Big fail for many journos who focus on the source of a never-denied accusation instead of the truth of it. Plus! New unnamed sources nonsense and be careful from where you Zoom in
"There, according to author Gabrielle Huston, downtown residents were finally reconciling with the flag after being traumatized by its use during the prolonged Freedom Convoy protest."
Traumatized?
This writer is one of a legion who should be sent home without pay forever. This is the DEI brigade that is being fired in wide swaths south of the border as they provide no useful function or output. I'm sure that words are violence to her but if you got through her writings i'm equally sure that she is OK with Hamas marching from the Sea to the River, chopping and raping as they go.
The whole Liberal leadership contest has been very disappointing. Carney is the choice of the backroom boys and girls and the rest of the "candidates" are just playing along. If the other candidates can't be bothered to make a stink about the Brookfield situation then do they really have what it takes to take on Donald Trump? Freeland says she is ready to fight for Canada when she can't even put up a fight with Carney.
Everyone with the potential to offend was removed from the "race". The harshest comment to date was from Gould who said the others were putting forward conservative ideas to get elected.
Which i guess means that Liberal policies are the kiss of death.
This is no different than last year in the USA, Kamala just said a whole bunch things she clearly did not believe to get elected, based on decades of her previous statements.
At least Gould is open about wanting to go full communist with the basic income.
I agree. I don't know why the Liberals went through the farce of a leadership contest. Why not just anoint Carney just like the Democrats did with Kamala. The result is going to be the same.
Canadas rather inept foreign minister is telling us that in these 'dark times' we need CBC more than ever. To unite Canadians of course.
Trudeaus government ministers are shilling for the CBC. I think it is pretty interesting that the liberals are using more taxpayer money promoting their propaganda arm.
I always appreciate your commentary. And the Canadian media brain trust wonder why Canadians no longer trust anything they say. Also, I despise Gary Mason's takes and this just adds to my dislike of the guy.
I watched the tv evening news on the day in question. CBC and CTV reported that the Conservatives said that Carney said, while Global reported that Carney said.
Yeah, isn't that amazing? The whole point of reporting that "Conservatives said that Carney said (X)" after Carney actually DID say (X) is to sow doubts about whether Carney actually said it.
A certain percentage of the population -- maybe twenty percent -- don't really follow politics, for one reason or another. They're the target audience for such deliberately obtuse journalism, in my opinion, because if even one in fifteen ends up voting on election day it could swing the election.
The perfected form of that weird gaslighting about things that are factually true has to be that jaw-dropping CTV headline --
"Conservative MPs accuse Liberals of being absent from HoC during ongoing tariff threats"
Hwuh? The Liberals prorogued parliament just under two months ago. Those Conservative MPs last week were *criticizing* the Liberals for shutting down the hcountry at an historically critically important time. The headline "Conservatives accuse Liberals of being absent from the HoC" is beyond the pale.
It should have been the MSM that first called out Carney's lies. Why do they have to wait for the CPC to say it and then to have the gall to dance around the issue?
When I read stuff like this it's very tempting to conclude that most of the MSM would rather Canada be a one party democracy like Mexico for much of the 20th century.
I appreciated the insight into the media coverage of the Brookfield HO move. Thanks for sharing the journalistic decline in objectivity while blatantly shaping news coverage.
The media outlets just don’t get it. Public trust in the media is heading downhill, revenues are flatlining and government subsidies are challenging the news reporting environment into running offence instead of staying neutral.
New here, directed from the re-stack by Terry Glavin. I’m one of what I suspect is a large body of Canadians who believe in the value of a national broadcaster as a trusted news and analysis source, and as such are wary of Pierre Poillievre’s pledge to de-fund the CBC. But gee whiz, it’s revelations such as these that don’t make it easy for us. “Bring it home” to borrow a phrase.
But neither do I trust the rest of the so-called legacy media, again for the examples cited here. I have given up my paid subscriptions to them all save the National Post (and that largely due cost considerations, although I will admit they reflect my world view leavened with sufficient contrary opinion to sooth my conscience). And I stick with the CBC, in part from the belief stated above, but also because Global and CTV are just as biased. At least I’ve been watching the CBC long enough that I “know” those people and their biases, and view their “reporting” accordingly. And thank goodness now for SubStacks such as yours, and Glavin, Paul Wells, Dan Gardner, and The Line amongst others to increase my awareness of the backstories.
Oh here we go all….the MAPLE MAGA Crowd believing all the AI and fake bullshit put out about Carney by a political party that has no new ideas at all.
So could all of you please explain why Stephan Harper searched out and then hired Carney to head the Bank of Canada, and then sent him an official Letter thanking this “FOR SAVING CANADA’S ECONOMY” and who was head hunted to over see the Bank of England who had NEVER hired anyone who was NOT British in it’s entire existance.
