Exploding Antisemitism > Who's behind the university propaganda machine? - Warren Kinsella

 

KINSELLA: Hidden hand funds Jew-hating

protests, rallies, encampments

These outside interests do not wish to reveal themselves, but we will not rest until this hidden hand is exposed

Author of the article:

Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun

Published May 18, 2024  •  Last updated 1 day ago  •  4 minute read

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A Palestinian flag is flown as an encampment protesting Israel's war in Gaza continues to stand at the University of Toronto campus in Toronto on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. PHOTO BY PETER J. THOMPSON /Postmedia Network

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If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week.

A Jewish kid was beaten up by a Muslim kid at a Fredericton-area school, and teachers did nothing to stop it. Vancouver artists are being kicked out of exhibits for being Jewish. Canada, for the first time, showed its willingness to recognize a Palestinian “state” run by Hamas – a listed terror organization.

CBC - Fact check farce

And, to top it all off, CBC broadcast a couple “facts checks,” as they called them, about whether the aforementioned encampments – the Infant-fada – were receiving support from outside.

The “fact checks” were so replete with errors, so completely unbalanced, we will not even link to them, because we have a policy against publishing fake news at this organization. Suffice to say that the “investigative reporter” who broadcast the stories mainly relied upon (a) other CBC reporters (b) Israel-hating protestors and (c) an anti-Zionist professor for his sources.

That tells you all you need to know.

So, what is the truth? Are the protests we are seeing on our university campuses, and in our streets – across Canada and the United States – planned and connected? Are they being funded by others?

Well, yes and yes.

As far back as January, this newspaper has published multiple sourced reports about “pro-Palestine” protestors getting paid to protest, from Victoria to Montreal. We have documented that self-styled “progressive” organizations here and in the U.S. are using their non-profit status to pass along millions to those who despise Jews and the Jewish state. It’s all right there in Google, by us and other news organizations.

But perhaps CBC can’t afford Google. Perhaps, too, they didn’t see a bombshell lawsuit that was commenced earlier this month – and well before CBC broadcast their fake news reports – in the Virginia’s District Court. It wasn’t hard to find. We certainly found it, within minutes.

That lawsuit, all 49 pages of it, lays out in granular detail the way in which the anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP, which isn’t as active in Canada) and the pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP, which assuredly is, with 200 chapters here and around the globe) “serve as Hamas’ propaganda divisions” in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere.

In Canada, some SJP chapters have taken slightly different names, like Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). But they’re all branches of the same poisonous tree – about which the Anti-Defamation League has said: “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of the organization’s campus chapters explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians… SJP chapters issue pro-Hamas messaging and/or promote violent anti-Israel messaging channels.”

So, SJP is here and they are very active on campuses – and they help oversee just about every anti-Semitic protest in this country.

What does the lawsuit say about them? And who is suing them, and for what?

The lawsuit is brought by young people, mainly, who somehow survived the slaughter at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, or the mass-murder of innocents at Kibbutz Holit on the same terrible day. Fifteen people were killed at the kibbutz, Israelis and non-Israelis alike. At Nova, the site of the worst atrocities on that day, 364 mainly young people were killed.

Their lawsuit against SJP and AMP is a legal work of art, basically. It is a thing of beauty. It meticulously and surgically lays out the ways in which SJP and its allied organizations “provide on-campus management and control hundreds of university chapters of SJP.” Why? “To operate a propaganda machine for Hamas and its affiliates across campuses.”

The legal action has been brought by five of some of the biggest and best law firms in the United States. It seeks a jury trial, and unspecified damages for the plaintiffs.

To date, representatives of SJP and AMP have not responded to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuit.

In the statement of claim, the victims write: “[SJP and its affiliates] provide ongoing, continuous, systematic and material support for Hamas its affiliates … by operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”

It’s all right there, page after page of it. The allegations haven’t been tested in court yet. But would it have killed CBC to, say, reach out to someone involved in the lawsuit and try and get both sides of the story?

