Warped&Woven

@Izzy74 @krushowy #cdnmedia #onted Some say dress code. (Why?) Some say human rights. (Why?) Some just want to mock and jest and disrupt. Social media gives everyone (even me) a platform. And here we are a half year later and I am not really any wiser about this Oakville story.

Some people don't know when to quit.

Clicks and likes are pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things it seems to me. Maybe the poster is wondering how many people are detail-oriented nit-pickers.

#CdnMediaWhereAreYou The logic behind paywalls does make sense if you consider that someone (readers?) has to pay for the labour & delivery of journalism. But I do not understand how it works when you paywall someone else's work. Or have I misunderstood what @TorontoStar did?

Yes, agreed that "The impulse of the imposter press to heighten the partisan nonsense and disinformation is troubling" but when mainstream news uses loaded words like "hoard" and possibly extraneous info re collector coins I wonder was the mint otherwise in the news in '16 maybe?

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While I have so far merely skimmed the "more fulsome" report I do wonder why @globeandmail considered publishing the article they did for a non-technical general Canadian audience when the report itself points out on page 109 the following limitations of the author's work.

Hyperbole that distorts the basis of our understanding of public policy - "government makes money" - is populist tosh, it's corrosive, and it's institution destroying. We've seen what that rhetoric has wrought in the US. We should denounce it here. Fine, change the basis. 1/

the answer is to fix those problems, nor attack *all* development charges as government "making money." 3. And those parks and libraries ... if development charges don't pay for them, then taxes will go up, or services will be cut. This is the core of my objection to populism. /2

Phone spoofing, private surveillance and online campaign target the Globe's @CarrieTait after reporting on #Alberta Health Services allegations theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Original purpose or current purpose(s)? Whose stunt is it? There is always a possibility that plagiarism could be involved.

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

Determining the right places to look (online and off) is harder than advertised or than it needs to be or than it should be it seems to me.

And I think it is absolutely not terrific that Canadian news organizations (all of them that cross my path anyway) publish truly questionable stories from outside our borders as well as producing their own head-scratchers which seem to never be resolved in any later reporting.

Almost comical but really not unexpected given how too much of the world seems to work (or not work). And if you really were a Marxist you would surely have asked the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada to help you run.

Wikipedia says "The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party" but I do wonder where any reporting of this affiliation being severed is. And I guess eliminating candidate deposits seemed straightforward at first.

Will this Longest Ballot characterization be embraced? This article quotes an Independent candidates helped by the Longest Ballot Committee -- "This is no protest for me. It's the real deal. And they're just offering a beautiful, fantastic democratic service," he said.

There must be a better way. #CdnMediaWhereAreYou

And it seems to me that mainstream media has been complicit of late in spreading misleading terminology and fostering "AI" misunderstanding in the general public who are not tech experts but who would like to be generally informed about how the world works and changes.