Grow the fuck up and learn facts! Stop believing everything PP and friends tell you because they are ALL lying and they ARE repeating the same BS that Trump and friends used to get back onto the White House!
And for your own sake look up PP’S voting record. You’ll discover that in the last 20 years he has NEVER voted “YES” on any Bill that would have made your lives even slightly better. But he certainly has voted “FOR” every bill that gave tax breaks to the already wealthy, the Oil and Gas Industry that already get 23 billion dollars a year in federal and provincial subsides that PP wants to increase to 32 BILLION A YEAR , and big multinational billion dollar profitable businesses!
He doesn’t care about you OR CANADA! All he cares about is money and power JUST LIKE TRUMP!
The article isn’t about Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre. It’s about a Liberal leadership candidate who is about to be given the keys to the nation without even having a seat in Parliament.
Mr. Carney is a brilliant man, but to my knowledge he doesn’t walk on water. He has made numerous statements that have gotten him in hot water but Mr. Menzies has shown us that the media environment should do a better job in exploring the TRUTH of these situations instead of forming narratives that can’t be supported by the truth.
No, it isn’t. It’s a hit piece on the liberal party by a guy who is an extremist conservative and isn’t it funny that all of those things about Trudeau during the freedom convoy finally enough they’ve managed to trace back the funding for that and it all came from Russia so if you support what was said on here, you support Russia, you support Trump and you’re a maple mega.,
Mr. Menzies allows us latitude to put comments under his Substack byline. He also has a pretty impressive record in the Canadian media environment over many years.
I would encourage you to look at the big picture, Mr. Menzies does.
Just an FYI, why would you believe any Canadian media when 95% of it is owned by American mutual funds who are supporters of Donald Trump? The best we’ve got are a few locally owned newspapers a couple of big newspapers and the CBC everything else print TV Internet belongs to Americans.
Same reason we “believe” State funded media like CBC. We don’t “believe” any of them, but I’d ask you to point out falsehood in the article you’re commenting on, and if you can, cite sources. This “American owned media” nonsense is dismissive, dichotomous, and only used by individuals who both cannot accurately contradict anything said, and lack the intellectual wherewithal to do so.
"There, according to author Gabrielle Huston, downtown residents were finally reconciling with the flag after being traumatized by its use during the prolonged Freedom Convoy protest."
Traumatized?
This writer is one of a legion who should be sent home without pay forever. This is the DEI brigade that is being fired in wide swaths south of the border as they provide no useful function or output. I'm sure that words are violence to her but if you got through her writings i'm equally sure that she is OK with Hamas marching from the Sea to the River, chopping and raping as they go.
And we pay for this.
The whole Liberal leadership contest has been very disappointing. Carney is the choice of the backroom boys and girls and the rest of the "candidates" are just playing along. If the other candidates can't be bothered to make a stink about the Brookfield situation then do they really have what it takes to take on Donald Trump? Freeland says she is ready to fight for Canada when she can't even put up a fight with Carney.
Everyone with the potential to offend was removed from the "race". The harshest comment to date was from Gould who said the others were putting forward conservative ideas to get elected.
Which i guess means that Liberal policies are the kiss of death.
This is no different than last year in the USA, Kamala just said a whole bunch things she clearly did not believe to get elected, based on decades of her previous statements.
At least Gould is open about wanting to go full communist with the basic income.
I agree. I don't know why the Liberals went through the farce of a leadership contest. Why not just anoint Carney just like the Democrats did with Kamala. The result is going to be the same.
Are the news media in the bag for the liberals or just lazy?
Yes. 600 million buys a lot of sycophants these days…
both
Both
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Canadas rather inept foreign minister is telling us that in these 'dark times' we need CBC more than ever. To unite Canadians of course.
Trudeaus government ministers are shilling for the CBC. I think it is pretty interesting that the liberals are using more taxpayer money promoting their propaganda arm.
I always appreciate your commentary. And the Canadian media brain trust wonder why Canadians no longer trust anything they say. Also, I despise Gary Mason's takes and this just adds to my dislike of the guy.
Yea! You didn’t call it a “supposed “ Freedom Convoy. You have my attention.
I watched the tv evening news on the day in question. CBC and CTV reported that the Conservatives said that Carney said, while Global reported that Carney said.
Yeah, isn't that amazing? The whole point of reporting that "Conservatives said that Carney said (X)" after Carney actually DID say (X) is to sow doubts about whether Carney actually said it.
A certain percentage of the population -- maybe twenty percent -- don't really follow politics, for one reason or another. They're the target audience for such deliberately obtuse journalism, in my opinion, because if even one in fifteen ends up voting on election day it could swing the election.
The perfected form of that weird gaslighting about things that are factually true has to be that jaw-dropping CTV headline --
"Conservative MPs accuse Liberals of being absent from HoC during ongoing tariff threats"
Hwuh? The Liberals prorogued parliament just under two months ago. Those Conservative MPs last week were *criticizing* the Liberals for shutting down the hcountry at an historically critically important time. The headline "Conservatives accuse Liberals of being absent from the HoC" is beyond the pale.