Apparently. Perhaps they were too busy counting their taxpayer-funded bonuses to, you know, go out and do some real reporting.

No matter. The rest of us know the truth: the Jew-hating protests, rallies and encampments we are seeing are funded, in whole or in part, by outside interests who do not wish to reveal themselves. They are the hidden hand.

But the rest of us will not rest until the hidden hand is exposed.

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The Media is the Message > The Godlessness of the Foes of Israel Exhibited in Canada's CBC

 

Canada: CBC charged with actively suppressing

news items that are critical of foes of Israel

APR 5, 2024 9:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is bankrolled by Canadian taxpayers. Its objectivity has been questioned in light of the 1.4 billion dollars it receives annually from the government.

The story not only reveals suppression of truth at the CBC, but also a work environment which fosters antisemitism.

Israel is engaged in existential war; does this revelation about the CBC also suggest pro-Hamas sympathies? After all, “there exists a covert internal group overseeing CBC’s coverage of Israel, and that stories that are critical of the anti-Israel side are being actively suppressed? That’s news.”

Covert internal group oversees CBC’s coverage of Israel

by Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun, April 3, 2024:

Warren Kinsella was deeply involved in the Liberal Party of Canada for more than 20 years until Trudeau came on the scene.

Canada’s state-funded national broadcaster has a secretive committee to oversee the network’s reporting on Israel — presumably to provide balance.

But Jews who work at the CBC say the network’s coverage isn’t balanced. At all.

Said one: “It’s depressing, I am afraid to speak up because I hear stories about my colleagues getting reprimanded. I feel like I am bashing my head against the wall.”

Another: “Jewish journalists aren’t being listened to. When ideas are being pitched, it falls on deaf ears. (Our) stories are being ignored.”

Now, the suggestion that Canada’s state-funded broadcaster has been less-than-fair to Israel, before and after the horrors of Oct. 7, isn’t particularly news. CBC refuses to describe the terrorist group Hamas as terrorists; it routinely accepts unverified casualty counts that come from Hamas; and, to cite just one example, it has refused — unlike other major media organizations — to apologize for falsely accusing Israel of bombing a hospital in Gaza City and killing hundreds.

For most Jews, CBC’s ongoing coverage of Israel can be fairly described by the Honest Reporting watchdog:

“CBC News provides one-sided smears of Israel.”

The notion that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tilts against Israel isn’t news, as noted. But the revelation that there exists a covert internal group overseeing CBC’s coverage of Israel, and that stories that are critical of the anti-Israel side are being actively suppressed? That’s news.

Consider these appalling facts from Jews who work within CBC:

— CBC News Network has not put the IDF on the air since before 2024.

— One anchor has been posting very anti-Israel posts on social media – behind a wall, so only a select few can see it.

— There’s no tracking of CBC coverage on perspectives — nor who is being put on the air…….

Antisemitism and godlessness

This is no surprise to anyone paying attention, though I have abandoned monitoring CBC News for more than a year now. I have come to the conclusion that most antisemites have one thing in common - they don't believe in God. CBC is as godless as any organization can be. 

How does that explain Islam's hatred for Jews? It's easy, Islam is and has always been jealous of the Jewish relationship with God. In fact, that goes all the way back to Isaac and Ishmail, millenia before Mohammed. It was out of jealousy, I believe, that Mohammed created his god, Allah. Muslim faith in Allah is faith in a god who doesn't exist, and so, Islam is basically godless.

 

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The Media is the Message > CBC and Trudeau's Hyperbolic responses to Twitter designation is laughable

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Canada’s CBC quits Twitter in protest over ‘government-funded media’ tag

APR 18, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

Elon Musk created a big stir when Twitter placed the label of “government-funded media” on Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). CBC’s response was to quit Twitter — or, as CBC itself more gently put it, to “pause Twitter.” CBC spokesman Leon Mar said in a statement:

Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way.

