CBC inventing CPC positions for us
I've talked about CBC's bias before, but this is ridiculous.
The CBC clearly took comments made by Mr. Harper, and spliced them together to make it look like he brushing off some Lebanese protesters, when in fact he was talking about polling numbers!
The CBC totally made it look like Mr. Harper could care less about the protesters outside and just blew them off. Yet CTV's coverage of the very same press conference shows the full context of the question and answers, including the fact that the Tories invited two of the protesters in to meet with Peter MacKay, because they wanted to ensure that their concerns were heard!
Remember everybody getting hot under the collar when Mr. Grewal was accused of splicing tape? (which proved to be a false accusation, by the way) Now that the CBC has been caught? What's going to happen? Oof course, all this is going to fly under the radar, but the damage has been done. Then again, it will only have been seen by viewers of CBC's newscasts... they're mostly Libs and Dippers anyway, right? (you know, preaching to the choir and all...)
Thanks to Stephen Taylor for posting that video clip. And I love the little splice of his own he inserts into the end of the tape...
WHITE BACKGROUND WITH TEXT QUESTION: "So Mr. Harper, what do you think about the CBC manipulating your words and taking them out of context?"
Cut to video of Harper: "Very predictable"
UPDATE: Seems that National Post media analyst Warren Kinsella, of former Liberal fame, agrees with Stephen Taylor and my view of the CBC story. Funny that... and he's a Liberal supporter to boot. Even he can see it.
The CBC clearly took comments made by Mr. Harper, and spliced them together to make it look like he brushing off some Lebanese protesters, when in fact he was talking about polling numbers!
The CBC totally made it look like Mr. Harper could care less about the protesters outside and just blew them off. Yet CTV's coverage of the very same press conference shows the full context of the question and answers, including the fact that the Tories invited two of the protesters in to meet with Peter MacKay, because they wanted to ensure that their concerns were heard!
Remember everybody getting hot under the collar when Mr. Grewal was accused of splicing tape? (which proved to be a false accusation, by the way) Now that the CBC has been caught? What's going to happen? Oof course, all this is going to fly under the radar, but the damage has been done. Then again, it will only have been seen by viewers of CBC's newscasts... they're mostly Libs and Dippers anyway, right? (you know, preaching to the choir and all...)
Thanks to Stephen Taylor for posting that video clip. And I love the little splice of his own he inserts into the end of the tape...
WHITE BACKGROUND WITH TEXT QUESTION: "So Mr. Harper, what do you think about the CBC manipulating your words and taking them out of context?"
Cut to video of Harper: "Very predictable"
UPDATE: Seems that National Post media analyst Warren Kinsella, of former Liberal fame, agrees with Stephen Taylor and my view of the CBC story. Funny that... and he's a Liberal supporter to boot. Even he can see it.
posted by Christian Conservative @ 11:03 p.m.
11 Comments:
At Sun Aug 06, 12:35:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Ahhhhh........the CBC makes me want to pull my hair out. I can't believe we have to pay for this!
At Sun Aug 06, 12:53:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
This kind of editing happens all the time to allow a story to unfold in short clips. However, it's meant to condense a story into quickly veiwable segments, not manipulate the story.
Also, notice that Chritina Lawand refers to Gery Schwarz as having "deep pockets" this could be seen as anti-semetic- eluding to the common anti-semetic them that Jews use their weath to control the world, gov't, hollywood, whatever the delusion..
anti-capitalist- can't trust the rich, their all out for themselves, all they care about is getting richer.
anti-conservative- all the conservatives care about is helping out their rich buddies, they don't care about the common man.
At Sun Aug 06, 08:37:00 a.m. EDT,
Christian Conservative said…
Well, in this case, he IS rich, so I don't know what you can do about that. ;-)
($140,000+ to the Libs over 13 years... that's gotta hurt!)
At Sun Aug 06, 01:33:00 p.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Dirk:
Thanks for explaining why the CBC's flagrant manipulation of the context of the story is actually OK, I feel much better.
