Liberals try to block media, media boycotts Liberals instead

[Pete Podoski]

Canadian media refuses to attend Press Freedom scrum after Liberal minister denies access to two conservative journalists



In a rare moment of media solidarity, Canadian news outlets threatened to boycott a press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland at the Global Conference for Media Freedom: London 2019 after the only two conservative journalists present were denied access to the scrum.

According to several accounts, reporters Andrew Lawton from True North, and Sheila Gunn Reid from The Rebel, were the only two Canadians barred from a media availability event with Minister Freeland.


Andrew Lawton
AndrewLawton
Reporters from CBC, CTV, Global, Globe and Mail and Al Jazeera refused to participate in a scrum with Chrystia Freeland if SheilaGunnReid and I were not included. Our media colleagues stood firm, and Freeland's office eventually let us all attend and ask a question each.


The conference which was co-hosted by Canada and the U.K. was advertised as an event seeking to promote press freedom around the world.

{Snip} <<< Cats' orders.

“One of them asked her what about the rest. She replied by saying anyone else would have to stay behind. It was only Sheila Gunn Reid from the Rebel and I from True North who were excluded.”


Redmond Shannon
RedShannon
Jul 11, 2019
At the *Defend Media Freedom* conference CanadaFP is telling Canadian journalists there is a limited number of spaces for us to interview Foreign Minister cafreeland


Redmond Shannon
RedShannon
Update: CanadaFP listed out 5-6 outlets and exlcuded at least two Canadian journalists. We refused to take part unless they allow all of us. They’re now looking for a bigger room. Oh the tension.

{Snip}

After it was discovered that the only conservative journalists present would be excluded from a press freedom conference with Freeland, the reporters present “unanimously” agreed to boycott the event until everybody could be allowed.

“The mainstream media, in particular CTV, lead the charge to boycott the press conference if any of us were cut from the press conference with the minister,” said Gunn Reid.

“We all watched Freeland talk about how it is a journalists right to ask hard questions to politicians in people in power in several plenary sessions this week, and yet when given the chance to put her own promises into practice, she failed.”

Currently, Canada is ranked 18th on the 2019 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders only one space ahead of Urugay.

“The Liberal’s understanding of press freedom is that it only applies to those who will give favourable coverage to them; the sorts of coverage and “helpful op-eds” that Katie Telford knew she could elicit from a compliant media,” said Gunn Reid.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/canad ... ournalists

[featfan]

https://www.therebel.media/chrystia-fre ... ebel-media

Here is the video.

[the truth]

pure scum

[floppi]

Here's Index......considering the countries ahead of us, we don't seem that bad for press freedom.


https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

Then again, there is that extreme right bias of the post millenial.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-post-millennial/

[burnedatstake]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

[Pete Podoski]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

If they blocked the C.B.C., you'd be losing your poop.

It's so ironic when the Liberals are supposedly "celebrating" Media Freedom, that they block media from attending.

I don't think it could have been scripted worse for Freeland. What on earth were they thinking?

Maybe she should have started crying again to distract people from her incompetence.

[the truth]

just another reason why the libs will not win the next election, keep up the great work jt

[Hurtlander]

Not only are the Liberals trying to control the press by excluding media they don’t like, and by giving the media they do support $600 Million to ensure everything is spun in the Liberals favour, the Liberals also caused another glacier to melt by co-hosting a live in person, global media conference in London right in the middle of a climate emergency...
Evidently the Canadian and British governments haven’t heard of that newfangled technology, green non polluting, live streaming satellite hookup..

[The Green Barbarian]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

Of course you are. Leftists hate free speech.

[OKkayak]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

It doesn't matter who's side they're "serving, freedom of speech is exactly that, no matter if you agree with the hosts point of views or not.

[the truth]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

Don't make it personal.

[Hurtlander]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

[the truth]

*removed
If you want to discuss mod decisions feel free to PM

[mooseman]

considering that they are 2 outlets that are only serving one side of the fence - im ok with that decision to block. especially the rebel.

Of course you are. Leftists hate free speech.

They love the facists like Antifa, probably supported the socialist brown shirts in Nazi Germany too.
Oct . Is going to be a defining moment in our country.

[burnedatstake]

while the noam chomsky meme was an inspiration - i am a realist in the political climate we have lived in the last 20 or more years. if that ability of letting those contray to you speak was paramount - then why were journalists supposed to pre submit questions limited to just 5 questions per media opportunity in the past? if contrary views were paramount today - then why is a leader in a provincial government handing out ear plugs as a joke? which really wasnt a joke as claimed at all. kenny comes from a regime where listening is second. and for kenny to portray trudeau as an "or else" PM is rich. many motions and policies that the conservatives made were done underhandedly in a pile of paperwork.
trudeau has been more accessible to the canadian public - and has had stood in the fire more than any PM ive seen in a long time. anyone who thinks that adjustments for optics are not made after these types of events are silly. but as far as policy i dont think trudeau needs to budge at all. his government won a healthy mandate as a majority. and that majority has made motions and significant policies simply by using that majority. whereas in the past we had a regime that would prorogue and omnibus policy because they were simply incapable to listen and have their policy scrutinized by members of parliament or by canadians. as such i dont feel that any supporter of the conservative party is taking themselves seriously if they use noam chomsky quotes like the one displayed to make a point. they are either obtuse - or they are disingenuous.
ford is another conservative that wont listen. he has bombasted his way through policy and changes in such a haphazard way - that it shows him not even listening to the voices of reason in his own party. which likely have all the headaches of dealing with the fallout of his political style. hence the merry go round of members and advisors in ontario that we have seen come and go. if the conservatives want control - then they need to earn that and win an election. but when they display the illusions while the drapes are lifted proving otherwise - it only solidifies support for the liberals. and i welcome that.
scheer has even proven how tone deaf he is in the environmental policy. when he gets challenged he says "i wouldnt characterize it that way" or "that isnt a fair representation of the policy" it only proves that these announcements are only for the ears of one segment of the society. those that support conservatives. not even the people on the fence - the old stock conservatives. that is also a huge mistake.
i say enough already of the front. yes - i am left and we dont hear whiners on the right. and i own that. its about time that the right presents itself like so many i have seen recently and simply be bombastic and not portray a false narrative. at least then i can grudgingly respect them as a person. at least they are not being something that they simply cant be.