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Media Offers Biased Coverage
Pubdate: Fri, 27 Jan 2006
Source: Interlake Spectator, The (CN MB)
Copyright: 2006 The Interlake Spectator
Contact: http://www.interlakespectator.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2164
Author: Russell Barth
MEDIA OFFERS BIASED COVERAGE
Dear Editor:
Interlake Spectator -- Re: Election Ruined By Biased Media
Well, 5,370,903 backwards-thinking Canadians were dumb enough to vote
for an ultra-right-wing, Christian-fundamentalist, Neo-Con government.
That's about a third of eligible voters, and barely one in six Canadians.
Probably a third of them voted `against the Liberals', rather than
`for the conservatives', so that is maybe 3,500,000 people who
actually wanted these creepy Tories in power. Meanwhile, 9,444,777
voted against The Conservatives!
Obviously, this is not a democracy.
The biggest blame for this mess goes to the media in this country.
Their overblown reporting of the Sponsorship Scandal, their puffing up
of the same-sex marriage issue, their refusal to let the Green Party
into the leadership debates, and their exaggeration of the
gun-violence statistics have robbed Canadians of the ability to make
informed decisions and guided the election results.
We have had to listen to eight weeks on balderdash, then choose a
leader? It is obscene!
Not to mention the fact that if the media had ever reported honestly
and factually about the connection between marijuana prohibition and
gun-violence, the results of this election would have been much different.
A truly disgusting railroading of democracy.
Russell Barth
Federal Medical Marijuana Licence Holder
Ottawa
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