Perhaps Taylor’s intemperate propaganda will be muted somewhat by the fact that he now gets paid to sound reasonable or at least sane. Now let’s see if he can in fact sound sane or if his loyalty is rooted in what Conservative loyalty is usually rooted in – utter confusion and mistaking non-operational abstractions for absolute truths. Blind hope. Fear.aid Conservative loyalty is usually rooted in – utter confusion and mistaking non-operational abstractions for absolute truths. Blind hope. Fear.

What Liberal Media?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/alterman2

Which is the whole problem in a nutshell.

The right wing already has its own media outlets: Global, Fox, National Post, talk radio et al. and cannot stand the sources it cannot control.

Witness the contempt of the “centrist” CPC for the CBC, which is doing a damned fine job what with having its journalistic nuts cut off over the past twenty years (by both Liberal and Conservative governments).

In actuality, nuanced, fact-based journalism is anaethma to a certain mindset (which while not Conservative in and of itself seems to have gathered at the extreme edge of the philosophy).

And no amount of screaming “liberal media bias” changes that.

Wingnut garbage.

Unfortunately the media the US and Canada
are controlled by Liberal elitists. They hate the two venues they cannot control, Fox News, and Talk Radio.

Unfortunately, Conservative claims about bias always rest on subjective judgements such as “giddiness” and how a particular frame is set up. It sounds downright paranoid. In any case, it’s well-known that the corporate media is generally right wing.

I don’t care about bias; I care about good journalism.

Last week when the “Coalition” were signing its papers in a ceremony, the CBC news crew on Newsworld, Don Newman on down were down right giddy on its telecast. As if Canadians were going to be thrilled over this attempted coup.
The CBC own pollster told a different story to a stunned Don Newman on Friday.

We Conservatives see these things.

Honestly, the media needs to put more far-left NDP voices in positions of “opposing” the Cons viewpoint. I’m not talking about run of the mill, ordinary Dippers. I’m talking about the hardcore socialists.

Why? The debate in Canada won’t shift to the left by bleating on about the differences between Liberals and Cons – this is only viewed as partisan sniping. By introducing some of the more extreme counterpoints of the left of the NDP, it will display to Canadians how extreme the Cons are. It will also create a “need” for center ground – which would be US, of course.

Anyway, the Conservative Party is smart enough not to have Taylor as an employee. Rather he occupies a sinecure at the “Manning Institute” (ie. Conservative Party pre-school), which provides him with the necessary distance to claim disinterested party status.

That the establishment media continues to play these stupid games of presenting think tank propaganda as “news” and propagandists as experts is the reason why we should all make sure we don’t spend any money for their “product;” don’t subscribe to their newspapers or magazines and use AdBlock software when you visit their online venues.