At Sun Aug 06, 03:30:00 p.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Dirk - your comment and shoulder shrugging acceptance of the manner in which this report was edited shows exactly how the Liberals managed to "steal" taxpayers dollars and get re-elected. For you to even suggest that taking parts of the answer to a question and using snippets to build the story you want to present is OK, shows just why the Liberals are floundering out in "left" field.
Something smells and you have your nose plugged while you deny that anything is wrong.
At Sun Aug 06, 04:19:00 p.m. EDT,
Christian Conservative said…
Dirk - according to reports, there was a chunk of tape that appeared to me missing... turned out that when duplicated prior to giving it to the media, a chunk got left out. That piece, when reviewed, had nothing of interest, and did not make anyone look better or worse. He was cleared of any wrongdoing.
I still find it interesting, however, that the Libs managed to spin things in such a way that Grewal looked bad, and Dosanj and Tim Murphy got off scott-free, when they had clearly contravened the rules attempting to bribe him to come over... though they were REALLY careful NOT to actually offer anything... I've listened to the tapes, it's pretty clear. (using phrases like "if you were to come over, those are things we can discuss afterwards...")
At Sun Aug 06, 04:22:00 p.m. EDT,
Christian Conservative said…
To clarify, before anyone tries to use Emerson to fire back at me... the wrongdoing was NOT the offer of something like a cabinet post, but offering something to change the results of the upcoming budget vote. He said that to interfere with an upcoming vote is illegal, as per the Ethics Commissioner, but to make an offer to cross the floor at a time when no vote is on the floor is another matter.
(but it's interesting that even based upon his own interpretation, he refused to go back and investigate the Belinda affair... go figure)
At Sun Aug 06, 10:13:00 p.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
dirk said,
"This is how press conferences work:" "watch the clip on youtube" "the negative response among" "the Jewish community in Canada" "solely about a polling boost " "with the Arab community". "Harper made only a single passing comment on polling".
Oh yes, "the context of the quote, as presented in the CBC report is not inconsistent with" "Stephen Taylor's own slanted editorializing".
And he did say it. I have it in writing.
At Mon Aug 07, 09:24:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Dirk - you went to great lengths to "prove" that what Lawand did was "OK".
Just proves my point that you feel that taking a comment that is in answer to one question and applying that comment to give the impression that it was in answer to another situation is just "good editing".
Just proves my point that somehow this type of innuendo and directing viewers into believing something that is no is the leftist way. Guns in our cities ring a bell.
At Tue Aug 08, 12:07:00 p.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Nomdeblog,
Have you ever read "The Wealth of Nation's" by Adam Smith (who is the founder of modern Economic thinking by the way)...
He outline's very well in that book the need for public broadcasting and public education. He state's that if left up the the peopleto decide what they want to watch they will 'choose' to stupidify themselve (he says it more gracefully than me of course).
The CBC is designed to educate people and that's why your tax dollars are going towards it. That's actually a noble cause and should be praised rather than criticized and should not be drawn up into your partisian bickering... You may disagree with a slant that the CBC may be pushing, (that's at least respectable) but don't discount the CBC simply because of that!
I also have a question for you (and don't give me some right-wing loaded answer... tell me what you really believe). Why do people always label a news organization which chooses to tell both side's to an issue as being "Liberal"?
Also, over 1000 Lebanese have been killed in this conflict and less than 100 Isreali's... Therefore, even 50/50 coverage would be bias in favour of the Isreali's, it should be 10:1 in favour of Lebanon's position to actully be 'unbias'.... howere, I'm going out on a limb in assuming that you might have a thing or two to say against that.
All I'm trying to say is that the CBC is a good thing and while it may not be the people's number 1 choice on their TV's, they provide a valuable community service (and that come's from the creator of Right-wing Economic thinking)... You can criticize a bias, if you see one (as CC did), but don't get caught up in any ideological warfare!
At Thu Aug 10, 09:50:00 a.m. EDT,
Christian Conservative said…
Interesting... seems Warren agrees with my view...
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