CBC Long on innuendo - Short on Facts

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda -- By Noam Chomsky
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14/11/21

CBC Long on Innuendo - Short on Facts

Tirades against freedom protesters are blatant propaganda

For one thing, they are not "anti-vaxxers": they are fighting against dictatorship and for freedom of choice!  What part of "freedom of choice" is too difficult for the CBC to understand?

When the most respected callings cave under government pressure, you know that Freedom is "slip-sliding away". (Simon & Garfunkel - YouTube)

The information's unavailable to the mortal man
We work our jobs, collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip sliding away ... from AZLyrics

And, when the formerly-respected care-takers don't want the public to detect their ignorance, or worse, their cowardice in the face of "authority", they can be pretty accusatory themselves:

CBC: Nov. 13: 'Under attack': Canadian health-care workers call for more protection from harassment and threats

• One health-care worker told CBC News under condition of anonymity that they received a suspicious package at their place of work that led to an evacuation.

Well ... what was in it?  What made it seem suspicious?  Without facts, this is not even hearsay, it's mere gossip.

• Antisemitism, racism, misogyny, unfounded character assassinations and disturbing threats of physical violence and even death.

That's not even a sentence!  Nor are these gross accusations backed up with verifiable examples.

This is gossip column material; not respectable, verifiable news. It's far too vague and, unfortunately, it suggests that health workers are into online media, generating angry, disappointed responses to their virtue-signalling and self-justification.

​Note: Not a single, verifiable example provided.  That's not news; that's propaganda, typical of the gov't-owned, apparently sociopathic CBC.

Are the hospital staff miffed now that the applause has died down and their "sacrifices" in the face of an imaginary "pandemic" are no longer lauded? Has Truth deprived them of the accolades they once received?

Two years provides time for people to reason things out, and as time drags on -- and more people see the light -- there will be increasing anger and disillusionment among the populace -- and they will no longer blindly bow the knee to health professionals.

The protesters being vilified are encouraged by woke medical personnel attempting to get out the truth about "Covid" and the dangers of the so-called"vaccine" -- only to be slandered by news media that know on which side their roasts are gravied.  "Presstitutes", I believe they're called.

You think that's unfair?  Witness the CBC's descent into ugly pejoratives when certain other medical personnel speak their truth:

CBC: Sept. 04

• The B.C. protests were organized by Canadian Frontline Nurses, a group founded by two Ontario nurses who have promoted conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and attended rallies in the United States for those who think the pandemic is a "fraud."

Good try, CBC, but when you have to fall back on the worn-out "conspiracy theories" pejorative, you don't have a story, you have a mission to bolster a tyrannical government.

• "We often like to think that we're not like our neighbours to the south," said Dr. Naheed Dosani, a physician and health-justice advocate in Toronto. "But this pandemic has shown that there's a lot of hate in this country."

Hate? That's your diagnosis Dr. Dosani? What kind of "health-justice advocate" are you?

You don't even know these people who are trying to protect the standard of freedom that Canada brags about in its national anthem.

Can you not see that you are no longer living in the "true North strong and free"; that you are living under tyranny?  In your heart, you probably know that, but you don't want to lose your authoritative image in society.  Good luck with that, especially since a number of your colleagues are choosing to join the freedom fight:

CMAJ.ca (PDF)

• ... physicians have protested the mandating of SARS- CoV-2 vaccines for health care workers, with some publicly sharing their decision not to be vaccinated and initiating lawsuits against health authorities.

And, by golly, when you've got an American news outlet saying that Canada is heading down a road to tyranny, instead of our own media pointing out the obvious, you know that protesters have good reason to be angry at the so-called health authorities:

FoxNews: COVID internment camps, coming soon to a country near you

• They're a fixture of Canadian life, so could they come across our northern border?
• Fail a COVID test and they’ll lock you up without trial. Go ahead and try to disobey. According to the Canadian government, anyone who attempts to avoid detention in a government internment facility could face a million-dollar fine and three years in prison. 
• This is Justin Trudeau’s Canada. It’s funny, Trudeau always seemed like a cheerful idiot, wearing weird costumes and yammering on about diversity. Who knew he was Mussolini?

Image: Original from Smithsonian
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(YYC: My first attempt at doctoring. Now you have to call me "doctor".)