February 15, 2023. Good Morning! We need to have a conversation on Scandals, and why there are so many that turn out to be nothing. There's so much going on right now that should be front page news, but is ignored, and so much bullshit getting all the attention. Stay Safe! ☮️❤️🍁

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I posted this as a reply to @alexboyd earlier, but I think it should go out to all reporters - she asked for input on people who hate reporters. And while there are some, I think people should know that they're not who you need to hate, be angry with, or take your anger out on.

I don't have an issue with reporters, I don't believe most are intentionally disingenuous, misleading, or purposefully withholding information - I think media organizations, and their foreign and/or biased owners are focused on pushing narratives, and discourage their employees from sharing balanced information that might conflict with the narratives they want to put in front of people.

For reference, Postmedia, which owns most of the newspapers in Canada, is owned by Chatham Asset Management - a MAGA friendly venture out of New Jersey. They're best known for a conspiracy rag, The National Enquirer (Bigfoot anyone?)

Bell and Rogers, who control most of the TV news in the country, are more interested in tax breaks than facts. Big media is not your friend, and the people who work for them don't have a lot of options - they have rules they need to play by, one being don't piss off the owners of the company. Not like they have tons of options without leaving the country, or are going to get a good reference if they defy ownership (and likely wouldn't get published/aired anyway)

CBC, their board is pretty conservative leaning too. Weird, as the CPC keeps threatening to defund them, and did to a degree when they were last in power, but they still seem to be beholden to them.

As an example (one of many possible), WE (the charity)

When the CPC freaked out about a scandal, it was all over the news, and it improved CPC polling, and damaged Liberal polling - but when it was discovered that it wasn't a scandal, the enthusiasm to share vanished completely, and if there was anything, it was buried and treated as nothing. As a consequence, the majority of people who rely on mass media still believe WE (the charity) was a scandal, and are unaware that the CPC killed a children's charity to create a scandal that didn't end up a scandal at all.

Reporting that would have harmed the CPC, and a media with ownership that cared about being truthful would have reported it, but there was radio silence.

I have yet to hear mass media mention that the majority of boil water advisories have been lifted across the country - the number of people who think nothing has been done is massive.

I'm sure the majority of employees of Rogers, Bell, and Postmedia would be on board with reporting these things, but ownership? They don't want to allow anything that might hurt the CPC's fortunes, or raise the Liberal's fortunes.

Still, mad at media ownership, not reporters. Having heavily partisan ownership means people who rely on mass media in Canada see things through a very partisan lens.

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