Newspapers beholden to special interests

[Mr_Mrs_Wolf]

Newspapers beholden to special interests are unwilling to report how sponsoring elites profit by abusing the wallets of taxpaying citizens. What debased media will report is anything that advances the positions of their masters.

“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news,” is the sentiment expressed in a little framed placard on the desk of L. E. Edwardson, day city editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner.

https://in-sights.ca/2017/03/17/hit-piece-journalism/

[Urban Cowboy]

What debased media will report is anything that advances the positions of their masters.

Finally something we agree on.

That describes The Tyee to a Tee.

[flamingfingers]

Don't tell me you actually read the Tyee!!

[twobits]

Don't tell me you actually read the Tyee!!

I'll read the National Enquirer before the Tyee if I am looking for factual news.

[ferri]

*Stay on topic please.

[The Green Barbarian]

an article written by someone beholden to special interests (the NDP and unions) about news media being beholden to special interests. You just can't make this stuff up.

[bob vernon]

Just read the editorial page in the Vernon Morning Star as the election nears. The editor sits up like a trained seal and sanitizes Christy Clark with a depth of social understanding that rivals Donald Trump. Anything to curry favour with head office of the Black Press. Tries to be kinda folksy all the while pushing the provincial Liberal agenda.

[flamingfingers]

Definitive action being taken as of today:

Lawsuit claims B.C. Liberals using taxpayers' money to boost image

Ria Renouf
March 20, 2017 12:25 pm
Lawsuit claims B.C. Liberals using taxpayers' money to boost image
Two Vancouver-area lawyers have filed a Notice of Civil Claim against the B.C. Government and the B.C. Liberal Party.

The claim, filed by lawyers Paul Doroshenko and David Fai on behalf of a concerned taxpayer, alleges the Province is spending as much as $15-million of taxpayer money to boost the Liberals’ image.

In a press release, the duo says the moves add up to “unjust enrichment” for the party.

They’re looking to have the lawsuit certified as a class action.

http://www.inews880.com/syn/112/286438/ ... oost-image

[LTD]

what is a newspaper?

[The Green Barbarian]

http://www.inews880.com/syn/112/286438/ ... oost-image

This could have huge ramifications for the Federal Liberals. What will Justin do without taxpayer cash to bolster his image???

[lasnomadas]

Attempted deflection of provincial dirty deeds to federal politics doesn't do anything to take readers' eyes off the prize.

[The Green Barbarian]

Attempted deflection of provincial dirty deeds to federal politics doesn't do anything to take readers' eyes off the prize.

what prize? What the hell are you talking about?

[maryjane48]

i hope it becomes class action and every tax payer signs up to get corruptly spent money back . back in colonial days what she has done would be treason punisable by public hanging .

[The Green Barbarian]

back in colonial days what she has done would be treason punisable by public hanging .

Then Glenn Clark and Adrian Dix would have been swinging from a yard-arm in 1998.

[flamingfingers]

^^Both were cleared of all guilt - in court!!