Thanks to PTBC reader Malcolm for steering me to this example of everything that is wrong with the media in Canada today: this article from today’s Globe and Mail, posing as a “news” article, but which, simply put, couldn’t be more horribly biased.
Nearly every sentence contains bitter, almost hateful, seething anti-Bush rhetoric and liberal-left Bush-hating talking points. Much of it is founded not on objective, factual, news reporting—but rather more on the subjective opinions that the writer has in his own apparently Bush-hating mind.
The very idea that an editor of a “national” newspaper would allow this kind of garbage to be printed in a “national” newspaper as a “news” article, is nothing short of atrocious; it’s actually a little dangerous to my way of thinking, and it has really got to stop. I suggest you start by never buying papers that pose as objective, and yet are clearly pushing an agenda. To do otherwise is to actually become dumber, not smarter or more informed, as you read them.
Let’s be clear: this is not supposed to be or presented as an editorial, but rather an “news” article in their “WORLD” section:
Bush hopes to revive Middle East peace process
Dogged by a legacy of war and failed policies, the U.S. President has high expectations for his first visit to troubled region
MARK MACKINNON
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
January 9, 2008 at 4:08 AM ESTJERUSALEM — If things had gone remotely the way he had hoped, U.S. President George W. Bush’s first trip to the Middle East might have been a victory lap for the man who remade the troubled region to suit the interests of Washington and its friends.
Instead, Mr. Bush lands in the Middle East today planning to claim partial victories and hoping to add a peacemaking note to a legacy so far dominated by war and failed policies.
His seven-day trip through the region will largely be divided into two parts. The first three days will be spent in meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, hoping some face-to-face contact can revive the peace process he instigated with great fanfare six weeks ago in Annapolis, Md., only to see it immediately stall over the same issues that have scuttled every previous American-led peace effort.
The second half will be devoted to building a united front against Iran, which Mr. Bush maintains is an international danger even though his own intelligence services have dismissed claims that Tehran is actively seeking a nuclear weapon. Mr. Bush will visit several Persian Gulf states that could be on the front line in any conflict with Iran: Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Egypt, the seat of the Arab League.
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Apparently able to channel the hopes and dreams of the Israelis and Palestinians who no doubt welcome any help they can muster to secure the peace that they seek, the “news” writer adds this at one point: ”…the only thing most Israelis and Palestinians expect is three days of traffic hell.”
He closes on a cheery note, including this hateful-sounding, raging declaration: “There are no scheduled stops in Iraq, the violence-wracked country Mr. Bush invaded in 2003 in the name of ‘spreading freedom.’…”
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