In a “news” story this morning on Canada’s agenda-driven state-run media, the CBC (at the multi-gazillion-dollar CBC.ca), the “reporter”, who is “reporting” on nothing except a “news” “report” about why Canadians should vote left-wing, it seems to me, uses quotes from CBC “reporter” Julie Van Dusen as if she’s part of the “news” story. They use her to interpret what the Green Guru, Liberal Frenchman Stephane Dion, just said.
On one level, that makes perfect sense. Dion can’t speak English well enough to be understood by me and lots of other people so he needs an interpreter. And who better —and more gleeful and anxious and abiding—than a CBC reporter to explain the liberal-leftist position on things in the very best light possible?
And in so doing, the state-run CBC continues their agenda-driven exercise in marginalizing the Conservatives’ environmental plans by not explaining them but instead, comparing them to the Liberals’ plans —a journalistic exercise or “mission” or “crusade” they started last week. (It was hideous—read that blog entry here.)
Here’s some features of today’s “news” story, which others might see as an unpaid political advertisement (or you might say “sponsorship”) of the Liberal Party by the state-run media.
Tories ‘frantically trying to imitate’ Liberals: Dion
[…] Julie Van Dusen, a CBC News parliamentary reporter, said with that comment, Dion is trying to suggest the Conservatives are only concerned with staying in power.
“The Liberals feel like they can attack this approach Mr. Harper has, saying it is really just about winning seats,” she said.
“The Liberals are saying Mr. Stephen Harper is an impostor on this issue,” she added, referring to the environment.
[…] Van Dusen said Dion picked Quebec City for his meeting because the Conservatives hold seats in the area. Van Dusen said the Liberals want to make strides in the region.
Let me reiterate the obvious, as I’ve done many dozen times before (I guess I like doing it because here at PTBC, it is, alas, without the usual liberal-leftist “interpretation” and obfuscation and refutation, manifestly because it is not needed whatsoever):
State-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, forthwith, and that notion should be enshrined in our constitution at the earliest opportunity.
(Hat tip and a smooch right on the lips to Jo-Anne)
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