Canada's media

[M.Dancer]

If Harper had a majority he probably do something about the Canadian media and what they report and he said this past week that he doesn't watch Canadian media but rather watch the US. He doesn't like what the Canadian media say about him but Stevie, they say worse things about Iggy!! I wondering who is the more American between the two? Is Harper coming out of the closet? http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephen...-s-not-watching

Well, between you, Iggy and Harper, you make the least amount of sense so I guess you must be the etranger..

[noahbody]

If Harper had a majority he probably do something about the Canadian media and what they report and he said this past week that he doesn't watch Canadian media but rather watch the US. He doesn't like what the Canadian media say about him but Stevie, they say worse things about Iggy!! I wondering who is the more American between the two? Is Harper coming out of the closet? http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephen...-s-not-watching

"I watched the last several elections in the United States very closely. I tend to watch mainly American news because I don't like to watch Canadian news and hear what Allan (Gregg, a pollster and CBC pundit who was in the audience) and everybody else is saying about me, so my hobby is to watch politics elsewhere."

Is this reporter a moron? It's called a joke.

[Oleg Bach]

The owners of the Canadian Media are finally starting to use their holdings for political purposes like never before...They are on the march and filling the heads of most moderators with extreme rightist policy - their policy! If you do not act in their best interests you are out of a job-- It's a trend...media whores are bent over back wards to please their masters.

[Shwa]

"Western governments are actually are weak ones, they are controlled by the large interest groups."

First off, I enjoyed the ideological sparring between "freedoms" in China versus Canada. I 'get' both arguments. Sometimes our Canadian smugness needs to be challenged by someone "honest" enough to take it on whether they are ultimately right or wrong.

If you think freedom of expression is lighting a candle on Parliament Hill, try strapping some fake dynamite on your chest and then go to Parliament Hill and 'freely' tell all those burly RCMP you are going to blow up the Commons for some worthy cause or another. See how long you last. I am betting you'll be shot in the head before you can tell them the sticks of dynamite are a joke purchased at Bill's Joke Shop on Bank St.

Light a candle at Tiananmen Square? It is only a matter of degrees based upon the factors that the ruling government decides is necessary to keep order and peace. Because you think a candle is innocuous is only a perspective culled from your culture. Our 'western' culture sometimes thinks it is superior. One of it's sad failings.

However, to refer back to the quote above and address bjre, isn't the government of China also controlled by "large interest groups?" They might be comprised of different elements and have different goals and purposes, but they are - in effect - the same thing. And, with the growing middle class in China, eventually the distinctions between the composition of those groups in China or Canada or the West will disappear.

One point is accessibility to to membership of those large interest groups. I am not sure how one becomes a member of the large interest groups that control China's government, but I do know there is a reasonable chance for anyone to access membership in these groups in the West. There are restrictions of course, like any other group membership, but I am more interested in the similarities, not the disparities.