Harpercon Cheerleading Spoiled Brats…Shut the Fuck up Already!!

It’s getting old real fast, or maybe this is yet another Brother Steve ploy to be able to put the CBC out of business once and for all with the help of his media outlets and pundits.

I can’t believe I must bring this up again and having to do so annoys the hell out of me. Here we go again, with feeling! Most of the Canadian media outlets are right slanted; Harpercon cheerleaders. Hell, even newscasters (which, by the way, as a job requirement, has to be balanced and unbiased; news should always be reported and delivered without prejudice of any kind) like Brian Lilley and Trudy Mason and others across Canada for either Astral or Corus, I’m sure.

I remembered giggling when Jane Taber had  Chuckles Adler and John Tory,  two Harpercon cheerleaders on Question Period, not because I found them funny or Jane Taber to be particularly witty; I didn’t; but, I remembered thinking there are no center, center-left or left wing talk radio ‘stars’ in Canada.  I noticed the cons are not troubled by this. I certainly am, and fellow progressive bloggers, you should be too.

CJAD 800 Am here, in Montreal, only has two hosts who are center-center left; Dan Laxer and Anne Lagace-Dowson respectively. Neither one of their shows are predominantly political talk; their shows mainly touch other current events, life styles,  family, that sort of thing. Although, having been on CBC radio and a candidate for the NDP in 2008 elections, she could make for a good pundit. She would be far better on that Tommy Schnurmacher Gang of 4 panel than Egbert; I can see her not taking the shit Tommy, Kim and Trudy dish out to Egbert on a daily basis.   I wonder if she was ever asked to be on any of those shows like Question Period or Power and Politics?  Are there others in other Canada News Talk Radio like Ms Lagace-Dowson? If so, they should make more of an effort to have their voices heard; I know, not easy when your bosses clearly endorse Harpercon. I digress…Back to the ranting!

I also remember you Harpercon cheerleaders getting all nervous about Torstar buying Canwest papers; oh the horror of  balanced journalism once again coming back to mainstream newspapers. No such luck though,  seeing it’s the old president of Natty Po and his money people, no chance of those papers seeing balanced journalism anytime soon.

About half if not more than half of the Grope & Fail columnists are Harpercon slanted: hello: Blatchford, Ibbitson, Spector, Wente, Galloway, etc. etc.

Do I really need to touch upon Sun Media with the leader of the connie wingnuts, Lorrie Goldstein?

All that’s pretty much left is the Toronto Star, and it too has Conservatives like Angelo Perischilli and Rosie Di Manno. However, even the fact that the Toronto Star even exists seems to be problematic for Harpercon cheerleaders. They can’t really bitch about them all that much as they’re privately owned, though.

Steve and the Harpercons ‘own’ most of corporate media; Steve and the Harpercons have them marching to his drum. Hell, don’t take my word for it, click the link and read it for yourselves.

As for the CBC, the president, Hubert Lacroix is a Harpercon appointee.

They just hired Steve’s former communications director, Kory Teneycke and they have Rex Murphy.   Personally, I’m not bothered by that, so long, of course, Kory Teneycke is no longer on the Harpercon payroll.

Every media outlet publicly or privately owned shouldn’t be right or left.  Each should have an even balance of pundits, talk show hosts, columnists, editorials and opinion writers from every political stripe: right, center and the left.

The news should and must be reported and delivered without prejudice, nor should newscasters or reporters be either hosting an opinion show on radio or TV, nor should they be writing editorials or columns;  in my humble opinion, that just taints their credibility when their news is delivered.

Right now, as I’ve pointed out earlier, most of the  media is in lockstep with Steve and the Harpercons. Remember all those newspapers that endorsed Steve and will continue to do so. This brings me to another point: newspapers and media outlets should not be officially endorsing any political parties.   Given that the media influences electoral campaigns and election outcomes as well as  how the public answer polling questions and surveys,  it is easy to understand much of the reason why Harpercons have such an unfair advantage.

I doubt any of that will change anytime soon, so political parties outside of the Harpercons will have to rely on support from social media, the progressive blogosphere and podcasts.

So, you Harpercon cheerleaders, stop  being such cry-babies over the CBC.  You’ve never had it so good where the media’s concerned.

Yeh! Yeh! Yeh! I know, you don’t like your tax dollars going on media you disagree with, well, I don’t like my tax dollars going to a CRTC that actually allows the semi-shock jockdom of Redneck Ryan Doyle, Chuckles Adler or Tommy Schnurmacher or Kim “let’s talk peeing in the shower at lunch time on live radio” Fraser (yes, folks, she really did devote a show segment to that nasty topic at the height of lunch time, since that is when she is aired)  on the airwaves, nor regulates media outlets to balance themselves much like in the ways I’ve suggested above or in any other way. Once again, I’m dealing with that; you too should deal.