Showing posts with label news media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news media. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Tim Horton's has new CUP SIZES. Please tell me this is not what our public broadcaster considers news. Is the CBC going to announce via national news that any company making any changes in sizes to products will get coverage?
Please stop this nonsense. Tim Horton's can spend advertising dollars on this. The company used a very strange method to change the CUP Sizes - they left people to order their normal size only to find out the price had changed.
Please stop this garbage and present news. The coverage on the news channel = how much free advertising?
Come on now all other Companies - do the same. McDonald's can come up with mini Big Macs or Kentucky can create a double barrel meal deal. Where would this stop CBC?
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Keeping the Twit in Twitter - What was James McLeod of the Telegram thinking?
Below is a tweet from Mr. McLeod - a reporter with the Telegram.
This is offensive, intrusive, and unnecessary. James the two MHA's were sworn in.
I will repeat that journalists in this province are going to have to buck up. There are many things I want to know about both MHA's but they are relative to the job they will be doing for us the people.
As you read the tweet - just think of other things that could have been inserted.
"Bennett swears on a bible. Kirby does not use the bible."
Politicians do not have Thick Skin - they have Power - media even more so!
How many times have you heard - to be a politician you need thick skin?
In my opinion they do not have thick skin - they have power and are willing to abuse it.
To make matters worse the media's skin is almost as thin. Try to critique the media and see what happens. Ask Dave Cochrane.
No matter what any of us normal mortals have to say about issues which affect us and are using our money - we are to say nothing or risk retribution in one fashion or another. The politicians and media are not interested in constructive criticism or even reasonable questions about the quality of their work - they are only interested in finding ways to make the criticism or questions stop.
This is not thick-skinned this is "we have the power" just watch us.
How many times during the election did you hear PC candidates say "we need to be on the government side". Why? What are the consequences if we are not? Better yet people - what are the consequences of zero opposition?
It is not acceptable to have less than adequate investigative journalism - and if the problem is the new budget - let the people know. Let us know why you are announcers of prepared government statements or the bearers of tabloid sensationalism like the twitter story. Show us the meat - then we can make up our own minds.
Make no mistake about it - the government and the media will X you out if you open your mouth in protest or in question. They will use their powers to cause you misery one way or the other. You are labelled as naysayers and treated with disdain. Ask Dunderdale how she treats me - professionally? Ask her how she gets to pick and choose the citizens she will talk to? Ask her how she punishes our own people while bowing to Ottawa or big corporations?
How about Dunderdale - opens the House of Assembly and the media do a story on what people think of how their doing.
Thick skin? - NO Power and Arrogance? - Yes Ignorance? The more the better they say. It is bliss after all.
In my opinion they do not have thick skin - they have power and are willing to abuse it.
To make matters worse the media's skin is almost as thin. Try to critique the media and see what happens. Ask Dave Cochrane.
No matter what any of us normal mortals have to say about issues which affect us and are using our money - we are to say nothing or risk retribution in one fashion or another. The politicians and media are not interested in constructive criticism or even reasonable questions about the quality of their work - they are only interested in finding ways to make the criticism or questions stop.
This is not thick-skinned this is "we have the power" just watch us.
How many times during the election did you hear PC candidates say "we need to be on the government side". Why? What are the consequences if we are not? Better yet people - what are the consequences of zero opposition?
It is not acceptable to have less than adequate investigative journalism - and if the problem is the new budget - let the people know. Let us know why you are announcers of prepared government statements or the bearers of tabloid sensationalism like the twitter story. Show us the meat - then we can make up our own minds.
Make no mistake about it - the government and the media will X you out if you open your mouth in protest or in question. They will use their powers to cause you misery one way or the other. You are labelled as naysayers and treated with disdain. Ask Dunderdale how she treats me - professionally? Ask her how she gets to pick and choose the citizens she will talk to? Ask her how she punishes our own people while bowing to Ottawa or big corporations?
How about Dunderdale - opens the House of Assembly and the media do a story on what people think of how their doing.
Thick skin? - NO Power and Arrogance? - Yes Ignorance? The more the better they say. It is bliss after all.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Harper's Stategy - The Media not Canadians are stupid
I give Harper and his strategists credit. They have a new twist on politicking in Canada.
