Wednesday, 08 February 2017
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it,
you’re misinformed.” – Denzel Washington.
And in Canada, you are uninformed or half-informed.
I do not know whether I am becoming paranoid in my old age or whether you also noticed that for quite some time our mass media, save for the Toronto Sun on some sensitive subjects, seems to be engaged in self-censorship by omitting some kinds of news; reporting others partially; having started to report on an interesting story, suddenly dropping it and, at all events, taking the politically correct line on sensitive subjects while skipping in-depth analysis of troubling developments? Their editors and editorialists can sure some B12 vitamins for starters.
I think the Canadian public, the readership of newspapers and television audiences are being treated like the proverbial mushrooms-kept in the dark and fed the proverbial substance.
It is not unusual for me to learn about what is going on in Canada on a number of subjects through the foreign and international press rather than in the Globe and Mail, one of our two “so-called national newspapers, delivered to my door five days a week morning or from one or both of the national TV chains.
Never mind the business of the Fifth Estate being a guardian of democracy
The old motto “All the news fit to print” now reads: “Not all the news fit to print or broadcast.”
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