Do you see what I see? A guided tour
To be viewed in tandem with the previous post on Trust and Ethics in Media
?In the previous post, I presented a series of 8 “exhibits” in order to get at answers to these questions:
Is Canadian mainstream media actually FREE or is it BLOCKED, IMPEDED, RESTRICTED or otherwise constrained?
and
How can we TRUST the Media, when it is constrained by Outside Forces?
After viewing the exhibits on your own and thinking your thoughts, I invite you to open a second tab to toggle back and forth between the exhibits and my running commentary shared here...
https://followingthecovidscience.substack.com/p/do-you-see-what-i-see-a-guided-tour
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
