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LILLEY: Let's talk about CBC and their very obvious bias
Author of the article: Brian Lilley
Publishing date: Sep 24, 2021 • 7 hours ago
Toronto Sun
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau prepares to take part on CBC's Face To Face with host Rosemary Barton in Toronto,September 12, 2021. PHOTO BY SEAN KILPATRICK /Pool via REUTERS
Can we talk about CBC for a moment, I mean talk about them in a serious way? There has been a lot of angst over CBC, much more than you would expect for a network that doesn’t rank in the ratings.
I don’t say that in a flip way, it’s just that CBC lingers bigger in the minds of the chattering classes in Ottawa and Toronto than it does in the lives of Canadians. In the week of Sept. 6-12, just three CBC programs showed up in the top 30 shows watched by Canadians – the English language leaders’ debate, Coronation Street and The Great British Baking Show.
The National, CBC’s flagship newscast, didn’t crack the top 30 shows in the middle of an election and none of these shows are CBC-produced programs.
CTV’s local and national newscasts are in the top 30 along with their investigative show W5, and Global has their local and national newscasts plus their weekend news programming in the top 30. The program missing is CBC’s The National.
Of course, for people who have paid attention it’s been this way for years, decades even. You can’t blame the multiple awful reworkings of the show or the departure of Peter Mansbridge — the decline started long before he left.
Yes, but not long after he arrived! During the 2015 election, as Eastern Canada results went unanimously Liberal, Mansbridge was so giddy he was spitting on camera.
The bottom line is that Canadians don’t trust CBC for their TV news and haven’t for a long time. More people watch CTV News at 5, a precursor to their real newscast at 6 p.m., than watch CBC’s flagship show.
Maybe it’s a matter of their obvious Liberal political bias.
This week, two stories hit the news that are related to the matter of trust and showcasing CBC’s bias. CBC admitted they got it wrong in attacking a Conservative MP for sharing a column by my Sun colleague Anthony Furey, and the ongoing debate about CBC host Rosemary Barton.
In the case of the CBC admission, their ombudsman released a report into a complaint by Alberta Conservative MP Rachel Harder. She had shared a column Furey wrote last year about Alberta statistics of comorbidities and the role they have played in COVID-19 deaths.
CBC manufactured a story made up of people opposed to Harder who were outraged she had shared a story based on facts from Alberta Health Services. CBC’s ombudsman said that story didn’t meet their standards.
Apparently, their criteria include the idea that the story has to show the Liberal Party in a shimmering light.
Too often, CBC journalists use their platform to undermine Conservative politicians and policies.
Which brings me to Barton.
While Conservatives have long suspected her Liberal leanings, they became outraged after watching her argumentative, interruptive and combative interview with Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole compared to her chummy interview with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau the next night. Sure, at times she played devil’s advocate with Trudeau, but it was always in a friendly and familiar way.
Her coverage of politics is far from neutral and the public is pointing that out.
Some might argue that my coverage of politics is far from neutral but here’s the difference – I’m a conservative opinion columnist working for a conservative-minded newspaper while she pretends to be a neutral journalist at a network that pretends to be objective itself.
CBC has long had a liberal bent which wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t all pay for it and if they would just admit it. Sadly, we do all pay for it and they deny their political leanings which are plain for all to see.
All you had to do was watch the election night coverage.
Kenny Chiu, the now-former Conservative MP for Stevenston Richmond East, says there was definitely a campaign of misinformation against him and other Conservative MPs.
In a column this week, Globe and Mail television columnist John Doyle put the criticism of Barton down to misogyny and sexism. Nothing could be further from the truth.
CBC has decided to make Barton the face of their political coverage and in doing so are admitting, without saying so, that they are a Liberal network.
Given the $1.2 billion in base funding CBC gets and the extra $100 million per year that the Trudeau Liberals promised CBC in this last election, I would like to say that Canadians deserve better but in reality, the Liberals are getting what they are paying for.
