In Toronto We Don't Only Report The News We Also Make It Up

Blazing Cat Fur: Toronto Star Linked To "Edits" Of Rob Ford Wikipedia Page
It is alleged a computer has been traced to the Toronto Star is responsible for editing the Wikipedia page of candidate for Mayor Rob Ford.

Visit Rob Ford directly here.

"The greatest problem with news is not that journalists are influenced by their perceptions," Haskell writes. "The greatest problem is that news audiences do not realize journalists are influenced by their perceptions."

Anyone see a copy of the Code of Conduct on Journalistic Ethics lately?

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Canadians Pay Price For Liberal's Petty Politics

Angelo Persichilli hits another one out of the ball park.

The opposition — in this case the Liberals — has no interest in abandoning petty politics based on innuendo and character assassination. That means it’s up to the government — in this case the Conservatives — to move beyond the poisoned environment that has characterized Canadian politics for the past 10 years.

A senior party strategist noted that the Liberal advance team, seeking to highlight the government's alleged tardiness in spending stimulus money, had used the wrong field for an Ignatieff photo op last week, and that the park wasn't scheduled for construction until next year anyway. "In our rush to dump Stephane Dion, we have given ourselves John Turner," he sighed. Don Martin September 28, 2009

Angelo Persichilli is the political editor of Corriere Canadese.

Angelo Persichilli, an award-winning political journalist, writes each Sunday for the Toronto Star. Persichilli is the political editor of Corriere Canadese, the Italian daily newspaper headquartered in Toronto.

He has been a political columnist for the Toronto Sun and The Hill Times.

Previously, he was vice president, corporate development and news programming and public affairs, at CFMT (now Omni). In this capacity, he oversaw the production of Channel 47's daily news telecasts in Chinese, Italian and Portuguese. 

Persichilli is the recipient of the Canadian Ethnic Journalist's and Writer's Club award for excellence in journalism reflecting multicultural issues. He has also won several national awards for his contributions to broadcasting.

Hard to sustain can only mean one thing Michael. Hard for your ego to sustain.

Despite the fact that Harper's party got 143 seats and yours got about half that many, you felt it the voters outcome the people's outcome was hard to sustain...And so now you want another election another 300 million spent. The issue? There is no issue, except the one your old nemesis just referred to. The idea of you not being power is too hard to sustain.-Charles Adler

Wolf to Iggy

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Toronto Star: No Respect For Taxpayers?

The Toronto Star is failing to provide context in how much Federal Tax dollars are returned to Toronto. The Toronto Star may have taken the advice of Frank Graves, in invoking a "cultural war" and the "culture of entitlement."

However, last year, the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), chose to sport tshirts with swastikas while they ambled down the street chanting "Fist by Fist, Blow by Blow, Apartheid State, Has Got to Go."Israel stands out as the only country in the Middle East where gay rights are respected on a par with other Western nations. Gay Pride rallies, for instance, are common in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities -- while the staging of such events in the Palestinian territories or any other part of the Arab world would almost certainly end in a bloodbath of dead gay paraders. If organizers cannot bring themselves to ensure participants keep their displays "on message," why should municipal, provincial or federal taxpayers have an obligation to foot the bill?

 

Why restrict the Poll to Federal Tax dollars of Toronto's Gay Pride? Did the Toronto Star miss the participation of groups that are political?

The early results are very interesting. Are all candidates running for the Mayor of Toronto pandering,  demanding the Federal Government provide funding indefinitely for a local event? What do the voters polled in the Toronto Star Poll think? Over 63% are against continuing FEDERAL tax dollars to fund Toronto's Gay Pride. Where is the respect for the taxpayers?  Luckily voters in Toronto can elect Rob Ford. He did not blame the Federal Government, which has contributed to over 500 projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars and invoke an adversarial relationship.

“I’ve always said the public sector shouldn’t be funding parades, no matter what parade it is,” Ford said. “The private sector should be sponsoring these parades.”

Martin Gladstone, a Toronto-based Jewish gay lawyer who has witnessed the anti-Israel messaging in past parades, implored Pride organizers to remain apolitical, arguing that allowing any group with a political mandate to march in the parade is contrary to Pride’s non-profit “LGBT human rights mandate,” and that “gay pride has nothing to do with anti-Israel advocacy.”

Gladstone said he feared that the rise of anti-Israel, “and by extension anti-Jewish,” political messaging could threaten Pride’s existence and funding if legally challenged.

“The law is clear,” he wrote to the Pride council this year. “You cannot allow a non-profit corporation to facilitate political advocacy unrelated to its charter.” -CJNEWS

It's no good pretending the vicious anti-Zionism of the apartheid crowd is free of anti-Semitism. Many Jews do feel threatened by it, and rightly so. Some will no longer attend the parade out of discomfort. Typically of others I interviewed, lesbian Denise Alexander told me that the 2009 parade was "the first time I've ever felt unsafe as a Jew in Toronto." It wasn't only the words, "Down with Israel" or "The end of Israel": "It's the tone ... and the veins sticking out in their necks, like in Nazi Germany."

