more from somebody who has become an ideologue.
