Canada's War reserve weapons storage

[smellie]

Yes, I was the Editor of The Pilot, a rural Newfoundland newspaper, for about 3-1/2 years, then came back home out West and ran a paper here for some years.

It is extremely difficult to run an independent paper in this country. You must toe the line and, if you don't, lots of strange things can start happening: the police start handing you false information even about highway accidents, give the straight goods to the other papers, that kind of thing. And Government just controls so MUCH advertising (all at Line Rate, too: highest rate possible).

At one time you could get bits of truth out of the Gummint, but I am not sure that I would try to run an HONEST paper today. Journalism today, in very many places, is the playground for the intellectual Left. For this, I think the Journalism schools are to blame. Just look at some of their products: semi-literate at best but they sure know how to be politically correct. Most newspapers today are covers for advertising, nothing more. Look even at Letters to the Editor: they get fifty letters against the Registry, print one and mock it or the writer or both, then they get one letter FOR it and print that, with an endorsement, just to be "fair". Same thing, a journalist today does not DARE say anything against Muslims, Jews, Jains, Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, Wiccans, Scientolgists, Falun Gong or a hundred others but it's perfectly okay to mock Christianity, especially the church of Rome. Terrorists and bandits on the Left are called "agrarian reformers" or "freedom fighters", but anything slightly to the right of Trotsky is dead meat, described as "neo-Nazi", "right-wing extremist" or some other epithet which is semantically loaded against the subject. Outright Communists are termed "socialists" and Libertarians are termed "loose cannon" or "crackpots" or "anarchists". It is NOT pretty. I'm glad I am out of it, now write fiction about a retired wizard with 3 wives who drinks too much. At least, writing down Sidney's adventures, I can be a BIT objective about things: Sidney hates all forms of Government, but he hates them all equally!

I don't think ANY media today tells anything even remotely like the truth. EVERYTHING is politically biased and 99.9% of people don't have access to the facts so they can sort it out for themselves. Obama walks on water, Stephen Harper is a Tool of Satan and THAT is the way the media tells it.
I got a press release a few days ago saying that Global Warming is now PROVEN. What proved it? Why, the "record high temperatures all across Western Canada this Summer"! I live in Western Canada and we haven't even HAD Summer this year; it has been cold and raining 9 days out of 10 for the past 5 months. Normal rainfall here is 30 inches a year: we had 22 in June and it hasn't stopped yet. The media is lying.... and so is the Government agency which sent out that press release.
It's that simple.
ALL of North America NEEDS news media which is independent and unbiased. The problem is where to get it.
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I hereby apologise for subjecting you to the above rant. YOU don't deserve it.