Liberal Media Slap Down, By A Reporter!

You sure don't see this often, are they waking up?


By PAUL STANWAY

It should have been a good week for the Harper government, with Environment Minister Rona Ambrose talking honestly about the Kyoto accord, and the PM insisting human rights are more important to Canadians than “the almighty dollar.”
You’d think that’s the sort of stuff Canadians want from their government and would strongly support. And maybe they would, if the message wasn’t filtered through dysfunctional media coverage.
That’s a serious charge, and as a reporter and editor for 35 years I take no pleasure in making it. Some of my colleagues will inevitably suggest it shows my own bias, but I’ll let you make up your own mind on that score.

It's refreshing for a respected editor to call out the MSM on their bias. He also calls out some politicians on their hypocritical behaviour:

In a neck-jarring about-face, most media suddenly argued that trade is what really matters in our relations with a country that remains a totalitarian dictatorship. What supreme hypocrisy!
But it’s on par with Liberal environmental critic John Godfrey and the various Canadian environmental lobbyists who spent last week dumping on Ambrose, and then had the cheek to complain she’d used an international meeting for “partisan” purposes after she rather demurely alluded to the failures of “previous governments” to do much of anything on Kyoto.
A fair shake from the media? Only if your definition of fair is a kick in the head.

Thank you, Paul Stanway, I know it must have been hard to do, but it was honest, something that seems to be gaining ground here in Canada!

Our Prime Minister is pulling us up out of the dark, into the light, and finally we are getting a flicker, tiny as it may be, of what great leadership and good governance is really all about! Canada can pull above it's weight, we did it doing all the military conflicts we have fought, we can do it now, when the threat of terrorism is a major problem. We can do it, because we finally have a real leader as Prime Minister, and he has some awesome people helping and watching his back!