#NBC employees argued publicly & privately that their complaint was not w/ #RonnaMcDaniel’s party affiliation but w/her actions.
“To be clear, we believe #NBCNews should seek out #conservative#Republican voices to provide #balance in their election coverage,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Mon. “But it should be conservative #Republicans, not a person who used her position of #power to be an anti- #democracy#ElectionDenier.”
3 important nuances you won't read in headlines or hysterical reactions from Conservatives.
The judge said he would have supported invoking #EmergenciesAct had he been sitting at the cabinet table.
With the information they had at the time, Cabinet did the right thing.
It's only with the benefit of hindsight, which the federal cabinet did not have, that the judge determines they erred.
Invoking the Act in #Ottawa & #Ontario was proper. He merely disputes invoking it nation-wide.
@gemelliz You are our #DanielDale. #MuchRespect Thank you for posting such invaluable info. Most read the headlines only and our #FourthEstate does not provide factual info to allow readers to reach informed conclusions. Key facts are left out or replaced with innuendo that borders on slander and outright lies. #CdnMediaFailsMiserably
"Invoking the Emergencies Act would not have been necessary in Feb. 2022 had #Ottawa Police & the #Ontario government taken action to prevent a foreign funded Far Right mob from occupying & terrifying Ottawa.
The mob waved Nazi flags, harassed residents, & advocated revolution."
@gemelliz@GeoffyPJohnston Exactly. I doubt any Ottawa resident considered it unconstitutional & unreasonable. Even having #PierrePoilievre deliver timbits didn’t soften their stance. Even the majority of Canadians, agreeing with the vaccine mandate, didn’t soften their stance. Hot tubs, booze, honking, disruption, those were the weapons they used. And our #FourthEstate merrily trots along, parroting whatever #cons blather. Offering no advocacy for citizens impacted by the #Freedumb convoy
@Snowshadow#CTVNews shows how to promote, validate and support voting rights. Nothing says “I value your vote better” than presuming to #CTVSplain to readers what is going to motivate us as Canadians to vote in the next election. It certainly won’t be our ability to reason and discriminate and use our intelligence to gather facts before we form an opinion. #CTV has it all figured out. Corporate #FourthEstate has lost legitimacy.
Seems #CdnMedia has completely lost interest in updating us on #FreedumbConvoy trial. Maybe we should ask #PierrePoilievre to pick up some timbits. Media covered his first delivery of Timbits. In fact, that fascinated them more than the issues involved. Typical. Our #FourthEstate has gone the way of the #NationalInquirer, peddling trash.
@NMBA@CBCNews@cbcnewsedmontonbot@CBC has lost all legitimacy. It no longer qualifies as #FourthEstate, it no longer advocates, it disinforms, misinforms and offers nothing but bias and false narrative. Even when the reports are close to factual, @CBCNews omits key details that would allow readers to form their own conclusions. And we have #ChairmanHarper to thank for selling Canadian cultural assets & welcoming #FourthEstateFilth on Canadian soil.
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-bankruptcy-b8e8377dcc45df5f2938ff547228328f How #FourthEstate misleads. Headline states: “Alex Jones offers to pay $55 million ….” It implies Alex is being “fair” and “sincere” when in fact, he’s the same slanderous slob he’s always been. The headline should read: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 Billion for his false & cruel claims that Sandy Hook was staged & parents were “crisis actors”. But he’s trying to weasel his way out.
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin just said (on Threads) that last night's results show that 90% of political reporting is garbage.
That's because 90% of "coverage" is speculation and opinion. An email from the NYT "The Tilt" assured me that it was a good night for Democrats but that doesn't mean anything for 2024.
Rubbish.
Elections tell us how voters feel. Polls do not and pundits do not.
@mastodonmigration@Teri_Kanefield They would be better served to present the facts, untainted by their bias. All they’re accomplishing is the destruction of the legitimacy of our #FourthEstate. What we’re left with is #FourthEstateFilth. And it ain’t a pretty sight.
#cdnmedia#Postmedia would love us to decide the law based on popular opinion. Do we feel that our #CdnPM should have expelled the Indian diplomat? Here are the breaking news headlines: “India expels Cdn diplomat”. “Canada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions”. Imagine if the #FourthEstate actually provided factual information on current affairs instead of trying to win the #FourthEstateFilth trophy of the month.
@RadicalGraffiti We need this in Canada. The food cartel in this country led by Galen Weston Jr., Michael Medline and Eric La Flèche have spoken and told us that they are not making excessive immoral profits. #FourthEstate#CdnMedia#Postmedia oh look, belly button lint.
The Right's #Fascistic war on the #FourthEstate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas #Newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a dangerous precedent was set.
The manslaughter murder of the vibrant elder, 98 year old Kansas woman #journalist#JoanMeyer who’s Newspaper was RAIDED (perhaps bc, restaurant owner Kari Newel didn’t want the sordid truth out) has historical context in the 1836 murder of #antislavery journalist, the young #ElijahPLovejoy
Dear journalists: Please please please do not simply quote team Trump's latest lies -- in this case, the fantasy that the latest indictment is a "free speech" issue -- as one side of a dispute.
What will it take for Big Journalism to realize that our democracy is in serious jeopardy? What will it take for the craft to stand up in support of democracy?
At this point it's fair to worry that nothing will get journalists to move very far away from business as usual -- even with so much at stake.