Did you catch Gould saying they may use emergency act to put off election till at least the fall? Trump Tariffs to blame of course.
I had not heard that.
It would be a very, very serious mistake on their part. They'd be blowing up the country. Permanent damage.
It should have been the MSM that first called out Carney's lies. Why do they have to wait for the CPC to say it and then to have the gall to dance around the issue?
Because that is their actual job. You are just confused in thinking that your first line describes their real job, which is narrative control.
When I read stuff like this it's very tempting to conclude that most of the MSM would rather Canada be a one party democracy like Mexico for much of the 20th century.
I appreciated the insight into the media coverage of the Brookfield HO move. Thanks for sharing the journalistic decline in objectivity while blatantly shaping news coverage.
The media outlets just don’t get it. Public trust in the media is heading downhill, revenues are flatlining and government subsidies are challenging the news reporting environment into running offence instead of staying neutral.
Fantastic piece!!!
New here, directed from the re-stack by Terry Glavin. I’m one of what I suspect is a large body of Canadians who believe in the value of a national broadcaster as a trusted news and analysis source, and as such are wary of Pierre Poillievre’s pledge to de-fund the CBC. But gee whiz, it’s revelations such as these that don’t make it easy for us. “Bring it home” to borrow a phrase.
But neither do I trust the rest of the so-called legacy media, again for the examples cited here. I have given up my paid subscriptions to them all save the National Post (and that largely due cost considerations, although I will admit they reflect my world view leavened with sufficient contrary opinion to sooth my conscience). And I stick with the CBC, in part from the belief stated above, but also because Global and CTV are just as biased. At least I’ve been watching the CBC long enough that I “know” those people and their biases, and view their “reporting” accordingly. And thank goodness now for SubStacks such as yours, and Glavin, Paul Wells, Dan Gardner, and The Line amongst others to increase my awareness of the backstories.
Nice piece. I particularly agree that bad journalism, in which we are awash, doesn't deserve public money.
They don’t struggle.
They simply ignore it.
Oh here we go all….the MAPLE MAGA Crowd believing all the AI and fake bullshit put out about Carney by a political party that has no new ideas at all.
So could all of you please explain why Stephan Harper searched out and then hired Carney to head the Bank of Canada, and then sent him an official Letter thanking this “FOR SAVING CANADA’S ECONOMY” and who was head hunted to over see the Bank of England who had NEVER hired anyone who was NOT British in it’s entire existance.
Grow the fuck up and learn facts! Stop believing everything PP and friends tell you because they are ALL lying and they ARE repeating the same BS that Trump and friends used to get back onto the White House!
And for your own sake look up PP’S voting record. You’ll discover that in the last 20 years he has NEVER voted “YES” on any Bill that would have made your lives even slightly better. But he certainly has voted “FOR” every bill that gave tax breaks to the already wealthy, the Oil and Gas Industry that already get 23 billion dollars a year in federal and provincial subsides that PP wants to increase to 32 BILLION A YEAR , and big multinational billion dollar profitable businesses!
He doesn’t care about you OR CANADA! All he cares about is money and power JUST LIKE TRUMP!
Ahem.
The article isn’t about Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre. It’s about a Liberal leadership candidate who is about to be given the keys to the nation without even having a seat in Parliament.
Mr. Carney is a brilliant man, but to my knowledge he doesn’t walk on water. He has made numerous statements that have gotten him in hot water but Mr. Menzies has shown us that the media environment should do a better job in exploring the TRUTH of these situations instead of forming narratives that can’t be supported by the truth.
Facts matter.
No, it isn’t. It’s a hit piece on the liberal party by a guy who is an extremist conservative and isn’t it funny that all of those things about Trudeau during the freedom convoy finally enough they’ve managed to trace back the funding for that and it all came from Russia so if you support what was said on here, you support Russia, you support Trump and you’re a maple mega.,
Mr. Menzies allows us latitude to put comments under his Substack byline. He also has a pretty impressive record in the Canadian media environment over many years.
I would encourage you to look at the big picture, Mr. Menzies does.
Wut? “Came from Russia”? Cite your source, but I’m pretty sure you can’t.
Just an FYI, why would you believe any Canadian media when 95% of it is owned by American mutual funds who are supporters of Donald Trump? The best we’ve got are a few locally owned newspapers a couple of big newspapers and the CBC everything else print TV Internet belongs to Americans.
Same reason we “believe” State funded media like CBC. We don’t “believe” any of them, but I’d ask you to point out falsehood in the article you’re commenting on, and if you can, cite sources. This “American owned media” nonsense is dismissive, dichotomous, and only used by individuals who both cannot accurately contradict anything said, and lack the intellectual wherewithal to do so.