“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...

What you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

The signals will be significant nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/24/c...

“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...

Why won’t Canadian media touch controversial topics like transgender care? youtu.be/C7ky5FLl4kI?...

“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...

thehub.ca/2025/06/17/p... Peter Menzies: The mainstream media has a misinformation problem - The Hub

“no matter how many times some statements from Hamas have been shown to be, at best, gross exaggerations and, at worst, pure fantasy, news organizations continue to grant it credibility” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

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It’s out of control thehub.ca/2025/06/03/p...

“I knew it was bullshit because no one was asking the first question every journalist should ask about every story: ‘Is this true?’https://open.substack.com/pub/petermenzies/p/its-what-happens-when-canada-is-run?r=885ov&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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The ties that bind media and the Liberal party grow ever tighter thehub.ca Peter Menzies: With mainstream media in bed with the Liberals, Canada

“Unless it’s betting on Canada’s conversion into a one-party state, CBC should be working to prove that it is not, as so many obviously believe, a Liberal Pravda” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“The PM came across a lot more like Mr. Rogers than he did as the Captain Canada crusader many panicked, Liberal-voting boomers were convinced was coming.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“ As Bob Dylan famously wrote, whether, it’s the devil or the Lord (you decide which applies), we all have to serve somebody.” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...

“journalism exists to help satisfy, within the limit of human imperfection, the need of citizens for full, fair, accurate, balanced information from which they freely work out for themselves the course of their votes, their lives, and shared society” open.substack.com/pub/petermen...