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The media is in full scramble. Trudeau is in hiding. The police and powers that be are trying to scare people. And others political figures are trying to get

by ipaddr 5y ago

The media is in full scramble. Trudeau is in hiding. The police and powers that be are trying to scare people. And others political figures are trying to get out of the way. Meanwhile you have families, kids, women all standing around in negative -30 temps. The 7 year old holding a freedom sign doesn't seem like a white nationalist coming to kill Trudeau.

refurb 5y ago
I noticed the CBC today finally gave some reasonable coverage of the protest in terms of the peaceful nature and size of it. It was clear for days that they were downplaying it, only covering “problems” (radicals might be hiding in the convoy!) and in general trying to ignore it. This morning some commentator tried to suggest “Zee Russians” might be behind it. My guess is the international coverage was clearly ramping up, so the CBC had little choice but to join in or else their bias would stick out like a sore thumb. My guess is the coverage will quickly snap back to all the “problems” with the convoy, entirely ignoring the actual purpose of it.
- RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
  Its ludicrous exactly how curated the news from "reputable" sources are getting. Oh, the largest truck gathering protesting the mandate and instead we're going to cover this one man who died refusing to get a vaccine to try and scare the shit out of our population. There are hundreds of thousands of people refusing to get the vaccine, one of them is going to die, its called a pandemic for a reason. I can respect each channel being a little biased, but what we see today is so obviously blatant in its one-sidedness. I've already set my Youtube settings to ignore news from golden age news channels, I dont even want to see that propaganda anymore. I'm hoping we are entering an era of more independent and decentralized news networks, because they are the only ones actually covering the news these days. The big news networks are too scared to go out of business if they don't preach what the money man tells them to, and I'm hoping more people come to this realization.
- fooster 5y ago
  The purpose? To say they’re sick of Covid and the US government should stop requiring vaccines. Oh and to blame the federal government for provincial legislation. These people are antivax anti science antisocial idiots.
- throwawaysea 5y ago
  The Hill did a segment on the media blackout around the truck convoy protest. It’s pretty dark that so many media outlets can all act in seeming coordination with the government and each other: https://youtu.be/ArYtup2o_qU https://youtu.be/ArYtup2o_qU
newsbinator 5y ago
> The 7 year old holding a freedom sign This is always disingenuous to me. Any adults can get their little kids to hold any sign they want... moral, immoral, any message at all. That's not indicative of anything. I haven't been keeping up beyond the surface level so I have no idea if these truckers are only protesting mandates or if they're secretly neo-nazis and worse. But I do know that if the government and media wanted to dismiss a protesting group they're nervous about, what they'd do first is villainize them as a fringe group of either crazy people or hateful people or both. That the prime minister calls them a fringe group is not indicative of anything too.
armagon 5y ago
There's a message going around that one strategy to turn the public against the convoy is as follows, as leaked by a whistleblower: - a police riot control horse (named after Terry Fox, no less), being led across a street, will be hit with a truck - the driver who hit the horse will flee (hit-n-run) - the horse will be euthanized when the news cameras come but the direct participants will be plants. ---- There's also a message saying the prime minister paid a lot (I thought the number cited was "47 million dollars") to hire people to, well, be disturbers at the event. ---- I can't tell if either of these are true. I'd like to say it is beyond the pale, but it just isn't obvious to me that it is. ---- On the other hand, there's a video where the prime minister says, "Now, you sometimes hear about Liberal bias in the media these days, how they're constantly letting off our government, letting our government off the hook for no good reason. Frankly I think that's insulting. It's clear they let us off the hook for a very good reason, because we paid them $600 million." but, in looking it up, I see it was a joke taken out of context (see https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trudeau-media-bribery-fake-video-1.5273163 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trudeau-media-bribery-fake-v... ). It is so hard to tell what is what these days. ---- With all that said, I am not at all impressed with the Canadian media right now. It is downright shameful the way they've been spinning this story.

by ipaddr 5y ago

refurb 5y ago

I noticed the CBC today finally gave some reasonable coverage of the protest in terms of the peaceful nature and size of it. It was clear for days that they were downplaying it, only covering “problems” (radicals might be hiding in the convoy!) and in general trying to ignore it. This morning some commentator tried to suggest “Zee Russians” might be behind it. My guess is the international coverage was clearly ramping up, so the CBC had little choice but to join in or else their bias would stick out like a sore thumb. My guess is the coverage will quickly snap back to all the “problems” with the convoy, entirely ignoring the actual purpose of it.

RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
Its ludicrous exactly how curated the news from "reputable" sources are getting. Oh, the largest truck gathering protesting the mandate and instead we're going to cover this one man who died refusing to get a vaccine to try and scare the shit out of our population. There are hundreds of thousands of people refusing to get the vaccine, one of them is going to die, its called a pandemic for a reason. I can respect each channel being a little biased, but what we see today is so obviously blatant in its one-sidedness. I've already set my Youtube settings to ignore news from golden age news channels, I dont even want to see that propaganda anymore. I'm hoping we are entering an era of more independent and decentralized news networks, because they are the only ones actually covering the news these days. The big news networks are too scared to go out of business if they don't preach what the money man tells them to, and I'm hoping more people come to this realization.
fooster 5y ago
The purpose? To say they’re sick of Covid and the US government should stop requiring vaccines. Oh and to blame the federal government for provincial legislation. These people are antivax anti science antisocial idiots.
throwawaysea 5y ago
The Hill did a segment on the media blackout around the truck convoy protest. It’s pretty dark that so many media outlets can all act in seeming coordination with the government and each other: https://youtu.be/ArYtup2o_qU https://youtu.be/ArYtup2o_qU

newsbinator 5y ago

> The 7 year old holding a freedom sign This is always disingenuous to me. Any adults can get their little kids to hold any sign they want... moral, immoral, any message at all. That's not indicative of anything. I haven't been keeping up beyond the surface level so I have no idea if these truckers are only protesting mandates or if they're secretly neo-nazis and worse. But I do know that if the government and media wanted to dismiss a protesting group they're nervous about, what they'd do first is villainize them as a fringe group of either crazy people or hateful people or both. That the prime minister calls them a fringe group is not indicative of anything too.

armagon 5y ago

There's a message going around that one strategy to turn the public against the convoy is as follows, as leaked by a whistleblower: - a police riot control horse (named after Terry Fox, no less), being led across a street, will be hit with a truck - the driver who hit the horse will flee (hit-n-run) - the horse will be euthanized when the news cameras come but the direct participants will be plants. ---- There's also a message saying the prime minister paid a lot (I thought the number cited was "47 million dollars") to hire people to, well, be disturbers at the event. ---- I can't tell if either of these are true. I'd like to say it is beyond the pale, but it just isn't obvious to me that it is. ---- On the other hand, there's a video where the prime minister says, "Now, you sometimes hear about Liberal bias in the media these days, how they're constantly letting off our government, letting our government off the hook for no good reason. Frankly I think that's insulting. It's clear they let us off the hook for a very good reason, because we paid them $600 million." but, in looking it up, I see it was a joke taken out of context (see https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trudeau-media-bribery-fake-video-1.5273163 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trudeau-media-bribery-fake-v... ). It is so hard to tell what is what these days. ---- With all that said, I am not at all impressed with the Canadian media right now. It is downright shameful the way they've been spinning this story.