Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The media coverage of this story is some of the most biased and misleading I've ever seen. Any story on this issue that makes no mention that the elected Wet’suwet’en council, and 19 other First Nations along the pipeline, have approved the project is essentially fake news. The number of media outlets that meet even the most basic criteria for truth and even-handedness is becoming vanishingly small. It terrifies me that most people today seem to get their news from 'news' sites that are essentially agitprop. |
the media has been very careful framing this. On every channel when they interview protesters or they're supporters they're very careful to ensure that they're young, female, and of course Indigenous. They've stopped interviewing angry males, and or angry non natives. They did it initially but they stopped doing it. At the same time anyone that they interview that's against the protest or pipelines is older and preferably mail.
I don't know if they're taking the lead from the Federal Government's media buy out program, but it does seem to go against the demographic of people that usually take time to watch the news or read papers. Its bizarre. But its highly stylized in framing a narrative.
Now a bit of a rant.
What did this government expect was going to happen. Reconciliation is not a strategy or a promise to them, its a buzz word, and a election promise that they feel that they could ignore after they got elected.
What the government in place did was talk about Reconcilliation in lofty terms, throw a few bucks at pet projects and have some tearful apologies and they thought that would be the end of it.
But when you have a government that does very little on the water quality issues, on housing issues, fights court awards on decisions concerning Indigenous treatment and residential housing. When you have a Prime Minister that smirks at native protestors and thanks them for their donation at a Liberal Fund raiser when they were protesting mercury poisoning. What do you think is going to happen.
When you combine this with a government that has basically made pipelines and Oil and Gas the enemy of the people, you bring together the Environmental Movement and angry Indigenous groups that see reconciliation pleas as what they are complete BS and Flim Flammery.
The problem is that the Liberals have now once again created a un winnable situation for themselves, and its their fault and the blame lies at the feet of Justin's handlers.
They've shown protest groups that they are on a winning track. Justin's weak response to this, the mewling begging letters by Ministers, the lack of law enforcement have shown these groups that they can effectively cripple the national economy at very little cost, and when the weather warms up, when pipeline construction and other infrastructure renews they'll be back in greater numbers.
The people that deserve the most sympathy are the protestors caught between a dishonest government who used them to get elected and failed to live up to any promises, funded environmental groups, and corrupt chiefs for example who take money from the government and siphon it into their own back accounts.
And those people that are caught in the middle are going to feel so much rage and lack of sympathy from Canadians that are seriously angry about these blockades, and a feeling like they're not being heard by the government.
Make no mistake, this whole thing is on Trudeau and the Liberals, they opened a literal tiger trap by talking about something to get elected and not following through, and in some place showing contempt for the very concept of reconciliation that they used to get elected, and this government is not smart enough to maneuver out of this without doing significant damage to this country on an international scale (investment damage, prestige)
At the same time, Justin doing his world tour for a useless UN Security Council seat while pitching money to repellant governments while not seeming to give two craps about this and basically throwing it at ministers incapable of handling this is a public relations disaster for him.
This Pandora's box is open now, and the last spectre at the bottom isn't hope, its a message from the old style maps, here there be monsters.