in the first of an on-going series you'll find my take on the reportage happening today.
CBC radio I expect will be the main target. Because when it comes to news, I listen to them over any other station although the cow report on CFCW is worth a listen! I can't get enough moos from that quarter, the front quarter that is.
CBC will also be a target because I expect better than I usually get from Canada's broadcaster.
The overwhelming dominance and unthinking exuberance on all things Trump on CBC particularly galls me. The tenor is anti-trump but why give him time? And eah time he is mentioned it should be noted that he was elected without a majority of the vote. Most voters voted for his opponent.
Just cause there is a a thing called an electoral college does not make it democratic. You think no dictatorship before ever held a vote then overturned the result by saying a government body or a royalty or a "Citizens committee" is using its power to overrule the election. By calling it an electoral college does not make it right.
One pundit evens calls him a non-president. Anyways like Ford and Kenny, Trump is just the front man for an unthinking inchoate backlash against the movement of time and history.
The dominance of white blustering middle-age men, Big oil and materialism (big cars big houses) is threatened. and these guys are elected to try to hold back time. The fact they could be elected is mostly result of our unfair electoral system - see some of my other blogs for info on this.
So the CBC should give balance to their news by ignoring these dinosaurs or downplaying their significance and working to describe them as the passing phase that they are.
Today's news comment will be on the report this morning that the U.S. non-president called in his typical bombastic style that four black Senators should go back where they came from.
Strangely the CBC reported that they were Americans.
1. of course they are U.S. citizens - they could not be elected if they weren't.
2. That does not tell us if they are U.S. born or naturalized U.S. citizens (first -generation U.S.). If immigrants, not a bad thing, and not a reason for the non-president to instruct them so, but at least CBC would be saying something.
So that's my rant this morning.
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