Most politicians that are underhanded, deceitful, and/or unlawful usually rely on the population being stupid. For instance in Newfoundland and Labrador - Kathy Dunderdale and the Willderdale administration believe that our people will simply follow her and them blindly into a disastrous development deal on the Lower Churchill.
Harper on the other hand - intelligent - but a liar, decided that Canadians generally speaking are somewhat intelligent and would therefore utilize the media and competent journalists to get a fair and balanced package of information. On that basis - Harper and the Reform Party strategists - set about whipping the national media - and selling his propaganda to them. I believe that a significant portion of the Harper strategy relies on the predictability of the media in delivering his message.
When Harper won his first minority - he started right in on "paralysing" the media by picking and choosing journalists that would be allowed to ask a question let alone the ones he would answer. The Press Gallery uttered their displeasure quietly and then quickly conformed. That same attitude was evident again on Friday when he refused to answer questions after his government had been thrown out of office by the Parliament of Canada. Thrown out under historic conditions as a result of being found in contempt of Parliament. In some societies that shame would be unbearable and with some molecule of remaining integrity they would remove themselves from office while apologizing profusely.
Harper decided some months ago that the issue for the upcoming and planned election would be the evil "coalition". The man who clearly lies with ease and without regret - carries on with his pitch that this election is about a "coalition" who rejected his government's budget initiatives. Like clapping seals or herding sheep the media almost to a one (there were some exceptions) carried his message to the people of Canada - despite his refusal to answer media questions. The fact that Harper would not take questions demonstrates that he does not believe in democratic principles and is paramount to a witness giving testimony without the other side having the right to cross-examine. Harper acts and behaves like a wannabe dictator - stuck in a country that will not give him unfettered access to that title. That is why Canadians fear a majority under this Reform Party ultra-right wing Conservative leader.
The media of our country might want to step back - remember how Harper treated them - and smarten up. A Harper majority would also change the landscape for the "freedom of the press" concept.
Once again - ironically - Duceppe is doing more to preserve Canadian democracy than any Conservative on the campaign trail.
Most politicians that are underhanded, deceitful, and/or unlawful usually rely on the population being stupid. For instance in Newfoundland and Labrador - Kathy Dunderdale and the Willderdale administration believe that our people will simply follow her and them blindly into a disastrous development deal on the Lower Churchill.
Harper on the other hand - intelligent - but a liar, decided that Canadians generally speaking are somewhat intelligent and would therefore utilize the media and competent journalists to get a fair and balanced package of information. On that basis - Harper and the Reform Party strategists - set about whipping the national media - and selling his propaganda to them. I believe that a significant portion of the Harper strategy relies on the predictability of the media in delivering his message.
When Harper won his first minority - he started right in on "paralysing" the media by picking and choosing journalists that would be allowed to ask a question let alone the ones he would answer. The Press Gallery uttered their displeasure quietly and then quickly conformed. That same attitude was evident again on Friday when he refused to answer questions after his government had been thrown out of office by the Parliament of Canada. Thrown out under historic conditions as a result of being found in contempt of Parliament. In some societies that shame would be unbearable and with some molecule of remaining integrity they would remove themselves from office while apologizing profusely.
Harper decided some months ago that the issue for the upcoming and planned election would be the evil "coalition". The man who clearly lies with ease and without regret - carries on with his pitch that this election is about a "coalition" who rejected his government's budget initiatives. Like clapping seals or herding sheep the media almost to a one (there were some exceptions) carried his message to the people of Canada - despite his refusal to answer media questions. The fact that Harper would not take questions demonstrates that he does not believe in democratic principles and is paramount to a witness giving testimony without the other side having the right to cross-examine. Harper acts and behaves like a wannabe dictator - stuck in a country that will not give him unfettered access to that title. That is why Canadians fear a majority under this Reform Party ultra-right wing Conservative leader.
The media of our country might want to step back - remember how Harper treated them - and smarten up. A Harper majority would also change the landscape for the "freedom of the press" concept.
Once again - ironically - Duceppe is doing more to preserve Canadian democracy than any Conservative on the campaign trail.
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