Comments on: Executive Producer says CBC not obligated to present “truth”

By: Linda Hall

Linda Hall — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:15:05 +0000

As to the CBC funding cuts coming, I would highly recommend cutting “Coaches Corner” – Canadians don’t need Don Cherry’s biased and uncontrollable ranting. His recent comments are distasteful, embarrassing and he’s nothing but an overpaid buffoon. If there is to be some form of Hocky commentating show, it’s time to replace it and have relevant talent that’s informative, constructive and not a “gong show” mentality.

By: Has Peak Oil Awareness Finally Hit the Mainstream? | Go Green or Die

Has Peak Oil Awareness Finally Hit the Mainstream? | Go Green or Die — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:16:31 +0000

[...] some time, into the mainstream. In that column, Monbiot did what journalists are supposed to but rarely do these days – he dug out the truth, which turned out to be none too comforting. It seems the [...]

By: Natural Foods: What's Natural and What's Not – A Simple Test | Go Green or Die

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:12:18 +0000

[...] Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) is a perfect example; Monsanto developed and promoted it as a way to increase milk production in cows despite their own very limited tests showing BGH caused problems in the cows and test animals is was given to. Monsanto then ‘arranged’ to have the U.S. government approve BGH and the Canadian government very nearly approve it, successfully pressured Fox News to keep a story about the safety of BGH off the air (getting two reporters fired in the process), and continues to lobby to make it illegal in some states to label milk as having come from cows given BGH. (As an aside, it was this same incident that resulted in the court agreeing that “Fox had no legal requirement to report the truth in a news story.” This same problem exists in Canada, where CBC’s The National Newhour’s Executive Producer informed me that “…it is not the CBC’s obligation to determine what is ‘truth’.”) [...]

By: Rex Murphy: The Ernst Zundel of Climate Denial — Go Green or Die

Rex Murphy: The Ernst Zundel of Climate Denial — Go Green or Die — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:12:30 +0000

[...] Producer of The National, who does not believe it is the job of the news to report truth, as he believes all truth is subjective. This might be the case with certain issues, like the morality of abortion, but is senseless when [...]

By: How capitalism destroyed freedom of the press and democracy — Go Green or Die

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:26:47 +0000

[...] is to expose truth and lies – because they don’t believe there is such a thing as truth. In an email exchange with the Executive Producer of The National Newshour, the Canadian Broadcasting [...]

By: CBC and The National: “it is not the CBC’s obligation to determine what is ‘truth’” | Political News and blogs on Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics and Voting on Informed Vote | InformedVote.ca

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:45:54 +0000

[...] a trustworthy source of information – or worthy of your tax dollars. [Note: I have pasted the full email here.] Here are the shocking [...]