But the broadcaster really is heavily government-funded, and everyone knows it. Nonetheless, CBC wasn’t happy about its new label, which caused its executives discomfort and embarrassment. The news spread fast across Canada and around the world. Jordan Peterson mocked the CBC:

According to the Associated Press, CBC sent a letter to Twitter “asking the company to re-examine the designation.” Elon Musk then tweeted this, given the dispute about what exact percentage of CBC money is from public funds:

Not too long ago, Twitter gave voice to Leftists who relentlessly savaged and canceled their political opponents on the Right, and participated in that cancellation itself, banning even the president of the United States at the time, Donald Trump, while allowing the likes of Ayatollah Khamenei and the Taliban to tweet freely. The platform was even enforcing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.

But that was before Elon Musk took over. Musk has been upsetting Leftists who once enjoyed the benefits of cancel culture on Twitter.

The inconvenient truth for the CBC is that a large segment of the Canadian population has long bemoaned being forced to pay their taxes for a government-funded media outlet that is obviously biased. Yet the broadcaster coasted along with ease as it enjoyed its reliable, hefty annual government income, while other media vied for market share in a highly competitive environment. A 2021 Toronto Sun title said it all: “Let’s talk about CBC and their very obvious bias.” It began:

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.

CBC was never burdened to rank in the ratings because it’s government funded. In 2021-22, the CBC received over than $1.2 billion in Government funding — a waste, doled out to programming that has been woefully lacking in the fair Canadian content about which it boasts. It gets roughly the same amount each year. Another Toronto Sun article in 2020 highlighted one public grievance among many:

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected on a promise to increase CBC’s base funding by $150 million a year. That promise has been met and I’m sure Trudeau will soon be considering more money for his favourite news and media outlet.

Unless you’re a Liberal, you don’t get real substance from the CBC; you get activist media indoctrination. CBC just isn’t balanced. One could argue that other mainstream media outlets show bias as well, but when taxpayers are paying for it, it’s a whole other story. Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the official opposition party, the Conservatives, has made no secret of his plans to defund the CBC. In fact, the Conservatives have posted an online petition calling for the broadcaster to be defunded. According to a National Post article:

Chants of “defund the CBC!” have occasionally greeted Poilievre at his rallies. Under Poilievre’s tenure, the Conservative Party’s official website even maintains an official “Defund the CBC” petition. “We call on this Liberal government to defund the CBC to save taxpayer dollars and ensure a free and competitive press in the Canadian media landscape,” it reads.

Of course such demands are a gesture to highlight an issue. One cannot expect that Trudeau would shoot himself in the foot and actually defund the CBC.

In 2022, CBC TV and radio producer Tara Henley wrote an article in the National Post: Why I quit the CBC. Henley’s public departure from the CBC was the astonishing part, not her accusations about the government-funded broadcaster. She stated:

To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity.

Most Canadians already knew that, but having Henley say it took it to a whole new level.

CBC has also been featured on Jihad Watch for its provocative and harmful bias:

• Canada: Taxpayer-funded CBC puts jihad murderer Omar Khadr on its Easter Sunday show
• Canada: Muslima once featured in CBC hijab diversity ad now arrested for trying to join the Islamic State
• CBC gives Muslim carte blanche coverage in upcoming discrimination lawsuit against CSIS
• CBC says Muslims “fear scapegoating” after Muslim migrant murders Canadian girl 

Added to the hype created by Elon Musk’s tweet to his 135.5 million followers comes more news about a CBC reporter who felt quite at home bashing white people. Anam Latif is alleged to have violated an ethics code that “‘requires staff to maintain professional decorum’ in their use of social media, even when they are acting in a personal capacity on social media.” Latif  engaged “in a public campaign” against “all white editors” in another news outlet, The Record. As the Western Standard reports: “Latif, a self-identified Pakistani-Canadian Muslim, accused The Record of discrimination through a series of tweets and complaints filed with the Media Council.”

