This factual news report was produced by an independent, local TV resource and posted on Youtube.
REAL news are popping up everywhere, putting to shame many of the establishment media workers who have become far too cozy with their corporate overlords and the terms of their quasi-indentured employment.
So complacent and blasé are such pseudo-journos, they'd arrogantly assumed that quaint old notion of ethics with regard to conflict of interests in reporting was no longer relevant.
Karma is indeed a bitch.
Hundal's tweet reminded me of the modest yet thorough Lori Martin and the professional manner in which she handled a random PMO-generated information packet that arrived unsolicited at her newspaper, the Barrie Advance.
My co-blogger wrote this about Martin's extraordinary challenge to lazy, *laissez-faire* reporting which appears to have become standard operating procedure. Martin refused to be a stenographer for the speaking points provided by a Harper Politburo/PMO communication hack.
There are still many old-school journalists steadily doing the news gathering and reporting they believe in - though ego-driven *enfants terribles* tend to get all the glory.
Michael Harris is of this calibre. Not a single fact in his best-selling _Party of One_ has been countered, disputed or proven wrong by Harper's army of flunkeys at their keyboards.
Bloggers like Creekside and independent news organizations also hold a wild card: dissemination by social media, which sometimes goes viral. Unless the Harper regime shuts down access with its new legislation that it will try to ram through Parliament to maintain their CPC partisan control. Though I trust more allies like this one will emerge to challenge PMSHithead's autocratic ploys.
Pressure from unfettered media, as well desperate attempts to spin damaging facts that will leak during the election campaign from those Harper's kleptocracy has bullied, antagonized and silenced, could derail the CPC communication strategy. And the internal cracks are getting bigger.
Let's be fuelled and inspired by the model of what people power did in Greece which gained momentum and will prevail.
3 comments:
Awesome sauce, dbo!
merci!
While I agree with all you've said, and the complicity and laziness of many msm journalists, there is a problem here. Namely, how are people in communications-related professions supposed to make a living? If not, there will still be a "bourgeois" bias, as only those who can afford to work without payment will be practitioners.
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