In light of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World scandal, the very conservative editorial board of the venerable Globe & Mail writes a lofty editorial on the mess. The Globe feels pretty good about itself. It feels that none of the NOTW “practices are tolerated in Canada”. It’s a fatuous piece, not taking into account the daily distortions and Conservative hackery that comprises Post and Sun medias.
It also ignores its own fawning coverage of the Conservatives, from George Bush’s disastrous presidency to Stephen Harper’s razing of Canada. The Globe & Mail editorial board has been so wrong, so self-serving, so out-of-tune with Canada and the world for so long, that it deserves no praise. Its attempt to differentiate itself from the Murdoch model is joke-worthy.
Reporting the facts honestly is the task of journalism, for the purpose of serving the public interest, of speaking truth to power. It is a difficult pursuit, and a high calling. Extracting the facts dishonestly is a perversion of that calling.
Hey Globe editors, I do not see any “serving of the public interest” in your editorials. I only find pats on the back of your ideology. It’s a way of looking at the world and interpreting it to benefit that ideology. It’s warped and it differs little from what the Rupert Murdochs and the Kory Teneckyes of the world do to tear the standards down.
It’s propaganda, pure and simple. Journalism is a sacred institution that requires absolute honesty and impartiality. When 90 percent of the Canadian media is at the service of the Conservative party, the Globe editors’ blind allegiance to all things conservative is an abuse of that institution.
