As if proving that they aim to be unfair, unbalanced, liberal-left mouthpieces and exactly not like Fox News Channel, just now I saw another example of the Canadian liberal media’s hideous left-wing bias, this time on CTV Newsnet with anchor Dan Matheson.
As I said just yesterday with my free lesson in the form of a video example from Fox News Channel, Canadian media (and at that time I was concerned with a CBC report, blogged here) should strive to be much more like FNC and provide both sides of stories on contentious issues —instead of just the liberal or far-left liberal or in the case of the CBC, very often a Marxist world view to the exclusion of all others.
On the topic of whether or not Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice knew about the attacks on the World Trade Center before they happened (à la Michael Moore and far-left conspiracy theory zealots), the CTV saw fit to get some “expert opinion”. Normally at this point, you can bet the social program of your choice that they’d have a far-left or Marxist university professor to explain to us dumb Canooks what’s what about that conservative Republican Bush bunch down there in Washington, because that’s what they normally do.
Who did they choose? A spokesman from the Center for American Progress. And nobody else. And they spoke to him for ever. Folks like me are laughing at this point.
From their web site—their “four main objectives”:
developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and
communicating progressive messages to the American public.
Even novice political bloggers, to say nothing of professional and supposedly educated and experienced and serious news producers and anchors—know this group to be a far-left liberal and overtly anti-Bush, anti-conservative biased bunch who are more often mocked than quoted on the internet. They make the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (the “alternative” they prefer being extreme socialism) seem sane.
And that’s all they asked. Just them. That’s balance. That’s who they wanted Canadians to hear from.
And whadoyaknow, the guy bashed that stupid ignorant lazy right-winger Condoleezza Rice, and Bush of course, spewing all the usual far-left talking points that you commonly read on all the far-left smear web sites and zany conspiracy theory web sites and at truck stops. And Dan Matheson, the anchor, just gobbled it up like he was one of their own.
After watching Fox News Channel even for a little while, a person couldn’t have seen that and not have laughed out loud, as I did before writing this blog entry.
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