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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

CBC reports on “bulbs sprouting”—with new Obama era style of reporting: happy thoughts pictures!

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday January 14 2009 at 10:54 AM

As if on cue: after my posting of a photo of bulbs sprouting up in our front yard (Bulbs Sprouting Up) and suggesting that the media’s slobbering and fawning over Obama will usher in a new style of news reporting quite distinctly different from what they employed during the Bush era —dropping the photos of Iranians burning posters and flags of Obama in favor of happy thought photos for example —the CBC Newsworld gratuitously—for absolutely no newsworthy reason—sees fit to display these photos.  The news anchor Nancy Wilson reports, glibly:  “We just wanted to show you some pictures to make you smile!” 

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Then they go back to their oft-repeated stories of the coming Obama inauguration and such. 

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EXTRA EXTRA:
Picking up on much the same thing I did in my “Bulbs Sprouting” blog entry and this one (referencing those non-reported Reuters photos of Obama flag burning in Iran), the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com writer James Taranto writes:

The Definition of ‘Hardline’

Here’s a Reuters photo caption from last Friday:
 

Demonstrators burn an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, in protest of Israeli aggression against Palestinians January 9, 2009. About 2,000 Muslim protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy in the Malaysian capital on Friday holding placards and banners, and shouting anti-Israel slogans.

Here’s a Reuters photo caption from today:
 

Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, during a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran January 13, 2009.

Not surprisingly, both captions are biased against Israel, the first referring to “Israeli aggression,” and the second claiming the poster-burners support “the people of Gaza” when one presumes they actually back the Islamic supremacist movement Hamas.

But note the difference: The guys who are burning Bush in effigy are merely “demonstrators,” while the guys who are burning Obama’s poster are “hardline demonstrators.” Reuters’ pro-Obama bias seems to be tempering its usual anti-American bias. It will be interesting to see whether this continues to be the case after Obama becomes president next week. Is Reuters merely an anti-American news service, or is it a hardline one?

Is Reuters actually a “news” service?  And the CBC?

 

Posted by Joel Johannesen on   Wed, January 14, 2009 at 10:54:17 AM
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  1. daverbonz's avatar daverbonz says:

    Oh Happy thoughts, you mean a humungo, large, gas/diesel guzzling, AGW, Goracle sucking sea vessel carrying thousands in absolute luxury throughtout our many seas is now deemed “pictures that make you smile’...hmmmm, a few months ago when the CBC, and that air head, wilson nearly every waking moment of each day professed the end of the world is upon us due to these luxuries now since the fraud has been exposed for what it is it’s back to “Happy time”.  What a bunch of flippin, lying hipocretes.

    Posted by daverbonz  from  Ottawa, Ontario...Nepean/Carleton  on  Wed, January 14, 2009 at 12:25:24 PM
  2. lowrider's avatar lowrider says:

    Joel, I’m glad you jumpstarted the “bulbs sprouting” and “happy thoughts” pictures! I needed some smiley time after shovelling drifts of “global warming” off of my driveway this morning in a balmy temperature of -22.

    Regarding the upcoming Obamaguration, you can offset the brain cell damaging CBC coverage with some reality based coverage from Jules Crittenden’s Hurl-Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza, The Dry Heaves

    Posted by lowrider  from  Baden Ontario  on  Wed, January 14, 2009 at 1:12:31 PM
    — lowrider's   s i g n a t u r e:

    “We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”   
    Sir Winston Churchill

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