Gladu’s about to become a profoundly unhappy and friendless person - a social chimney sweep in a room full of self-styled Etonians open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“This is not a pattern of behaviour consistent with the role of a press that, while campaigning for subsidies, insisted the money was needed to “defend democracy.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“The Dinger, as Bell is known by those of us old enough to remember our more rambunctious days, is the last of the blue collar journalists. “ open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“This is about a media ecosystem that has stopped pushing back. When we play along, we erode our own trust.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“It might also be worth letting the public know what the other 192-plus first nations in B.C. think about pipelines but, near as I can tell, no one has asked them.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“China’s political warfare arm, the united front, is believed to be supported, in part, by proceeds from a variety of criminal enterprises and receive guidance and direction through the Chinese Embassy and consulates in Canada.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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“it was bad enough that CTV posted a barefaced falsehood. What was worse ….” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“The late December skewering of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss simply for carrying out those duties demonstrated how dysfunctional that vital aspect of journalism has become.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“the federal government’s smorgasbord of subsidies for news organizations has “suspended these (news) entities in stasis.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“Though Cayley notes that Seven Days in no way invented “crusading journalism” it did introduce to the CBC the notion that journalists and producers were “agents of justice.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“I’m old-fashioned enough to think reporters shouldn’t be blatantly stating biases. Not a great way to retain public trust.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“too many titles continue to mask government sources feeding them strategic information and excuse the practice by claiming the sources are “not authorized.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“taxpayers in the West - the most likely to take offense from the cartoon - pay to subsidize the Toronto Star.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“We have known for 40 years that once Baby Boomers like your faithful servant turned bald and grey that the system would be unsustainable. But that single, terrifying “American-style” slur has halted reform at every turn.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“The pattern of behaviour indicates to the public that news organizations do not take their obligation to the truth seriously.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“Editor in Chief Brodie Fenlon confirmed that the CBC’s newsrooms are the least biased he’s ever worked in.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/cbc-cashes-in-on-carney-as-the-news?r=885ov&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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“an object lesson for why trust in legacy media has plummeted, and alt right media audiences have grown.”https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/how-one-major-media-torqued-its-coverage?

“Missing in media coverage were the voices of those who find repulsive the idea that Vancouverites should be denied the right to choose for themselves what events they find morally acceptable.” open.substack.com/pub/Petermen...

Journalists should not be easy prey for politicians open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“The test for media will be to see whether - as so far appears to be the case - they will comply and comfortably go along with the language shell game the government prefers or the language that best serves their readers” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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“it’s unlikely the Liberals will lose an election anytime in the foreseeable future. The overwhelming majority of media depends on them financially. Their appointees control the Senate, the courts, most public institutions, and decide which journalists you can trust.” thehub.ca/2025/10/07/p...

“Strings requiring compliance and promotion of “acceptable” views will eventually be attached to the funding. Almost every media will comply.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“A study of the former East Germany found that “decades of socialist rule left scars…of consensus (that) outlasted the Berlin Wall. “ open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“Eventually, I expect, all news organizations will have to take the cash - addiction, after all, is autonomy - and accept the regulations that will follow as sure as summer follows spring.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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“We all know there is not a single university in our country that would have permitted Kirk to speak, likely citing the “security” artifice that so often is accepted by media at face value.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“In a secular state, in an increasingly secularized society, reporters, commentators, editors must play a key role in preventing monopoly ideological expression.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“I can’t decide which one - confirmation bias, anchor bias, affinity bias or bandwagon bias - best applies. Maybe all four.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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The defence of the powerful is a new first instinct in journalism open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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“people running the shows may have a preference for one genre of BIPOC voice over others. In other words, their version of diversity is only skin deep and is more likely a ruse to curry political and social favour” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“Coincidence? Are they all in the same chat group or did they each get the same email? Did no editor wonder what happened to the once popular “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” theme struck by Trudeau in his prime?” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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“Most “could happen” stories, however, are a function of reporters desperate for news being too lazy to go out and dig some up. The result is frequently a species of embarrassing idiocy. “https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/journalism-ceases-to-exist-when-it?r=885ov&utm_medium=ios

“That was then, apparently, and this is now. Or, more accurately, that was Harper and this is Carney.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

““I wish more Canadian news organizations were as vigilant as ABC News in protecting their reputations by insisting employees keep their yaps shut and their fingers idle.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...