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How the media works
An Ad for Global news that i saw today went something like this:
This cop who protected the president of the United States was turned down for immigration to Canada. MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A ROMANIAN STRIPPER. Watch the story on Monday.
........ yeah... talk about unbiased reporting! 
Media is getting less and less subtle about trying to program it's viewers' thoughts it seems.
I can see a ROMANIAN STRIPPER protecting Dubya. 
And who would protect her from Laura? LOL
I can't stand Global news. While the content and coverage might be better the news itself is presented with such bias. I don't watch City TV news for the news, just for some laughs but if I really do want some unbiased (well, with the least amount) news I watch CBC or CTV.
ps. I used to work at the National Post headquarters and let me tell you, they have no love for the liberals. 
CBC is VERY biased.
I find CBC to be the most informative, from the choices we have here.
Leave it to good ol' Global.
I would've expected something hilarious like that out of the mouth of Mark Dailey.
You guys are kidding right? Global might be a bit conservative-leaning but they're FAR more even-handed than the CBC. The CBC is essentially the LPC's propaganda station.
Ya think ^^^^^^^^^
I don't even bother with the news. When I do check it, it's BBC UK.
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| Originally posted by VERTiG0 I don't even bother with the news. When I do check it, it's BBC UK. |
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The trick is to get news from a variety of diverse sources, not just the state-run media.
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| Originally posted by ShadoWolf The trick is to get news from a variety of diverse sources, not just the state-run media. |
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| Originally posted by ShadoWolf The trick is to get news from a variety of diverse sources, not just the state-run media. |
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/web...entity=4&lang=e
http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/htmen/directors/index.htm
This story was just released today. Can you say "Quid Pro Quo?"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...Story/National/
Budget holds goodies for CBC
By SUE BAILEY
Sunday, February 20, 2005 Updated at 6:13 PM EST
Canadian Press
Ottawa � The CBC will get a multimillion-dollar boost when the federal budget is tabled Wednesday, The Canadian Press has learned.
The extra cash will be enough to restore local programs � notably regional newscasts, a senior government source said on condition of anonymity.
Local supper-hour newscasts were slashed in 2000 amid deep budget cuts. Staff were laid off across Canada and more than 200,000 viewers tuned out when hour-long regional evening newscasts were shortened.
Critics assailed the CBC's effort to replace the popular local newscasts with Canada Now, a Vancouver-based show that includes regional inserts.
CBC president Robert Rabinovitch recently outlined a plan to restore regional radio and television content. It calls for sustained funding that would gradually increase from $34.4-million in the first year to $61.2-million in the second, levelling off at $82.8-million by the third year.
�Faced with massive government reductions in our funding during the 1990s, CBC/Radio-Canada was forced to make very difficult programming decisions,� Mr. Rabinovitch told employees two weeks ago.
�But we are committed to rebuilding our local and regional service and this plan details how we would do that, and what it would cost.�
About $930 million of the CBC's $1.3-billion annual budget comes from the federal government.
Ian Morrison, spokesman for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, hopes Ottawa will insist that any new funding must be used to boost regional programming. The non-profit, independent watchdog group promotes improved content across the country.
�We do not detect that the senior management at the CBC, president Mr. Rabinovitch and his senior people, are really committed to regional programming,� Mr. Morrison said Sunday in an interview.
�It's going to be important for the government to earmark the funds specifically enough to kind of hold CBC management's feet to the fire.�
Mr. Morrison said Ottawa must �make sure the money is in fact spent at the grassroots rather than ... generating more network programming out of Vancouver or something of that nature.�
A CBC cash injection was foreshadowed in December when the all-party Commons finance committee, during pre-budget consultations, recommended increased and stable funding, he said.
�I saw that as kind of a tea leaf that something would change,� Mr. Morrison said.
Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for CBC/Radio-Canada, said cost estimates for restoring regional programs were prepared at the request of the Commons heritage committee.
�If we were to receive the money for the local/regional plan, that's exactly what we would use it for,� he said.
A spokesman for Heritage Minister Liza Frulla declined to comment Sunday on what's in the minority government's much-anticipated first budget.
�I will learn, like everyone else, on Wednesday,� said Jean-Philippe Cot�.
The CBC has also asked that Ottawa make permanent a $60-million annual payout that has been added to its federal funding in each of the last three years. And there are ongoing efforts to get back the CBC's once-protected allotment of 50 per cent of the Canadian Television Fund, a crucial source of program financing for both private and public broadcasters.
ok check this shit out....
big headline in the Globe & Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...Story/National/
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| Martin gets pre-budget poll boost |
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| Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals are showing momentum for the first time since their election |
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| The poll shows that Mr. Martin is still stuck in minority territory. Only 37 per cent of Canadians � the same number who supported his candidates on election day � say they would support the Liberals if an election were held tomorrow. This is a drop from the 40-per-cent mark the Liberals enjoyed in October. |
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