(Home page photo of Blood Tribe rally in Standoff, Alta., courtesy of Blaire Russell)
APTN National News
Monday’s rallies seemed hard to miss with the drumming, chanting and marching in some of Canada’s largest cities.
But somehow, for the national mainstream media, the demonstrations were invisible.
As APTN National News reporter Ntawnis Piapot finds out, another story dominated the headlines that day.
And it pushed aside a few thousand angry Indigenous people.
Their is a Walk the Talk Thursday December 13, 2012 to take place at Galt Gardens Park, Lethbridge AB at noon…walk starts at 1:00 pm…in support of our national leaders across Canada and Idle No More. We need to take a stand, the protests have just begun. PLEASE FORWARD
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Tha’s cause the national media was focused on Harper’s relatives at Ikea.
But did anyone actually invite the media, let the media outlets know what was happening, and when?
First word. Next Gathering for Dec 21st (winter solstice)…will be listening for more. As noted however, if the Corps owned news are told to stay home- no matter how many press packages r sent, they will look for other non-news to keep Canadians distracted-like with other sustained movements it will be the International media who come. Invite Reuters, Democracy Now, AlJazeera, etc.Some of the National Press might just get curious. We will have to rely on the internet and social media (just like the Arab Spring). Some might say Harper is not an egyptian dictator like Mubarak, but I say a dictator is a dictator – bring him down!
they were not angry indigenous people, they were peaceful indigenous protesters.
You no longer have reporters, you have repeaters.
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/12/28/NewNewJournalism/
The new game began in Canada on Aug. 27, 1980. “Black Wednesday”, as it became known, was the
day newspaper corporations across the country colluded to swap properties and
kill competition. The Ottawa Journal and
the Winnipeg Tribune folded, and Vancouver Province’s owner, Southam, bought
the Vancouver Sun. The two had been in bed together since 1950s via a
press-and-profit-sharing agreement at Pacific Press that killed the third paper
and defended against upstarts.
Suddenly competition for readers was no longer necessary;
these publicly traded corporations now focused on advertiser-pleasing copy as
the technique for pulling more ads.
At least Postmedia has an understandable reason for changing
standards: they’re legally obligated to maximize profits. But the fact that the
commercial-free public broadcaster also ignores the public good suggests that
there is a new definition of journalism.
Canada’s Billionaire Media Playas
Picking two names at random, among them is David Thomson,
the richest man in Canada with wealth in the area of $23 billion and a key
owner of The Globe and Mail. Thomson
spends millions on art without giving it a second thought.
The second individual is Pierre Karl Péladeau, the president
and CEO of Quebecor Inc., which owns the second largest newspaper chain in the
country. He is anti-union. Using strong-arm tactics to humble employees
at two of his Québec papers, Péladeau forced them to accept lower wages.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4270/
Corporate-owned
media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
How is
it possible that the real nitty-gritty behind the most important issue facing
millions of people is pretty much taboo in the popular media? What has happened to our right to have access
to fair and balanced journalism?
Denying
the public access to vital information has a strong negative impact on the
democratic process in Canada, just as it does in any country in the world.
Unfortunately,
nearly all of Canada’s mainstream political and economic journalists are
forbidden from focusing on the fundamental flaws in our system.
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4270/
NOAM CHOMSKY
TOP 10 MEDIA MANIPULATION STRATEGIES
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished American philosopher,
political activist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, has compiled a list of the ten most powerful and
effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a
manipulation of the population through the media.
e.g.: Encourage
stupidity, promote a sense of guilt, promote distraction, or construct
artificial problems and then magically, solve them, are just some of these
tactics.
http://theinternationalcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/07/noam-chomsky-top-10-media-manipulation_08.html?spref=fb
1 – THE STRATEGY OF DISTRACTION
The key element of social control is the strategy of
distraction – that is to divert public attention from important issues and
changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of
flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
The strategy of distraction is also essential to keep the
public interested in the essential knowledge in science, economics, psychology,
neurobiology, and cybernetics. “Keep
the public’s attention distracted away from the real social problems,
captivated by issues of no importance. Keep
the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to the farm and other
animals.
http://theinternationalcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/07/noam-chomsky-top-10-media-manipulation_08.html?spref=fb
How Rich Elite & Corporate Propaganda Hijacks Democracy
Do you ever wonder why so many of the Fraser Institute’s
right-wing commentaries get into Canadian daily newspapers? Perhaps you’ve been disturbed by the spate of
articles about the inevitability of Canada forming closer ties with the United
States. Maybe you’re troubled by the
constant media attacks on medicare?
Former SFU communications professor and occasional Straight
contributor Donald Gutstein explains how Canadians are being duped by a
sophisticated, broad-ranging, and reactionary public-relations assault financed
by some of North America’s largest corporations.
Wealthy Americans such as brewing magnate Joseph Coors and
newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife funded several think tanks in the
1970s to spread a libertarian message of deregulation and lower taxes, which
countered the consumer revolution led by Ralph Nader.
http://www.straight.com/article-266343/gutsteins-theory-pries-lid-think-tanks
http://www.amazon.ca/Not-Conspiracy-Theory-Propaganda-Democracy/dp/1554701910
Canada’s indentured press
Why are Harper’s enablers, some of them sitting on the
editorial board of my beloved Globe and Mail, so untroubled by the fact that
the PM has his boot on the neck of Canadian democracy?
Is this what happens when the Report on Business rules the
editorial roost?
Has editorial board policy scaled the newsroom walls on
Front Street as the Publisher’s Office once did in the days of Roy Megarry and
Norman Webster? Is the Globe’s zeal for a Biznocracy in Canada so keen that it
now believes, along with the government, that the end justifies the means?
With the anniversary of Watergate upon us, it is time for a
little soul searching at the Grey Lady. My advice? Send a few marquee
columnists into official government service and hire Maher, McGregor, Ditchburn
and Naumetz. No doilies behind those heads.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/06/20/michael-harris-conservatives-have-campaigned-and-governed-with-no-regard-for-democracy/