A Puff of Absurdity: Media Subterfuge

Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because of the heading and subheading:  “Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England: Nearly half of children in some

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A Puff of Absurdity: The New CPC

Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian MSM. Media is backing him and many pollsters are backing him, and Trudeau has little mainstream media on his side. Even

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A Puff of Absurdity: Google on C-18

 It’s a bill, not a virus.  The gist of it is that it requires American tech companies to pay Canadian news organizations for content that appears on their platforms. The hope is that the law will help Canadian news agencies. But Google and Meta responded that they’re just going to block

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Alberta Politics: The boss is going crazy! She’s practically giving her restaurant away! Plus, big tech is censoring her! 

Premier Smith in a flattering photo published by Postmedia along with its flattering story about her restaurant in High River (Photo: Source not identified, via National Post). Yesterday morning, Internet sleuths noticed the notorious High River railcar restaurant owned by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her hubby has been put

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: Why Mastodon

So why did I open a Mastodon account and why do I think Mastodon can replace Twitter. I started looking for alternatives to Twitter soon after Elon Musk purchased it and sent it to hell in a hand basket. Of course, Twitter’s problems started much earlier than that. As soon

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