… so Levant and the rest of those pseudo-journos should shut their hypocritical traps about the CBC. Nice to see the MotherCorp fight back. Get The Facts October 19, 2011 What Quebecor won’t tell you about its attacks on the public broadcaster For more than three years, Quebecor has been using its newspapers, and more […]
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base of support. What is needed now, I believe, is to further clarify and…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Link away as much as you want, sez SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has handed the blog world a big victory. Writing for a unanimous Court in Crookes v. Newton, Justice Rosalie Abella wrote that merely providing a hyperlink to a definitively or potentially defamatory websit…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Europe versus North America on Dawkins
Two talk shows, two very different levels of discourse. The Late Late Show from Ireland. Bill Mahr on HBO. Draw your own conclusions, but one can see why one should be worried about the state of affairs on this side of the pond. Filed under: Media Tagged: Cultural Differences, Richard Dawkins, […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Grapes admits he was wrong, but is it enough?
A week after his half-hearted “apology” Don Cherry tried Take Two. This time he actually said, “I was wrong.” He also attacked a current player for doing a mocking “nighty-night” pantomine after taking out an opposing play…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates – Press Release
I sent this to various Saskatchewan media yesterday. It appeared in part in the Star Phoenix and Leader Post. This province has had its laws constructed and maintained over the last 20 years by the NDP (coalition w/Liberals), and Sask Party. To exclude other parties from the debate on TV is to only give the […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates – PROTEST!
October 14, 2011 Friday 5:30 p.m. in front of CBC Saskatchewan, Broad St., Regina, SK Help me take back control of our political system from media executives who pre-package our political choices. Democracy belongs to the people, not to CBC, CTV, or Global big-wigs. If Link or Yens and other NDP candidates show up to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Debate Injustice
It’s going to be a busy week for protesting injustice. On Saturday the Occupy Regina protest is underway, and now on Friday evening I’m again organizing a protest in front of CBC. Last time was for the federal election’s anti-democratic debate format that excluded (subsequently elected) Green Party leader Elizabeth May from the Broadcast Consortium’s […]
DeSmogBlog: Robert Bryce – The Media’s Industry-Funded Go-To Guy
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Robert Bryce, a fellow at the dirty industry-funded Manhattan Institute, is under increasing scrutiny as media outlets continue to use him as an “expert” on e…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Herman Cain’s 9,9,9 plan, concision, and the rest of the GOP nomination field
One of the problems with the mass media is the need for concision; that is, the need to be able to explain oneself within the very short periods of time one gets on TV (and other mediums). One is thus constrained to only saying very simple ideas or by …
Continue reading350 or bust: “Fox News Lies” Chants Shut Down Geraldo Rivera On Wall Street
Beautiful! Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera attempted to report from the Occupy Wall Street protests in Lower Manhattan on the weekend, but was forced to abort the broadcast after a throng of demonstrators led a rally of anti-Fox jeers. The incid…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Cherry in more hot water
To follow up on my last post about “Grapes”:The three NHL players that Don Cherry criticized last Thursday night — that three retired NHL players, namely Stu Grimsom, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson were “pukes,” “turncoats,” and “hypocrites” for saying…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but has fallen to the spyware wolves. Avoid download.com and cnet.com or lose your computer to the wolves. == And the Saskatchewan election campaign isn’t even […]
wmtc: right-wing editor admits to playing provocateur, instigating violence at protest
We all know that agent provocateurs are a reality, but whenever we are offered hard evidence, we should spread it far and wide. A right-wing “journalist” has admitted to infiltrating a protest group and claims to have personally instigated events that …
Continue readingCRTC Chair Von Finckenstein stepping down in 2012
Laid low with some kind of vicious viral crud for the last 2 weeks, I missed this story. But I think it’s worth commenting on, if only because one teeny-weeny year ago there was so much gnashing of teeth over the possibility that the thuggish Steveoid Government would immediately jackboot von Finckenstein’s ass out of […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: CBC wags finger at Cherry
Looks like there may be finally trouble in the self-built paradise that Don Cherry has constructed all these years. At long last the CBC actually disagrees with something he said, openly. This is in reference to opening ni…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Wall Street protests, Obama, and changing the political conversation
In some ways it is not appropriate to give too much undue attention to the current Wall Street protests in New York that are spreading around the US and into Canada. Doing so deemphasizes the very large amount of consistent and meaningful citizen acti…
Continue readingThanks Steve
I still remember fondly the first computer ever to find its way into the family home. The Apple IIe was magic, allowing these clumsy finger to type badly, then delete the virtual mistakes. I remember Gary Gladstone and myself huddled over the computer …
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