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Corporate support for BC Liberals is not equivalent to union support for BC NDP

A sore point for supporters of the right-wing BC Liberals is that their party seems so financially beholden to corporations. An immediate retort is that the NDP is equally beholden to unions. The NDP, in other words, is just as bad, so let’s move on.  The problem with this response is that, in British Columbia, [...]

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Sun Media Brings Fox News to Canada

This is almost hilarious. It must be the most absurd media promo I’ve ever seen – as if it’s a parody made by the people at The Colbert Report or The Onion. Unfortunately, these yahoos are serious.   Posted by Colin Welch at 8:21 PM Edited on: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:20 PM  

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Media bias: yet more evidence

Right-wing corporate media bias is pretty strong in Canada. From the type of stories chosen and emphasized, to the spin and language used to differentiate NDP policies from Conservative, it’s hard to consistently hear and read progressive perspectives in this country. And though ownership and management are by far the most important elements of media [...]

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The Georgia Straight on Post-Secondary Spending in the Valley

The Georgia Straight, and its online version, the straight.com, are useful sources for news, investigative journalism and media criticism. Amid its pop culture pap and racy personal ads, the Straight can deliver articles of surprising quality on topics rarely seen in BC’s corporate media. Here’s a recent article on the imbalance of spending on post-secondary [...]

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