One of her tweets in February uses the “Islamophobia” canard to slam The Record for publishing a perfectly reasonable comment about immigrant assimilation, which every country expects except Western woke countries that despise their traditions and ignore Western culture’s laudable evolution, belying the fact that migrants are willing to risk life and limb to enter, even illegally.

Latif may have crossed an ethical line, but her general anti-white views and fixation on “Islamophobia” are not at odds with the CBC culture.

While the CBC may try to run from its Elon Musk Twitter label, it can’t hide from the truth that every Canadian knows, even while its minions seek to exonerate it. In the meantime, the Twittersphere is just a little bit lighter in the absence of one less woke government broadcaster.

Trudeau's response is just as hyperbolic - blaming the Opposition Leader of breaking up Canada. Trudeau knows that CBC is government funded to the tune of Billions of dollars, not to mention the hundreds of millions he arranged for news media that produce Trudeau-friendly reports regardless of what he has done.

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The Media is the Message > Project Veritas Wins Against NYT; BBC's Anti-Semitism Confirmed? CBC Reporter Burns Her Bridges

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Project Veritas wins lawsuit against New York Times

A judge has directed the New York Times to return internal documents belonging to Project Veritas that were cited by the paper in an article last month. The report had sparked allegations that the FBI was behind the memos’ leak.

FILE PHOTO: The New York Times building is seen in Manhattan, New York, US. August 3, 2020.

© Reuters / Shannon Stapleton

In his ruling on Friday, Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court in New York state ordered the New York Times to give Project Veritas back any physical copies of legal memos prepared by the media watchdog group’s attorneys and to erase all electronic copies.

The judge also upheld his temporary order issued last month against further publication of details from the memos. He said that the documents did not constitute a matter of public concern, adding that they fell under the group’s expectations of privacy that outweighed concerns about press freedoms.

“Steadfast fidelity to, and vigilance in protecting First Amendment freedoms cannot be permitted to abrogate the fundamental protections of attorney-client privilege or the basic right to privacy,” Wood ruled.

Project Veritas had raised objections to a November 11 New York Times article that purportedly revealed how the group held discussions with its lawyers to “gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices can go before running afoul of federal laws.

The article’s timing prompted outrage and suspicions that an FBI source might have leaked the newspaper confidential data obtained during recent raids.

It came out in less than a week after an FBI raid of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home – as part of an investigation into the group’s acquisition of a diary supposedly belonging to Ashley Biden, the US president’s daughter.

In a statement, Libby Locke, a lawyer for Project Veritas, said that the ruling affirmed the view that the New York Time’s behavior had been “irregular.”

The New York Times has long forgotten the meaning of the journalism it claims to espouse, and has instead become a vehicle for the prosecution of a partisan political agenda.

The decision came as part of a defamation lawsuit Project Veritas filed against the New York Times in 2020 when the paper published an article accusing the group of engaging in “deceptive” journalistic practices. The judge said that while these practices may be of public interest, legal communications were not.

Meanwhile, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said the paper would appeal the ruling – claiming that it was without “apparent precedent” and maintained that the documents were “obtained legally in the ordinary course of reporting.”

BBC accused of ‘deep-seated’ biases against Jews

Jewish leaders are demanding an apology over the broadcaster’s coverage

of anti-Semitic abuse

© REUTERS / Luke MacGregor

The BBC has been accused of making a “colossal error” in its report on a November attack against Jewish teenagers on a bus in London and is being called on to apologize.

The public broadcaster was one of many outlets covering the November 29 Oxford Street attack against a group of Jewish teens who were sitting in a bus when a group of men started spitting at them from outside. The group made Nazi salutes and hurled threatening abuse at the teenagers.

A BBC London correspondent, while describing the attack, mentioned that “some racial slurs about Muslim people” could be heard from inside the bus, saying it wasn’t clear if that had played a role in the incident.

