Canadaland Short-Cuts: Cops Vs. Reporters

[Michael Hardner]

Two great topics in this week's Short-Cuts:

 

1. Montreal journalist bugged by police, with the compliance of the judiciary, seems to be a fishing expedition.  With all of the concern about 'government surveillance' on here in the past, it's curious that not one person has posted about this.  While I defended the Federal Government's power to surveil email and phone calls for security reasons, I acknowledged the likelihood of abuse.  And here it is happening.

The good news is that we at least have a paper trail, and the police are seeking warrants to do this.  The bad news is that those warrants are granted.

Why doesn't MLW care about this ?  Given the hysteria about lost 'rights' in the past, the silence over this is indeed puzzling.  I suspect that those who squawk the most about 'rights' enjoy speculating and shivering in fear over the 'New World Order' more than they enjoy following the actual news.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/montreal-police-spy-on-journalist/

 

2. Discussion about the CBC, the government, and the media.  One idea I liked very much would be to have the CBC establish digital news bureaus regionally.  This seems like a better fulfillment of their mandate than making expensive TV shows nobody watches.  What do you think ?

 

http://www.canadalandshow.com/shows/shortcuts/

(Scroll down to Cops vs Reporters)

 

[Cum Laude]

Canada has reporters. Whoda thunk it. I thought all you canucks had were Justin bootlickers. I lear something every day.

[Michael Hardner]

It's supposed to be funny... but let's take our comments about moderation to the Support and Questions forum and leave this thread to comment on the Canadaland podcast or topics they covered.