Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Adbuster's Watch.
Adbuster's has started "Canwest Watch", where they attempt to show the contemptable chain for what it is, brothers and sisters! The best part is that they non-chalantly write in passages like this:

A CBC reporter contacted the news agency after noticing that a Reuters
story in last Tuesday's National Post was altered. In a broadcast Friday, CBC
also reported that a Sept. 9 article in the Ottawa Citizen, another CanWest
newspaper, added the word "terrorist" seven times to an article credited to the
Associated Press news agency.

Yesterday, Mr. Naru wouldn't say what Reuters might do if CanWest Global newspapers do not co-operate. "Editorial writers have a point of view," he observed, but wondered if editorials reflect the policy or the administration of a newspaper.

Yesterday, Mr. Naru wouldn't say what Reuters might do if CanWest Global newspapers do not co-operate. "Editorial writers have a point of view," he observed, but wondered if editorials reflect the policy or the administration of a newspaper.

"I know that our business people have talked to them [CanWest Global]," he said. But because of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur observances, "I don't know if everyone got contacted that should have been contacted."

Which is not really relevant to anything at all, but then they slide this in...

What hasn't changed is the stance on Israel. The first national editorial back in 2001 urged the Canadian government to side with Israel. People may remember Conrad Black’s flattering columns about Israel. But did Black also call his reporters “anti-Semites,” or say that almost all reporting from the Middle East is unbalanced and wrong? No.

Hmm, okay, so everyone's jewish and they are biased against Palestine? Funny they don't actually show any passages stating such things....only mentioning that the post edits the reuters reports, changing the words 'militant' or 'insurgent' to 'terrorist', stating that 'the post doesn't do that in any other conflict'...

Well, um, maybe it's because reuters doesn't refer to the IRA as 'insurgents'. I'd laugh pretty hard if reuters and the bbc actually started to call the men who blew the hell out of manchester and heathrow and london as 'insurgents'. The whole world would know and they themselves would know that they were full of ****.

Speaking of being full of ****, maybe Adbusters should start 'Adbusters Watch' where they count the days that have elapsed since Kalle Lasn's last anti-semitic outburst. I think its been about 300 days or so.

Attention Adbuster: Check your own bias.

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