Lefties, as we all know, are about the “common good”, about “equal” opportunities … in short, they want to create a utopia where everybody is the same (low-level wretch). With religious fanaticism they preach their gospel about their “ideal” society, while castigating and condemning capitalism, free markets and anyone who, by his or her own hard work, has achieved success. It seems they never waste an opportunity to share their “pearls of wisdom” with the rest of us – that is, those with a normally functioning brain and who, therefore, have not fallen victim to the mental disease known as left-wing ideology.
Tag Archives: Media
Barack Obama – a product of sycophantic media
Rex Murphy, one of Canada’s leading common-sense thinkers, has hit the nail on the head yet again. In trying to explain the mess that America finds itself in and the president’s rapidly declining approval ratings, Rex has identified the source of the problem: sycophantic media that failed to do their job.
Hacking scandal – don’t throw baby out with the bathwater
What started out as an annoying scandal in Britain has now gripped the entire world. Every newspaper or news organization has been reporting and opining wildly about the hacking scandal involving the now-defunct News of the World tabloid in Britain.
Huffington Post arrives in Canada
This is a day to be celebrated. Canada’s media and journalism scene just got richer … and moved into the 21st century: the Huffington Post is now available as a separate Canadian edition complete with Canadian voices.
Canada Votes: Toronto Star columnist in dire need of a shrink
There’s no denying that there are great differences among competing ideologies. There are also wide areas of disagreement among political parties, but to a lesser degree, because parties are about politics, not policy, and politics are invariably about one thing, regardless of the party: duping voters into buying into even the silliest ideas.
If Calgary Herald is any indication, PostMedia will die like CanWest
When CanWest went bankrupt, the new owners of its newspapers, PostMedia, promised to do better – in particular, it would launch a major digital offensive.
Is Apple charging too much?
Amazon and Apple share the same compensation plan for developers and publishers: the two Big A’s pocket 30 per cent of sales, and the other 70 per cent goes to the developer or publisher. Apple recently launched a new subscription feature for companies wishing to publish their newspapers and magazines over the iPad, and again, Apple gets to keep 30 per cent of subscriptions sold and – even more crucially for publishers – refuses to share too much information on subscribers.
Canadian media largely not ready yet for 21st century
Apple’s iPad arrived in Canada on May 28, 2010. That day alone, well over 250,000 units were sold. That same day also, all those new and proud iPad owners were impressed by the “media apps” they found already waiting for them in the App store: Wall Street Journal, London Times, New York Times, etc. Each one was a professionally made app that not only recreated the look and feel of those newspapers, but actually went much further.
Canada is a third-rate banana republic with unethical news media
These days I feel ashamed to be Canadian. I’m not very proud of our news media either. The whole kerfuffle over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to eliminate the mandatory long form of the census is utter nonsense, and I’m beginning to wonder if our opposition politicians and the news media are only pretending to be as dumb as they have shown themselves to be in this matter, or whether they really are this far removed from even the slightest trace of intelligence (and honesty).
Here’s what it boils down to: the long form is about asking a long series of more or less silly and trivial question, but filling it out takes up a lot of time, for which the taxpayer isn’t compensated at all. And all that just so that the government’s statisticians don’t have to work too much (as if civil servants didn’t slack off enough as is).
Other countries, as The Economist recently explained, such as in Scandinavia, have already done away with the traditional census, and others will follow suit, like Britain or Germany. Instead of forcing the population to do slave work, government statisticians in those countries actually work for their generous salaries (and perks extorted by their unions) by analyzing existing data from a multitude of sources and realigning them in new ways to get to the information that the census used to provide.
If we were to believe the end-of-days jeremiads of Liberals, the NDP and virtually all newspaper columnists and editorialists, not having a proper census would result in the annihilation of the country. If that were true, why, then, do Denmark and all those other countries still exist?