Harassment & Intimidation at Toronto's Pride Parade 2009 from josephinejosephine on Vimeo.

The film explores the explosive controversy that surrounded the 2009 Toronto Gay Pride Parade by the inclusion of groups that branded Israel an apartheid state.

Offering exclusive footage of the annual parade that has become Toronto’s top attraction, Reclaiming Our Pride illustrates how Pride is being hijacked by groups that have nothing to do with the celebration of gay rights.

Additional reading:

Gays and Israel Apartheid Week...

Queen's Park Shows Leadership Against Destructive Campaign Against Israel

CPC Led Government Demostrates Best Friend Status With Israel: Coalition Not So Much!

Cultural Wars: Teabaggers Canadian Style

Stand up for Israel 

 Toronto's-No-Go-Zones-For-Zionists 

Toronto Star Reviving Liberal Policy

David Akin: Liberal ridings get $1 million out of $69 million highway fund

Perhaps those who don't think the Toronto Star has done a balanced piece in viewing the concerns of should contact the editorial staff. here. It is not difficult when an editorial does not support the political party in Ottawa. Should they be more careful in providing context and facts.

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Toronto Star Reviving Liberal Policy

I give Jim Travers credit for playing the shell game in how to pin this on the CPC. Jimbo is trying to dampen the pride in our Olympics by recycling the detainee issue as an issue for the voters in March 2010. As the main cheerleader for the Liberals his position was threatened by Don Martin for several weeks. I can say without reservation if a Gold Medal was given for publishing Liberal talking points on a regular basis, Jim Travers would be the Olympic champion.

 

The CPC inherited the Liberal led government Program & Policies and made improvements. Only those who have a vested interest in weakening the current government on unproven allegations without ANY evidence have been pushing this agenda.

...the Prime Minister can only hope that next week's throne speech and budget will distract attention from something much worse: Worry that Canadians turned a systemically blind eye to their allies' shameful methods.  - Jim Travers Toronto Star Feb 25, 2010

 Thank you for confirming 'out of touch' narrative with most Canadians again during the most watched Olympics in our history.

In Montréal, Vancouver and Ottawa-Gatineau total weekly readership has remained unchanged since 2000. Readership has shifted from paid dailies to a combination of paid, free and online newspapers. In Toronto the migration acrossplatforms is similar, however this market is so fragmented that there has been a decline in total weekly readership.

They are resorting to giving it away for free during the Olympics.

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Will The Toronto Star Insult France?

Will the Toronto Star insult the French President for a diversion or a photo op as they have done with our own Prime Minister on his visit to Haiti?

Update Farewell University Tour UofT: Young Liberal interviewed "not indentified"

Background Media Bias, cozy relatioship or just lazy?

After the CBC ran into a objectivity problem with using a Mark Sakomoto, a Liberal in the H1N1 lineup did the Toronto Star repeat the same oversight?

Fall out:

The Lib-CBC Mutual Admiration Society

November 04, 2009  Lorne Gunter

The first ethical lapse was Sakamoto's: He should have told the reporter who he was and declined to do the interview. When I worked in Ottawa -- for the Liberals -- we refused all the time. We weren't impartial players and it would have been dishonest to affect the public debate by pretending we were, so we were instructed to refuse participation even in opinion polls.
Then there is the lapse at the CBC. It seems hard to believe that no one in the production cycle recognized Sakamoto as a former network lawyer and insisted his brief appearance be snipped out. Maybe no one did, but if someone did and did not insist on editing him out, then this is an ethical lapse on par with Sakamoto's.
This incident adds to the impression that the Liberals and the CBC are too cozy with one another, even if it was entirely accidental.

Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/04/the-lib-cbc-mutual-admiration-society.aspx#ixzz0VtL4hkPt

Toronto Star is it reporting the News or offering the Liberal Party unreported ad space?

The U of T grad, who was also a professor at Harvard University before he became federal Liberal leader, faced a few protesters who urged him to go back to Massachusetts.

"Just so you know," he told about 600 people in a packed lecture hall, "I'm not going anywhere, because I'm home."
"We have to persuade you, voter by voter, heart by heart, soul by soul, that this business called politics is worth doing."
It's a process, he said, "about whether we shape the future or the future shapes us."
Romina Siddiqui, 21, a fourth-year economics student, said Ignatieff's appearance was "very inspiring."
"I think he motivates youth to get involved in politics, to try and make a difference for the future of Canada," she said.

Perhaps the Toronto Star reporter should include the student is she belongs to Young Liberals? Must be a coincidence? You decide.


 Is this the same person? The name is at the bottom of the screen capture.

Young Liberals link here .