“Public Works Canada is awarding a $1.25 million contract to a
publicist to distribute government-vetted ‘news’ to publishers and radio and TV
stations. The budget for handout ‘news’ increased 25 percent from a previous
contract. The department said it wanted to ‘inform and educate Canadians
on public issues.’”
Tom Korski, Blacklocks Reporter December 19, 2014.
Gee, isn’t that wonderful the government wants ‘to inform
and educate Canadians on public issues.’? And this is all going to be done with
taxpayers’ dollars! Just think no more ignorance of what the Harper government
is doing to us oops, I mean doing for us.
We won’t have to think anymore, the government “news service” will keep
us all “informed” by sending out their messages to the corporate monopoly controlled
media. (And perhaps some bloggers) Dare one call this a convergence of
propaganda peddlers? Surely not, after all this is: “News Canada Ltd.”
“The publicist, News
Canada Ltd., said it gives editors handout stories free of charge bearing a
‘News Canada’
credit – ‘just like Canadian Press,’ said president Shelley Middlebrook.”
Wow, and all the government
stories are “free of charge” except of course it’s the taxpaying serfs who are
footing the bill for Harper’s propaganda peddlers, oops sorry I mean Mr.
Harper’s “public educators.” A cynical person might ask is all this taxpayer
funded “news;” propaganda, or abominable snow-jobs? A blizzard of taxpayers’ dollars is covering
the land to “educate” and “inform” Canadians. Could one call this a Con-job? Or
jobs for Cons-ervatives inside the Harper conservatives “news” fiefdom?
“Conservatism, as
defined by Ronald Reagan, was about getting government off the backs of the
people. Conservatism, as practised by team Harper, is more akin to an Orwellian
opposite. State controls are now at a highpoint in our modern history. There is
every indication they will extend further. The propaganda machine has become
mammoth and unrelenting.” Lawrence
Martin. Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 29 2011, 2:00 AM EST
Last updated Monday, Sep. 10 2012, 10:46 AM EDT
I believe what we are seeing is ‘unrelenting’ political
propaganda disguised as “news.” A huge bureaucracy of propaganda peddlers has
been created to further the agenda of, “The
Party of One.”(Title of a book on Stephen Harper by Michael Harris)
One man appears to be running this so-called “conservative”
government. Democracy is whatever he says it is, and his flunkeys parrot his
message under “talking points.” Huge amounts of taxpayers’ dollars and staff
are used to promote, publicize and parrot the Harper agenda. All paid for by
taxpayers’ dollars as mentioned earlier.
“When we’re spending
nearly as much on spin as we are on the House of Commons, we’re on a very
slippery slope indeed.
Last week, the Canadian
Taxpayers Federation released the head count and salary costs of the
federal government’s legion of information services staff.
The numbers, released
in response to an access to information request, reveal that 3,325 spin doctors
toil for the Harper government at an estimated cost this year of $263 million.”
Gregory Thomas, writing in the Toronto Star, August 3, 2014.
“The Harper
government has come under fire for spending tens of millions of dollars on
feel-good economic advertising and hundreds of thousands of dollars on media
monitoring.”
In summing up one can only ask: Are these the actions of a
political hypocrite? [1] Are
Canadians too busy watching hockey games and other sports to realize or notice
what is happening to our country under Stephen Harper [2] and the propaganda pushers?
“Like all marketers,
however, Harper doesn’t care about facts — just making the sale. It’s high
time the journalism business started feeding this government back its record of
deceit and dishonesty — and holding Harper to account.”
Michael Harris. ipolitics. Dec.11, 2014
Stephen J. Gray
December 20, 2014.
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