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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
"Mainstream media" misses the story, again
Down here, "mainstream media" (MSM) has missed or misreported major stories so often it's practically par for the course (the journalistic misfeasance regarding Iraq is genuinely breathtaking); today I managed to catch the Canadian branch doing it.
This Globe and Mail piece reports former Prime Minister Paul Martin's comments on Huseyin Celil in his (Martin's) talks with Communist Premier Wen Jiabao. Yet G&M reporter Geoffrey York misses the real importance of Martin's trip to Shanghai, his role as an "adviser" to the African Development Bank.
Communist China has been digging its meat hooks into Africa for some time now, especially with the more bloodthirsty regimes, such as Zimbabwe and Sudan. The Communist policy of making the world safe for dictators has combined with Africa's vast resource wealth to create a match made in heaven for the brutish regimes (the people are, as with all tyrannies, irrelevant). However, even some of the democratic nations in Africa have fallen under the spell of Communist "investment."
Normally, a pan-African financial institution such as the African Development Bank might look askance on the Communist resource grab, and especially at the military aid to tyrants that comes with it. However, the ADB likely won't hear that from its aforementioned Canadian adviser, who is far from the most clear-headed thinker on Communist China.
This could have been the beginning of an excellent piece on how "engagement" supporters have aided Communist China's neo-colonization policy in Africa, if MSM were willing to take a hard look at it. Alas, the Canadian MSM is proving itself to be as lazy and biased as the American version.
Posted by D.J. McGuire on May 16, 2007 in Canadian Politics, International Affairs | Permalink
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I suspect you're quite right about China's goals in Africa, and would add that the laziness and bias in much of the western media (and amongst Western politicians, for that matter) comes from the sort of herd thinking you usually get from people who hang out together at the same club and read the same papers all day long. They noticeably help each other to get new jobs, too (hi, former PM PM).
Posted by: Blackadder | 2007-05-16 11:18:53 AM
"and would add that the laziness and bias in much of the western media (and amongst Western politicians, for that matter) comes from the sort of herd thinking you usually get from people who hang out together at the same club"
I mostly agree, but it's also because China is Commie run - their fellow travelers, that they won't expose them for what they are doing.
Posted by: obc | 2007-05-16 12:03:09 PM
This is not new. When I lived in Africa in the late 60s the Chinese communists were there - in the guise of providing aid. The country was not communist but they already had their foot in the door and were making serious attempts to influence the rural and village population.
Posted by: Alain | 2007-05-16 1:51:06 PM
I posted this earlier on the wrong thread. Here it is again:
CTV headline from their web page reads:
"Dan Rather makes his acting debut"
Ha! Guffaw! Laughter! Chortle!
Dan Rather has been acting as an impartial newsman for See B.S. for decades!
Posted by: obc | 2007-05-16 1:55:10 PM
There are lots of "actors" in the MSM, bad ones at that, they aren't fooling anyone with their impartiality routine.
Muggs Mansbridge, he who talks with tight lips, is a fine example. Don Newman and Mike Duffy are further examples who ooze bias so strong they can't hide it.
No Academy awards for them.
Dan Rather is long past his best before date, it's fitting he should join a few Hollywood has-been activists and take the show on the road to oblivion.
Martin is madly running around trying to make a name for himself to make up for his failure as Liberal Leader, a job he coveted and back-stabbed to attain.
Posted by: LizJ | 2007-05-16 2:30:32 PM
Perhaps he should be put forward for the next Academy Award for impersonating an impartial newsman, although the competition would be immense.
Posted by: Alain | 2007-05-16 2:30:45 PM
"Mainstream media" misses the story, again
...ummm, when did the MSM ever hit a story?
Posted by: tomax7 | 2007-05-16 9:05:05 PM
Puffy Duffy has been lobbying for a Senate appointment for years -he likes to wear his Made in China Liberal Tie given to him by NB Liberal MP Paul Zed - who was Dingwall's business partner in Ottawa
-real newsmen and women in the Atlantic region detest puffy Duffy a notorious gossip. He has no real background as a Reporter -his principal function when he started in Halifax with ATV was to pick up Press Releases -the old RCAF adadge "Bullshit Baffles Brains" applies to Taber, Oliver and Duffy, and Newman of course - a pretty grim assessment of Canadian MSM - supporters of Citoyen Dion - MacLeod
Posted by: Jack MacLeod | 2007-05-17 7:49:25 AM
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