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Andrew Neil attacks GB News just days after resigning as
chairman, comparing it to ‘fake news’ Fox News on BBC
17 Sep, 2021 10:55
Andrew Neil opened fire on TV news channel GB News just days after leaving the company as its chairman, unfavourably comparing the channel to Fox News and claiming it had strayed too far from his original vision.
Despite wishing GB News well in his resignation letter on Monday, Neil had strong words for the channel during an appearance on BBC Question Time just days later on Thursday.
“I had always made it clear it wouldn’t be a British Fox News and I think you could do something different without going anywhere near Fox,” Neil declared, claiming that Fox News “deals in untruths, it deals in conspiracy theories, and it deals in fake news.”
“That’s not my kind of journalism and I would never have set out to do that,” he said, before adding, “I’ll let you draw your own conclusions as to why I’m here tonight and not with GB News.”
Neil had previously worked for the BBC before his brief stint at GB News.
Asked exactly why he resigned, Neil explained that “more and more differences emerged between myself and other senior managers and the board of GB News and rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider” as the venture went on.
“I felt it was best if that’s the route they wanted to take, then that’s up to them. It’s their money,” Neil said, arguing that the route they wanted to go is what “you can see on GB News at the moment” and that “people should make up their own minds whether that’s what they want to watch.”
Neil concluded that such a route wasn’t for him, however, and that “the differences were such that the direction they were going was not the direction that I had outlined” or “envisaged for the channel,” making him “a minority of one” at the company.
The reactions to Neil’s comments were largely negative, with some social media users considering it bad form to talk so negatively about a company he had just left and others accusing the broadcaster of having intentionally launched a “far-right news channel.”
GB News contributor Calvin Robinson claimed on Twitter that Neil had “just cancelled himself” from ever appearing on GB News again and questioned, “Where is there left for him to go?”
“Distancing himself from the channel he helped create by taking unnecessary swipes, does this mean he’s back grovelling to Aunty Beeb?” Robinson continued, pointing out that Neil had implied GB News spreads conspiracy theories and untruths with his Fox News comparison.
Others noted that they couldn’t “see Neil even appearing as a pundit on GB News after these comments,” and described his BBC appearance as an “unmitigated f****** disaster” and a “car crash.”
Lawyer Jessica Simor questioned why Neil had appeared as a guest on Nigel Farage’s GB News show after he had already resigned from the channel if he had such moral opposition to the company.
Neil even received heavy criticism on BBC Question Time. Writer Nels Abbey – another panellist on the show – displayed an old newspaper clipping of Neil promising GB News would not be “woke” and argued that the broadcaster “knew exactly what you guys were setting up,” with “woke” being used as a “dog whistle” for a certain kind of audience.
Abbey also criticised Neil for comparing GB News to Fox News, claiming that GB News was a “very shoddy” platform which was “embarrassing to watch.”
“Fox News actually has very decent production values and very thought through programming. GB News is by no means whatsoever Fox News, it’s actually a very inferior product to almost anything on the market,” he declared.
Politico, which joined MSM chorus dismissing Hunter Biden laptop scoop as
‘Russian disinfo,’ confirms authenticity of key emails
21 Sep, 2021 23:08
President Joe Biden is shown embracing his son, Hunter Biden, at his inauguration in January. © Reuters / Andrew Harnik
Now that election 2020 is long past and news of Biden family’s influence-peddling has been censored, a Politico reporter’s new book has confirmed at least some of the key emails that were previously branded Russian interference.
Reporter Ben Schreckinger’s book, released on Tuesday, claimed that a person who had independent access to emails from Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, confirmed that he had received two of the messages at the center of the New York Post’s influence-peddling scoop last October.
One of the messages allegedly came from Vadym Pozharsky, an adviser to Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, who thanked the younger Biden in 2015 for getting him a meeting with Joe Biden. The other was a 2017 email from Biden business partner James Gillar, which included the line “10 held by H for the big guy?” Another former Biden partner said the phrase referred to Hunter Biden holding a 10% stake in the deal for Joe Biden.