According to an independent report commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, however, the anti-Muslim “slur” the BBC journalist was referring to, was actually a call for help in Hebrew by a Jewish man in the bus, translated as “Call someone, it’s urgent.”

A separate forensic analysis of the footage and forensic linguistic analysis ordered by the organization also confirmed that there was no slur, the organization said in a press release published on Thursday.

The results prompted the Board to make an official complaint to the BBC, calling the report an example of “deeply irresponsible journalism.” The organization’s president, Marie van der Zyl, called the BBC’s recollection of events a “colossal error” that it should publicly apologize for “at the very least.”

Van der Zyl questioned the BBC’s impartiality and said the story raised “serious questions about deep-seated biases within the BBC towards Israelis, and towards Jews in general.”

She said this and other “ongoing concerns” would be raised with the corporation’s Director-General Tim Davie in the new year.

The BBC, however, said it is standing by its report of the incident.

“There was a brief reference to a slur, captured in a video recording, that appeared to come from the bus,” a BBC spokesman said, as quoted by British media. He said the reference was included “so the fullest account of the incident was reported.”

Campaign Against Antisemitism also raised concerns over the report, writing to the BBC to “demand explanations” over what it called the “outrageous” coverage of the incident. The group said police investigating the attack “have found no evidence” of the supposed slur from the victims.

The controversy comes after the BBC was ranked third on the infamous Global Anti-Semitism Top Ten list by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the US — after Iran and armed Palestinian group Hamas.

Top reporter explains quitting the ‘woke’ national broadcasting corporation

“To work at the CBC is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon

 journalistic integrity,” Tara Henley wrote

FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, seen in Edmonton, Canada,

 August 9, 2021 © Getty Images / Artur Widak

Journalist and author Tara Henley penned a scathing resignation letter to the Canadian state-funded CBC, accusing it of peddling social justice dogma, shutting down debate, and racially profiling guests in the name of equity.

Henley, whose work has also appeared in multiple US and UK outlets, resigned from the news network this week after nearly a decade. In a resignation letter of sorts published on her new Substack blog and by the conservative-leaning National Post, she said that in the years since she started at the CBC, it “went from being a trusted source of news to churning out clickbait that reads like a parody of the student press.”

Henley, who describes herself as left-wing, claimed that the CBC’s management have wholly embraced “a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States,” forbidding any questioning of “woke” orthodoxy. 

This agenda extends to selecting which guests appear on the CBC’s shows, Henley claimed. According to her letter, reporters booking guests have to fill out “racial profile forms” to ensure they’re booking “more people of some races and less of others.”

In selecting which topics to cover, Henley said CBC management have no interest in hosting genuine debate on “sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and school closures,” instead prioritizing reporting on “microaggressions” and “ordinary people with ideas that Twitter doesn’t like.”

Henley said she has for months been receiving complaints from readers and viewers about the editorial direction of the network.

“People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported,” she wrote. “Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as ‘brainstorm’ and ‘lame.’”

CBC is Canada's national broadcaster and is almost completely funded by taxpayers. The Liberal government is much more generous to the CBC than previous Conservative governments. In 2015, the then CBC News frontman, Peter Mansbridge, was so happy when the results of the federal election started coming in showing a Liberal sweep of the Maritime Provinces, that he was literally spitting.

Both examples are real, with the CBC publishing multiple articles and videos this year on the lack of terms for “non-binary” in the Filipino Tagalog language, and describing the terms ‘brainstorm’ and ‘lame,’ as well as ‘blacklist’ and ‘savage,’ as “Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using.”

Henley’s gripes with the CBC aren’t unique, and she is far from the first to lambaste the “woke” mainstream media in recent years. However, she joins a growing number of mainstream journalists leaving the outlets that made them famous and pursuing editorial freedom on platforms like Substack. Former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald have migrated to Substack in the last year or so, with both accusing their former employers of ideological censorship, and even Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias – an avowed liberal – soon followed suit.

