Archive for the Main Stream Media Category


Reuters can’t write headlines

I think Reuters, like many other news agencies in recent years, have replaced their staff with unpaid interns or something. Example: U.S. Army backtracks on gay discharges, no moratorium For two days now I’ve been reading about “gay discharges”, with the most revolting images of drippiness going through my head. Let’s think… they could have [...]

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Student, Grade Thyself

by Art Lindsey III On her Christmas in Washington special on ABC last night, Oprah Winfrey asked President Obama to grade himself. “Good, solid B-plus,” the president said. Explaining, he said, “we have inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt . “We stabilized the economy, and prevented possibilities of [...]

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Says what we’re thinking

Dear Barbara Hall, Chief Commissar of the OHRC: Piss off! Actually, Barbara, let me elaborate: Please take your politically correct, do-goody-good bullshit and shove it up your big, fat, censorship-loving ass. Not really much I can add to that sentiment, except perhaps to point out that much of our press in Canada – nay the [...]

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What the news networks could learn from Twitter

Natasha Richardson, Tony award winning actress, was taken off life support today and pronounced dead. All this after a fluke skiing accident on the bunny trails at Mt. Tremblent in the Quebec Laurentides. For about 90 minutes the words “natasha” and “richardson” were the main trending topics on Twitter. Now it’s “idol” because the average [...]

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Canadian journalism: Death By Irony

This week’s issue of J-Source has a lot of talk about huge layoffs in Canadian mainstream media. It also has a loooong article on that made-up disease (like peanut allergies, post-partum depression and lactose intolerance) – “Islamophobia“. For those of you unclear on your psych jargon, a phobia is an irrational fear of something. Got [...]

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