Mia Sosiak - Biased Journalism at its Best!
December 1, 2006 · By H. Cameron
Aaron brings up Rick Bell’s obvious bias against Ted Morton, but anyone who actually heard the question asked by the Global journalist Mia Sosiak will agree it was more than goofy, it was downright pathetic:
Mia Sosiak:
Mr Morton,
You’re perceived as a far right candidate, you’re opposed to same-sex marriage and you’re endorsed by religious groups, including Concerned Christians Canada. As leader, will you push your personal principals down the throats of Albertans or will you compromise your own beliefs to reach out to more moderate voters - which is it?
Is this what passes as honest and balanced journalism these days? What qualifies this women to ask questions to the potential leaders of Alberta? She and Rick must be exchange talking points.
Do you know if the debate is online somewhere? I missed it.
You can listen to it by going to QR77’s website and clicking on the AudioVault feature:
http://www.am770chqr.com/stati.....embers.cfm
You’ll need to sign up, but that whole debate is there on streaming radio.
video is here on globaltvcalgary.ca
scroll down, the debate is devided into 5 topics.
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/calgary/index.html#
Canadian democracy consists of women, brown people, atheists, gays, and other professional victims manifesting their overpowering, redlining hatred of, frankly, able bodied white males in the form of all-out war.
I see female journalists like Sosiak pull this sort of crap all of the time (Taber, etc.) and it appears to me that - even accounting for pinktards like Rick Bell and George Snuffleupagus - we just hold female journalists to a standard well below that of adults.
Sosiak:
“What qualifies this women to ask questions to the potential leaders of Alberta? ”
I think being a citizen, or are we living in cuba?
Her question was a caricature of itself. It could have just as easily been planted by a Morton supporter for him to (1) swat that kind of question away and (2) make the person asking it look very very stupid.
That is exactly what I was thinking Tom.
Tom, Lynndon,
you’re defending her pathetic attempt to label Morton an extremist? If so, you’re as pathetic as she is,
Doubtful - but if so, its still pathetic. If it was planted and she still asked the questions, she’s nothing more than a puppet.
What is more important than how good or how bad the question was - or whether or not the question was planted - is how Morton actually answered. Politicians get asked questions all the time. How the answer them determines public opinion.
Anyone have the text of his answer?
Because that would be worth discussing, rather than being little cry babies over whether or not the question was biased or intelligent or whether or not the journalist was qualified to ask it.
Sheesh.
Crybabies?
Jeezzz, who’s the one being juvenile now?
I don’t have time to transcript the whole debate - do us all a favour and do you own research before you comment. The link to the audio and video are above, be my guest to add your comments afterwards.
Speaking of downright pathetic, I hope Morton is better at answering questions than you are, then.
The answer is more important than the question.
That was kind of my point.
“Speaking of downright pathetic, I hope Morton is better at answering questions than you are, then.”
So, you’re Supportin’ Morton then?
H.Cameron isn’t a candidate.
I think Morton effectively swatted the question down. He quickly pointed out how loaded the question was, and then argued that Bill C-208 is about protecting civil liberties and that according to survey research, Albertans oppose SSM by about 2/3. This statistic is largely true, but needs to be qualified. The surveys I’ve seen (none too recently) have shown that 1/3 of Canadians support SSM, 1/3 support civil unions but not SSM, and 1/3 support oppose both SSM and civil unions. Even though the definition of marriage is a federal issue, I think Morton should state which 1/3 he supports. Such a move would also defuse some of the “Morton is a scarey so-con” rhetoric.
What’s amazing is that Morton refused to compromise or moderate his positions last night. He’s clearly confident that he can win by appealing even further to his own base.
It will be interesting to see how the contributions of the Conservative MPs for Morton manifest themselves on Saturday.
You had a point? I must have missed is amongst all the self-righteous tripe you often spew.
Why look to malice when laziness and incompetence suffice? I thought the strangest question of the night was actually Fletcher Kent’s question to Stelmach about a Mike Nickel quote falsely attributed to Ted Morton. That adds up to 1/3 of the questions being when will Morton stop beating his wife. I don’t expect the correction to appear in the media.
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