However, another former CBC reporter took to Twitter on Monday to argue the exact opposite to Henley. Ahmar Khan, who left the network in December 2020 after a dispute in which he called ice hockey pundit Don Cherry “xenophobic,” claimed that CBC management “have no idea what poor people, what black people really go through,” complaining that they rejected a race-focused story he pitched them. Referring to Henley’s move to Substack, Khan tweeted that “writing (badly) and shouting about wokeness is the new grift.”

And, yet, Khan is exactly the type of "journalist" Henley is complaining about. Someone who thinks the news media is there for them to use to alter society to their standards. There are programs where such things can be addressed, and should be addressed, but they should be  identified as such, not as the nightly news.

Personally, I watched CBC News for decades, but, a few months ago I stopped watching them altogether as they are a constant source of left wing, Liberal, propaganda, while completely ignoring, or vilifying anything right wing or even centrist. In 6 years, I have never heard a CBC reporter criticize Liberal PM Justin Trudeau, easily the worst Prime Minister in Canada since his father.

Rand Paul quits YouTube over ‘despicable’ censorship

Citing the platform’s rampant censorship practices, the lawmaker said

he was leaving YouTube as part of an ‘exodus’ from Big Tech

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks during a hearing on Covid-19 policy in Washington, DC.

July 20, 2021. © Getty Images / Stefani Reynolds

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has announced that he will no longer be posting content on YouTube, branding the Google-owned platform as the “worst censors” among a host of “Big Tech gatekeepers” that “silenced” opposing views.

Penning his thoughts in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on Monday, Paul noted that the move would be part of a bigger “exodus” from the “new town square” of “Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram” over rampant censorship and an “almost religious adherence to the edicts of government bureaucrats.”

i.e. Deep State!

“Just because private censorship of speech is allowable under the law, that doesn’t make that censorship any less despicable or illiberal,” Paul wrote, adding that he would be posting video content on rumble.com, an alternative platform that has gained popularity with creators dissatisfied with Big Tech companies’ misinformation policies.

Last year, the outspoken lawmaker received two strikes on his YouTube channel, leading to temporary account suspensions in August and September, for what the platform alleged were violations of its policy regarding Covid-19 misinformation. But Paul countered that the company had “the gall to delete constitutionally protected speech” by taking down his videos challenging prevailing narratives.

It is indeed ironic that the censors likely think of themselves as progressive but their actions are more suggestive of the diktats of the Medieval church.

“In the US in 2021, you are being told there are ideas or opinions that are too ‘dangerous’ for you to see,” Paul said, taking aim at “loud voices” in Congress “on the Left and the Right” who say they want to “break up or regulate Big Tech” without stepping up and doing something about it.

While describing the departure as his “New Year’s resolution,” Paul said he may still post videos on YouTube in order to “criticize them” or promote the competition. He encouraged “other liberty lovers” to follow suit and take their business elsewhere.

“About half of the public leans right,” he noted, adding that if, instead of “conforming to [Big Tech’s] approved opinions,” they “all took our messaging to outlets of free exchange, we could cripple Big Tech in a heartbeat.”

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The Media is the Message > CBC's Hopeless Liberal Bias; GB News Attacked by Former Chairman; Shameful, Biased Journalism; Terrorist Attack in L.A. Not News

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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 © AP / Yui Mok

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:

On Wednesday night at Shaarei Tefila synagogue in Los Angeles, a man showed up at a Sukkot holiday concert, looked around, and said: “I’m a real Muslim, I’ll show you what real terrorism looks like.” About twenty minutes later, the man returned in a car. According to The Algemeiner, he “allegedly accelerated down a one-way alley into a crowd of women and children” as the concert was ending. “The crowd of about 20 to 30 managed to jump out of the path of the vehicle before the assailant stopped short in front of a metal gate, yelled ‘f**k the Jews’ and left.” 

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.