WHO TO BE MAD AT, AND DOES IT MATTER?
Thursday, October 28, 2021
What now, what’s next – does anyone know?
I like to watch weekend morning talk shows, those Sunday morning interview shows – they keep us abreast of what’s going on behind the scenes in Ottawa, in Washington and around the world, or do they?
If we ask, if we question media independence vs. partisan politics – who will win? – or are we wasting our breath and energy on an unanswerable or irrelevant question?
In the free speech democratization of information, we don’t have better news or value – we have more information without the clear separation between truth, opinion, and nonsense. This is everyone’s problem and also everyone’s opportunity – and we can only hope that one day humanity will see it as everyone’s responsibility.
Until then, hold your nose and grit your teeth …
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Trudeau named his new cabinet – and some appointments feel like a poke in the eye to Alberta (they are more like a stake through our heart), so it will be an interesting and possibly very costly winter in terms of high energy prices, wild-eyed rhetoric on political stages and we’ll probably have another election by springtime. Meanwhile, Mr. Kenney will deflect from his flagging popularity by attacking Ottawa and the Liberal government – it’s a well-worn playbook that has worked for previous premiers, but demographics have changed. Stay tuned …
Reader feedback:
Interesting observation about the news dump to my iPad beef I wake. And yes I do browse through it with my morning coffee. Not sure when I started doing that because for the longest time I had not perused a newspaper other than to glance at a headline for close to 50 years. I'm beginning to remember why. Somewhere back in the mists of time I worked summers for Canadian Press, a news agency, so called. I saw the raw copy that came in on the old teletypes from agencies across the globe, and I also saw how it was massaged, edited and spun before it was released to the subscribers; the various news outlets of the day. "The medium is the message.” Truer words were never spoke, or in this case, written. What I read now, especially the ‘woke’ aspect of what is becoming a seriously effed up society is making me nuts, never mind the looters in Ottawa who are focused on their own gains and not the realities of societal needs. Thats it… No more reading that tripe. There are other ways to stay informed than the predigested pap in the newsfeed, DM, Okotoks, AB