I am a grade 12 drop out but I can see and figure out the evil that our Criminal Gang Of Tyrants in Ottawa are doing to this once great nation but why so many highly educated friends of mine think I’m nuts while they continue to stay in the dark by continuing to stay informed by getting their information from the CBC and CTV- what the heck is the government putting into our drinking water?
My own experience with CBC Toronto was coming home from a protest at Queens Park where I estimated a crowd of 2 to 4000 people with a dozen speakers, 11 of them powerful. CBC, I heard on the drive home, estimated a crowd of 400 and reported on the one speaker who sounded kooky because he wanted to arrest Ford and JT.. The reporter completely ignored the Toronto doctor, who said she herself knew of a young man who had died the night before, from taking the vaccine and implored people to report injuries and told them how. I think that was the last time I turned on CBC.
My career was in journalism, the photo end, and news management, for close to thirty years. I daresay there was a time when we would have regarded the trucker protest as major news. I daresay we would have sent our own reporter and photographer to Ottawa to cover the protest through the eyes of Hamilton-area locals who were participating, particularly when the scope and size of that protest became obvious to all. As it turned out, my former employer could barely rouse itself to cover the bridge gatherings at the onset. And all those thousands of people along the routes and on the bridges were portrayed as 'anti-vaxxers' encouraging an 'anti-vaxxer' movement. What they failed to see is that this was no common, ordinary weekend protest with a few disgruntled holding signs and chanting through megaphones. (We did cover oodles of those back in the day too, but not all.) It was a truly historical gathering, remarkable for normally docile Canadians, for which you, Donna, almost alone, have professionally shouldered the weighty burden of your profession.
Thanks for this comment, Ron. I've been thinking about it and I think you've zeroed in on something super important. Had the Hamilton Spectator and other newspapers sent personnel to Ottawa who then cast the protest in a local light, who explained the legitimate concerns of the protesters, this would have HUMANIZED the protest. Instead, protesters were DEMONIZED by politicians and journalists pretty much non-stop.
Had the first happened, rather than the second, I doubt the Emergencies Act, the police violence, or the freezing of bank accounts would have been tolerated. Public outrage would have brought down the government.
The media's failure to do its job paved the way for what followed. It was the behaviour of journalists that made government tyranny possible.
It remains unconscionable and shocking.
I am a grade 12 drop out but I can see and figure out the evil that our Criminal Gang Of Tyrants in Ottawa are doing to this once great nation but why so many highly educated friends of mine think I’m nuts while they continue to stay in the dark by continuing to stay informed by getting their information from the CBC and CTV- what the heck is the government putting into our drinking water?
My own experience with CBC Toronto was coming home from a protest at Queens Park where I estimated a crowd of 2 to 4000 people with a dozen speakers, 11 of them powerful. CBC, I heard on the drive home, estimated a crowd of 400 and reported on the one speaker who sounded kooky because he wanted to arrest Ford and JT.. The reporter completely ignored the Toronto doctor, who said she herself knew of a young man who had died the night before, from taking the vaccine and implored people to report injuries and told them how. I think that was the last time I turned on CBC.
My career was in journalism, the photo end, and news management, for close to thirty years. I daresay there was a time when we would have regarded the trucker protest as major news. I daresay we would have sent our own reporter and photographer to Ottawa to cover the protest through the eyes of Hamilton-area locals who were participating, particularly when the scope and size of that protest became obvious to all. As it turned out, my former employer could barely rouse itself to cover the bridge gatherings at the onset. And all those thousands of people along the routes and on the bridges were portrayed as 'anti-vaxxers' encouraging an 'anti-vaxxer' movement. What they failed to see is that this was no common, ordinary weekend protest with a few disgruntled holding signs and chanting through megaphones. (We did cover oodles of those back in the day too, but not all.) It was a truly historical gathering, remarkable for normally docile Canadians, for which you, Donna, almost alone, have professionally shouldered the weighty burden of your profession.
Thanks for this comment, Ron. I've been thinking about it and I think you've zeroed in on something super important. Had the Hamilton Spectator and other newspapers sent personnel to Ottawa who then cast the protest in a local light, who explained the legitimate concerns of the protesters, this would have HUMANIZED the protest. Instead, protesters were DEMONIZED by politicians and journalists pretty much non-stop.
Had the first happened, rather than the second, I doubt the Emergencies Act, the police violence, or the freezing of bank accounts would have been tolerated. Public outrage would have brought down the government.
The media's failure to do its job paved the way for what followed. It was the behaviour of journalists that made government tyranny possible.