Shocking I say! SHOCKING!!!! Those commie pinko bastards! Filed under: Canada, Politics Tagged: Media Bias, News Media
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Accidental Deliberations: On late definitions
A day after the Prairie Dog duly mocked corporate-ordered endorsements of the Harper Cons (which should be entirely familiar based on past campaigns), we’ve seen a spate of newspapers falling in line. And I’ll argue that there may actually be more reason to be concerned than usual about the impact
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Biker Gang Violence – Race Just Isn’t A Factor
Filed under: Racism Tagged: Media Bias, Racism, Violence in Society
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The World Bank’s latest World Development Report discusses how readily-avoidable scarcity in severely limit individual development. Melissa Kearney and Philip Levine write that poverty and a lack of social mobility tend to create a vicious cycle of despair. And James Ridgeway examines
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Peter Poschen argues that the goals of protecting our climate and ensuring the availability of good jobs isn’t an either-or proposition: (C)limate change and the degradation of natural resources increasingly disrupt economic activity and destroy jobs. The International Labour Organization (ILO) puts the
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Media bias in covering the University of Toronto TA strike
At a bare minimum, when the media covers a major conflict between two sides – a union striking, say – it should include the briefest of quotes from people representing both sides of the conflict. This is not exactly a high bar to meet requiring the cheapest and simplest method
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Media bias in covering the University of Toronto TA strike
At a bare minimum, when the media covers a major conflict between two sides – a union striking, say – it should include the briefest of quotes from people representing both sides of the conflict. This is not exactly a high bar to meet requiring the cheapest and simplest method
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Media bias in covering the University of Toronto TA strike
At a bare minimum, when the media covers a major conflict between two sides – a union striking, say – it should include the briefest of quotes from people representing both sides of the conflict. This is not exactly a high bar to meet requiring the che…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Real Problem With Contemporary Journalism
The current scandal engulfing the CBC and Amanda Lang has made its way overseas into the cross-hairs of The Guardian’s George Monbiot. After providing a summary, with appropriate links, of the sordid Lang tale that encompasses massive conflict of interest and management collusion, Monbiot has this to say: CBC refused
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Manitoba Grand Chief Nepinak Urges Sun News Media Boycott
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs accuses Sun News Media carrying a decidedly “pro-Conservative anti-First Nations” bias. The post Manitoba Grand Chief Nepinak Urges Sun News Media Boycott appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Media stenography: The CBC can’t bring itself to call Hudak’s plan what it is
If you haven’t heard, Hudak’s so called Million Jobs plan is more like a 75,000 jobs plan, based on an obvious mistake that meant most of his numbers were multiplied by 8. That is the best case scenario, accepting all the numbers selectively pulled from a particular report, accepting the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: New Enemies, New Misdirections
Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising later sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLorey. The letter stressed the need to build a substantial war chest because a cabal of leftist media (essentially all of them – media concentration at its worst, eh?)
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Male Bias – Nope Nope Nope.
The idea that those in control would want media to promote their ideology seems obvious. Let’s examine two helpful charts. Huh, a bias toward white males. What could it mean? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Media Bias, White Male Washing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shutdown – Republican Fail
Bill Moyers on the shutdown and republican intransigence… Filed under: Politics Tagged: Faux News Fail, Media Bias, Nutty Republicans, Obamacare, Republican Fail, Right Wing Lies and Misinformation
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: How to stop a media bias argument in its tracks, even with a Toronto Star journalist
The big myth in Canada is that there is a liberal media bias in Canada. That belief, honed by Canadian right-wing bloggers based on their southern counterpart’s laborious whine about their own ‘media bias’, is just silly, especially in Canada. Look at our national press. National Post and Postmedia are
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Daniel Wilson takes a look at how far too many in the media went along with the Harper Cons’ hatchet job against First Nations: (C)ompare the generalized outrage last week to the shrug elicited by the non-indigenous mayors around the country who have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If the Conservative Media Bias is bad in the UK…
I find it amusing how often people refer to the media as having a “liberal bias”. It is such a counter-intuitive claim to make given the composition of the majority of mainstream media outlets (ad driven, reliant on the government for information). Media Lens never gives an inch
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dr. Dawg tears into the National Post’s gratuitous union-bashing: (W)hen it comes to unions, a careless disregard for facts seems to affect journos like a disease. They fall back on their prejudices, cutting and pasting their ready-made anti-union copy in their sleep.… Unions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh We’re Totally Post-Feminism…
I see and hear this little piece of dudely wisdom far, FAR, too often. It represents such an massive break from reality, and yet this harmful trope continues onward. The usual suspects make their appearances, privilege, misogyny the unexamined life – reasons but not excuses for not being in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: People, Unfiltered By Governments And Their Enablers
A friend of mine sent a video along the other day. Another friend had the following comment: Perhaps a silly response, but tired of Nations being painted as evil when it is not the people but the clowns like Harper, McGuinty and others that purport to reflect values that certainly
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