Emails released by a Swedish government agency also matched some of the messages that the Post found on Hunter Biden’s laptop after it was left at a Delaware repair shop, Schreckinger said, citing two other people who had correspondence with the president’s son.
As Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross pointed out on Tuesday, conservative media outlets had confirmed the authenticity of the Hunter Biden emails long before Schreckinger’s book was published. The Daily Caller said a cyber security expert confirmed that the laptop trove was authentic last October, so Schreckinger was 11 months late to the story.
But for such reporting to now come from Politico, which was among the mainstream media outlets that sought to squash the Post’s scoop as the presidential election approached, represents a sea change. In October last year, Politico called the story “Russian disinfo,” citing a letter signed by 50 former US intelligence agency officials. Those officials offered no evidence to support their claim, but pointed the finger at Moscow, saying “Russia is trying to influence how Americans vote in this election.”
Would that be 50 people representing Deep State?
Twitter censored the Post’s reporting, citing its hacked materials policy without having any evidence suggesting that the laptop had been hacked. Not only was the Post’s Twitter account blocked for more than two weeks, but users of the social media platform were prevented from sharing the article.
The Federal Elections Commission ruled last week that the censorship wasn’t politically motivated and Twitter, therefore, hadn’t made an illegal in-kind contribution to Joe Biden’s campaign by doing his news-suppression bidding.
Radio host Chris Stigall was among many observers pointing out that Politico is only acknowledging the veracity of the Biden emails after the political damage of censoring it has been done. “Journalism would have been helpful last year,” he said. “Politico quietly admits, yep, that Hunter Biden story was true.”
Commenters such as Newsmax correspondent Emerald Robinson speculated that the apparent flip-flop on the Post’s scoop suggests that mainstream media outlets are poised to turn against the president. “It really means that left-wing corporate media are getting ready to turn on Biden in favor of Kamala (Harris),” Robinson said.
Oh Lord! What a terrifying scenario. Of course, this was the plan all along.
A ‘Real Muslim’ Tries to Run Down a Crowd of Jews
With His Car in LA, and the Media Yawns
SEP 25, 2021 6:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
My latest in PJ Media:
One of the most striking aspects of this entire incident is that The Algemeiner’s report is the only one you can read about it. Reuters took no notice. Neither did AP. The New York Times didn’t find it fit to print. Neither did the Washington Post, or CNN, or anyone else, including the hometown Los Angeles Times. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
The Algemeiner describes itself as “a global news destination published online and in print, serves as an independent media voice covering the Middle East, Israel and matters of Jewish interest around the world.” One would think that the establishment media giants would be interested also in this matter of “Jewish interest,” but no dice. As far as they’re concerned, Muslims are always and everywhere victims of “Islamophobia,” and stories that depict them as such are the only ones worth reporting, not ones in which Muslims victimize others.
The reality is that anti-Semitic attacks such as the one in Los Angeles Wednesday evening are far more common than incidents of anti-Muslim hatred. In 2018, there were 225 anti-Muslim hate crimes, and 896 anti-Jewish hate crimes; in 2019, there were 219 anti-Muslim hate crimes, and 995 anti-Jewish hate crimes. In 2020, anti-Muslim hate crimes decreased by 42%.
Yet ABC News gave a Muslims-As-Victims spin to all this on September 11 when it stated: “Hate crimes against Muslims rose 1617% from 2000 to 2001, (2001 was the year of 911), according to the FBI marking some of the highest numbers of Islamophobic hate crimes ever in the U.S. But even as the country moved further from the attacks and the Muslim American population in the country grew, discrimination against this community has not waned, Pew Research Center reports.”
This kind of “journalism” is published as Jew-hatred becomes increasingly legitimized on the Left, and leads media outlets to minimize, downplay, or ignore altogether stories that they think will lead people to think ill of Islam, driving the MAGA-hatted thugs of Leftist fever dreams to commit more “Islamophobic” attacks.
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