Covid 2nd Wave....fact or fiction

[Badenoch]

I will not walk back on that one,in light of what the experts are advising one would have to be an idiot not to wear a mask.I suppose I am guilty after a fashion of name calling but not to you personally but collectively to all who do not wear a mask.

Some oversensitive underperformers take a collective insult very personally.

[MarkB]

A good journalist would have identified the race of those that tested positive......or was told not to print it. Problem with media these days most articles lack 'all' the information and raise more questions .

Is media controlled ... yes, it is! I was at a meeting in Oakville in Sep 2017 where Morneau tried to convince small business owners that they were naughty and were avoiding taxes ... nonetheless in the Labor Union offices (likely a welcome meeting spot for the Liberals). Questions from the public were limited to 2 minutes (Q&A) so basically there was no time to get any good answers from Morneau except for the blah, blah immaterial rhetoric. After the meeting, ALL the media were invited to a "back room", public was not allowed in ...

Anyhow, the next day, I googled the event to see if any of the news had published photos that I could find my team in ... and wow, did that open my eyes.

I found WORD FOR WORD, beginning to end, copy/paste exact article from multiple news corps ... obviously the were told what to write when they went to the "back room". Either that or news reporters are now lazy and allowed to plagiarize. Here are the articles so you can see for yourself ... all of them for example have the SAME starting paragraph ... "Canada's finance minister got a grilling Friday from taxpayers who are boiling mad about the Liberal government's proposed tax changes for small businesses."

Check them out for yourself:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/morn...cache=lbaijlxg

https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...s-turns-heated

https://www.insidehalton.com/news-st...n-tax-changes/

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/7...n-tax-changes/

https://financialpost.com/pmn/busine...s-turns-heated

[MikePal]

Oh I know for a fact there are often given the text (by the PMO) of the article to print.

But some smaller papers just print the article as it appears on the Associate Press telex release ( I know I know, I'm dating myself HaHa.)

[fishfood]

Well almost 2 weeks into the lock down and numbers are not heading down yet .
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mobile/to...ases-1.5212983

In Alberta they are calling for the federal government to create field medical centers. A little late but I'm sure that will be the next step Ontario makes as well.


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[MarkB]

Oh I know for a fact there are often given the text (by the PMO) of the article to print.

But some smaller papers just print the article as it appears on the Associate Press telex release ( I know I know, I'm dating myself HaHa.)

Oh wow, so am I reading too much into this, or is the Associate Press a tool which allows the government to control what media presents ... basically if we see the same thing being printed everywhere ... instead of blaming it on government control ... they just say oh they copied it from the Associate Press??

[fishermccann]

Some oversensitive underperformers take a collective insult very personally.

If the shoe fits......

[C.A. in TO]

Is media controlled ... yes, it is! I was at a meeting in Oakville in Sep 2017 where Morneau tried to convince small business owners that they were naughty and were avoiding taxes ... nonetheless in the Labor Union offices (likely a welcome meeting spot for the Liberals). Questions from the public were limited to 2 minutes (Q&A) so basically there was no time to get any good answers from Morneau except for the blah, blah immaterial rhetoric. After the meeting, ALL the media were invited to a "back room", public was not allowed in ...

Anyhow, the next day, I googled the event to see if any of the news had published photos that I could find my team in ... and wow, did that open my eyes.

I found WORD FOR WORD, beginning to end, copy/paste exact article from multiple news corps ... obviously the were told what to write when they went to the "back room". Either that or news reporters are now lazy and allowed to plagiarize. Here are the articles so you can see for yourself ... all of them for example have the SAME starting paragraph ... "Canada's finance minister got a grilling Friday from taxpayers who are boiling mad about the Liberal government's proposed tax changes for small businesses."

Check them out for yourself:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/morn...cache=lbaijlxg

https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...s-turns-heated

https://www.insidehalton.com/news-st...n-tax-changes/

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/7...n-tax-changes/

https://financialpost.com/pmn/busine...s-turns-heated

Mark, look at the byline on all the articles. They ARE all the same because all the papers used the Canadian Press article rather than writing their own

[Badenoch]

Mark, look at the byline on all the articles. They ARE all the same because all the papers used the Canadian Press article rather than writing their own

Perhaps you need to explain to him how a wire service works.

[sawbill]

[QUOTE=fishfood;1134373]Well almost 2 weeks into the lock down and numbers are not heading down yet .

And you shouldn't expect them to. Its like stopping a ship. Shut the engines down and that monster will still run for miles before you even notice a change in speed.

[Species8472]

Its like stopping a ship. Shut the engines down and that monster will still run for miles before you even notice a change in speed.

Best thing for that is torpedoes or an iceberg. Not sure what the pandemic equivalent would be.