tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post7602907315152393880..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Canada's Story as Viewed by La La Land Could be a Science FictionEmily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-44473343911465408802011-01-20T12:42:41.367-05:002011-01-20T12:42:41.367-05:00I was very disappointed with Martin Short's co...I was very disappointed with Martin Short's comments. He clearly hasn't been keeping up.Emily Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-51184980818078476332011-01-20T11:26:24.416-05:002011-01-20T11:26:24.416-05:00You'll never get news from MSM.
-------------...You'll never get news from MSM.<br /><br />---------------<br /><br />Aspers and Harper, A Toried Love<br />Ties that bind CanWest to the Conservatives.<br />By Marc Edge, 13 Nov 2007, TheTyee.ca <br /><br />Steve Harper and Leonard Asper: Mutually assured ambition<br /><br />http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/11/13/ToriedLove/<br /><br />The likelihood of any limits on media ownership being enacted by the new ruling party in Ottawa also grew scant for another reason. The Asper heirs had moved almost as close to the Conservatives as their father had been to the Liberal party. <br /><br />[Editor's note: This is the first of four excerpts from Marc Edge's new book Asper Nation: Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company.]<br /><br />One senior editor at Global Television even ran in the 2006 election as a Conservative candidate in Toronto with Asper blessing. A new chairman of CanWest's corporate board came directly from Tory ranks and aligned the Aspers uncomfortably close for some with the new party in power. A CanWest executive was discovered helping to fundraise for the Conservative cabinet minister in charge of broadcasting. Parliament Hill reporters for CanWest News proved more co-operative than most with the media management tactics of the new Tory government. <br /><br /><br />"Big media is in the driver's seat of big politics,"<br /><br />said Peter Murdoch of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. "It's clear who the government is listening to. It's not just outrageous or appalling. It's scary."<br /><br /><br /><br />CanWest must quit referring to themselves as a newspaper and call themselves what they really are: an advertising brochure.Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-47231230546341966452011-01-20T09:01:32.539-05:002011-01-20T09:01:32.539-05:00Agreed Emily. And I have noticed that about the r...Agreed Emily. And I have noticed that about the revered Jim Travers. We take what small crumbs are available in the media void of today. I read his column this morning and he tries to tell us that Canada would be in exactly the same position whether the Conservatives or Liberals had been running the show. And there is some truth to his argument, but he doesn't dig deep enough to tell the whole story. He neglects to mention that the Conservatives had already spent the 16 billion in surplus money before the recession and that because of the Conservative move to loosen mortgage downpayment requirements we had to bail out our banks (as you have pointed out and the press continuously ignores)and we are going ahead with corporate tax cuts. A hugely disappointing column from Travers.Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10718661741465590905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-88978980799843319262011-01-20T07:46:01.714-05:002011-01-20T07:46:01.714-05:00In this country we get all excited when Bill Maher...In this country we get all excited when Bill Maher even mentions our poor little country to the north. Now even I have been amused when Bill talks about us because he does have an insight and certain twinge of canadian humour. Canadians do, or used to have a very unique almost "pythonesque"viewpoint and humour about America. My biggest problem, Bill being a celebrity himself, is that he would feel compelled to ask martin Short a political opinion. What does M. Short possibly know about anything? I would be embarrassed to go on National U.S. television and admit to being a conservative anything. Artists aren't conservative. Hell you might as well call up Macarthy's ghost and admit to being a commie.<br /> Short should be ashamed of himself and shut the **** up. He's not even a Canadian anymore I bet. I wonder if he and Tony Clement get together with Goldie and Kurt up in the Muskokas and share a few laughs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com