The setup of the Old Port riot
La Presse’s Isabelle Hachey reveals the role of the far right media in the Old Port riot on Sunday night.
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Raymond Lutz 07:40 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
Surprise. And just don’t search for “far right”+”police” … The co-optation is every where: USA, Germany, France, Greece…. But surely not here, le plus meilleur pays du monde! Where is L’aut’journal when you need it?
Ephraim 09:36 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
The question is, should we allow them to be called PRESS/MEDIA when they are affecting the news? We really need a PRESS/MEDIA authority. You shouldn’t be allowed to use the word NEWS if it’s clearly unbalanced and certainly not if you aren’t an observer.
Daniel 10:43 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
We’ve certainly seen the downsides of lies passing for “news,” but I hope we don’t enter a world where the government decides what’s news.
Kate 11:08 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
There’s the Canadian news media council and there’s the Quebec Conseil de presse (to which Quebecor notoriously refuses to belong), which do uphold standards, but anyone (ahem) can run a blog (or, if they have enough cash behind them, a larger media site) that exists outside these bodies.
qatzelok 12:18 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
MSM: “It’s them, the other media – they’re the ones causing all the problems, smashing windows, etc.
We’re just innocently selling SUVs and weaving oligarch-friendly narratives.”
Kate 14:04 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
Snark all you like, qatzelok, most journalists stick to ethical principles about truth and honesty.
Nick 14:12 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
The line between activist and artist has been blurred. The line between actor and journalist erased.
Ephraim 14:29 on 2021-04-13 Permalink
@Daniel – In the UK, you just can’t label opinion as news. So you can’t call Tucker Carlson news, because it’s clearly not. There is no attempt to show all sides of an argument, to show any type of balance. Essentially Fox News isn’t News.
@Kate – And that’s the problem. Levant isn’t just reporting, he’s actually intervening and at that point, it’s not news and he shouldn’t have a right to a press pass or to call it news. Youtube demonitized them… sometimes called the Adpocalypse. Last night they posted videos of Sunday’s riot as to suggest that it was another riot. That’s NOT news!
Chris 09:28 on 2021-04-14 Permalink
Don’t worry, I’m sure that in the fairy tale world of defunded and disarmed police, such protests will become smaller, less frequent, and less violent. /s