Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman highlights the anti-social austerity agenda at work in the U.K. and U.S.: (T)he austerity drive in Britain isn’t really about debt and deficits at all; it’s about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs. And this is, of
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Accidental Deliberations: Guest Post: On Standards of Fairness
Dan Tan offers this assessment of the CP’s reporting on recent polls about Thomas Mulcair’s economic comments: Harris-Decima recently asked a group of Canadians what they thought about Thomas Mulcair’s “dutch disease” warnings. A majority of Canadians responded that they had never “heard about Mulcair’s comments”. Of the minority who
Continue readingImpolitical: An assessment of the op-ed pages of the nation
Left-wing media bias? Doesn’t look like it… From The Sixth Estate, “how guest space gets allocated on the op-ed pages of the nation’s major newspapers”: 1. Business associations, consultants, and free-market think tanks — 21% 2. Conservative politicians and insiders — 16% 3. Progressive NGOs, unions, and environmentalists — 12%
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Sixth Estate Media Bias Project Relaunched
Last year, in the wake of the 2011 election, I ran a project to measure whose voices got amplified in the major newspapers’ op-ed pages, called the Media Bias Project. The result was a conclusion that Conservative voices outnumbered Liberal and NDP ones (but only by 11% to 8%), and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sixth Estate rounds up the party and organizational affiliations on Canada’s major opinion pages. And in case anybody was wondering why our political dialogue so often has nothing at all to do with the public’s real concerns about inequality and instability: I
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consistent distortions
Of course, we shouldn’t be spending too much time watching polls four years away from the next federal election campaign in the first place. But is it really too much to suggest that an eight point drop for the governing party and a near-total lack of movement get reflected in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Fox News Kills Ron Paul
Not literally, of course… but as you can see from nipped and tucked Scientoligist Greta Van Susteren’s year-end look back at the race to become the Republican presidential nominee, there is not ONE single mention of Ron Paul in the entire 7½ minutes of video. Why, it’s as if Fox
Continue readingFUBAR III: Breitbart uses anti-Semitic, Nazi cartoon in his blog
Here’s the version used by Breitbart’s Big Journalism blog, as edited by CNN’s Dana Loesch, used on multiple occasions: Here’s the original 1942 German cartoon: I guess Andrew, Dana and the Big Journalism crew hate Jews. Who knew? So that’s where the right-wing whine of ‘media bias’ originated. Figures.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: WPITW: Fox & Fiends
The late great Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Unfortunately that concept is totally alien to Fox “News” that gets busted in this instance for blatantly misrepresenting unemployment figures on graphs to fit its own counterfactual narrative: As for
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Rick Perry: Lying Douchebag
Here’s the latest attack ad from the Rick Perry campaign: “Can you believe that?” Governor Perry incredulously asks. “That’s what our president thinks is wrong with America… that Americans are lazy?” Hmmm. I wonder where Perry might have gotten his inspiration for this grotesque distortion from? Oh, right, of course…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: OWS – Media Bias at its best.
Liberal viewer does his usual exemplary job of describing the media. Faux News never fails to deliver when it comes to making sure that the interests of the people are marginalized and put forth in the worst possible light. The OWS movement has brought new life into the economic debate in the US opening […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Price of Western Media Complicity – War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Media Lens does fantastic, if grim work, in describing the system we live in. We are insulated from other narratives other ideas, other peoples sufferings. How can a public become informed with no other sources to cross reference? You cannot triangulate with only one point. Media Lens, Al-Jazeera and other alternative news sources provide […]
Red Tory v.3.0.3: Demonizing OCW Effort Gets Derailed
Fox News butt plug Eric Bolling inveighs against OCW for being crazy, anti-American Communists and/or anti-Semitic Nazis – take your pick. With his baseless introductory slander out of the way, Bolling then goes on to trot out a certifiable canard … Continue reading →
Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it’s no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it clear they’ll treat any strike or lockout as both illegitimate and entirely the f…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Five months after the election of Canada’s first-ever NDP official opposition at the federal level, it’s now been declared conventional wisdom that the real opposition comes from provincial governments (who, last I checked, were limited in their abilit…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Fair & Challenged
Fox News dispatched their fatuous cub reporter Griff Jenkins to Liberty Plaza recently to interview some of the dirty hippies and bizarre characters at the Occupy Wall Street protest, but uh-oh, he encountered this guy instead: Unsurprisingly, Fox never aired … Continue reading →
Red Tory v.3.0.3: Protests: Now & Then
The team at Fox News attacks the “radical left-wingers” and “nutjobs” currently protesting the fraud, corruption and lack of accountability on Wall Street (amongst other things the participants see as being horribly dysfunctional in America at the moment). Do the … Continue reading →
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Welcome to the Echo Chamber #nlpoli #nlvotes
Pretty simple idea, really. Opinions, beliefs and ideas move around among like minded people in what is an essentially closed space. The effect can be amazingly powerful just as it can be amazingly deceptive and distorting. President Barack O…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: A vote for the NDP is…a vote for the NDP
Apparently Ontario’s political pundits feel the need to get one more campaign’s worth of use out of their stale old Lib vs. Con spin. So let’s clear things up as to what the ascent of Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP actually means.No, the NDP at 29%…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: How The Australian Newspaper Warps The World of Climate Science
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THERE is a publication in Australia where for every one story you read which agrees society should take firm steps to combat climate change, there are four stories suggesting w…
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