Thread by @sunnshiiny

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Here is how people like Lilley assess the media:

Lilley doesn’t believe in facts and truth. He believes in post truth. Might makes right and those with the $ determine what’s true.

Current laws and ethics force media to rely on facts & actual true information.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey That’s the bias Lilley is referring to.

Law and order, broadcasting laws, the inability to outright lie in media like Fox News does. Think Hannity and you’ll know what I mean. Hannity “reports” completely bogus disinformation. Fake news that doesn’t have an ounce of truth.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Canadian legislation limits how media portrays the far right. Because of laws put in place to keep information truthful and based on facts. But mainstream media has found a way around those laws and regulations. They need to be tightened up.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Watch Vassy interview a conservative. It’s painful. She asks softball questions, she only occasionally fact checks, she allows run on screeds full of lies and smears, she refuses to stop interruptions from cons and NDP. She lights up and smiles talking to cons, scowls with LPC.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey That’s how Vassy gets around broadcasting regulations. She isn’t lying. The station isn’t broadcasting disinformation, they are just providing the platform for those that do.

Vassy brings up LPC scandals as often as possible to remind viewers of ethics rulings.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Not a word about con follies and foibles, or crimes.

It technically meets the guidelines and regulations standards of offering both sides, but an astute viewer knows much is missing from Vassy’s performance and the bias to con platform and policy is abundantly clear.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Print media is a bit different. By reporting on what politicians say and removing the political analysis or fact checking, cons are able to say the garbage disinformation they want and media is “just” reporting it. Not endorsing it either way.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey Again, the absence of fact checking makes disinformation campaigns easy through MSM.

Another trick is the sudden plethora of opinion pieces being offered. Truth is relative when it comes to opinion. Many don’t see the difference between a journalist’s report and opinion piece.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey To fight fascism, we need to be aware of the tactics being used to manipulate the public narrative.

Mainstream Media leaves it to network conservative news outlets to publish total BS. They have no regulations. Then they report that con insiders are talking about the BS.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey They keep their reputations and broadcasting licenses and the nation is gaslit no less than if they watched Fox News.

Americans are brash and boorish. Canadians are subtle and passive aggressive.

@MgS_2011 @brianlilley @anthonyfurey That’s why legislation like this is essential to fight fascism.

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