Global TV Toronto is campaigning for Federal and Provincial Liberals all in one promo
Sometimes I’m forced to watch Global TVs 5:30 news. Sometimes I linger long enough, past the dire Global Warming footage, and “green” energy announcements, to catch the promo for the six o’clock Global Toronto News. You know, the promos where the local figureheads are walking around Toronto, touting about how much they know about what’s going on. What I saw last night had me falling off my chair.
The promo starts. Here we have the two figureheads, Anne Mroczkowski and Leslie Roberts. They are in a gym and an irate guy comes up to them with a bill complaining about how expensive it has gotten. The figureheads reply (paraphrasing):
Oh, yes, the bill has gone up another 8% when the HST was introduced. Ottawa is taking that money and giving less of it back to Toronto.
Here’s the thing. I, and people who read my blog on a regular basis, know this is utterly false and misleading. The extra 8% on top of the gym bill constitutes the PST portion of the HST, and, of course, ends up at Queen’s Park, NOT in Ottawa. Ottawa does not get ANYTHING extra from the HST, and is in fact, out $4B that it has given to the province to ease the transition. I am worried about the average (brain-dead) viewer in Toronto though, who just laps up anything Global serves to them. And this promo is exempting McGuinty, whom we desperately have to get out of office this fall.
Problem is, that this is a promo for a NEWS SHOW. They are supposed to report the news, not promote any one political party over another. However, in one promo it is helping Dalton McGuinty in exempting him from the higher HST bills, AND laying the blame solely on The Harper Government (see what I did there?).
I think Global Toronto is starting to see McGuinty might lose this fall!
Need a link to this promo video. I you have one, let me know!
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7 COMMENTS
1 Selma
Gee, and I’ve thought of Global as being anti-McGuinty compared with, say, CTV. There is no much misinformation floating around, people are blaming Harper for provincial woes, the province for federal issues, etc. I maintain there should be a short, simple test people have to pass in order to vote, with questions such as “Who is the premier of Ontario?” and “Who is your MPP?”. I’ll bet 50% of them would fail.
2 Gel
Ok Folks … here it is… time to start watching very careful;ly all the Media outlets, CBC, Global,CTV especially… and newspapers…the Globe, and The Star in particular… ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT THESE SO CALLED NEWS OUTLETS are not simply Fabian socialist propaganda machines is completely brainwashed.
True the Conservatives have replaced a number of former Liberal leftist at the top level of the CBC… but they have only had a couple of years to start effecting a cultural change in the MEGA CORPORATION of the CBC… which has been a Liberal Leftist mouthpiece since Trudeau made it a crown Corp in the 70′s!!!!!!!
any aspiring socialist regime Knows the first 5 things you need to assume control of to subject a country to socialism are: Monetary system,Transportation sytems, Energy, Police/military, and MEDIA!
do a little research on Trudeau and the crown corp’s he created and then appointed executives to … and always remember that TRUDEAU WAS a card carrying member of the communist party and CANADA”S FIRST SOCIALIST PRIME MINISTER!
3 Ontario Girl
Sounds like NDP Laytons ad, where he was calling the HST the Harper tax. McGuinty picked it up after making Ontario a “HAVE NOT PROVINCE”, then he raised hydro rates. Can’t expect the truth anymore from the media. Why isn’t CBC , CTV, & Global showing these TRUTHS on The National…a real eye opener to the Liberals, entitled to their corrution…..
http://climbingoutofthedark.blogspot.com/2011/03/opposition-and-msm-going-back-in-time.html
4 Richard Wolfe
I sent an email to Global last night re: the bias reporting and Liberal drum beating. Read “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg for a great insight into the North American media bias.
5 Erwin
@Richard, did you get a response? (just kidding!)
6 Joshua
Its curious since the Tories gave me a GST cut by 2% but then the provincial liberals under Mcslippery raised my taxes with the HST.Did i mention i make less than 30k a year?Im not stupid.I see my food bill.And on my budget i cant relate to Jack Layton expense account or zero foreign policy.You could say i can afford to vote Tory since they are the only ones giving me a break.
I deal with the mega media corps by getting information on my own and vote accordingly.The wife tracks the libs and i track the cons.
7 business review
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