By now you've heard about Fake News. But the Winnipeg Free Press has taken the concept a step further and has introduced Fake Views . What's that, you ask? Read on. The MSM is well aware that the news consuming public knows the tricks of Fake News and has no hesitation in outing biased opinion that's presented as "news". The WFP gets called out every day on their comments pages. So the Free Press has decided to re-package fake news as opinion or viewpoints, or even 'analysis' to give themselves deniability when the public points out that the story spins like a top. 'It's not us, it's the writer's opinion,' they can safely bleat, they think. This weekend the FP ran a piece of "analysis" on their editorial pages headlined "Manitobans favour putting price on carbon." The title was so absurd, we had to read further. It turns out the piece was written by Curtis Brown, a familiar name to Winnipeggers. He ...
The origin of the Usher of the Black Rod goes back to early fourteenth century England . Today, with no royal duties to perform, the Usher knocks on the doors of the House of Commons with the Black Rod at the start of Parliament to summon the members. The rod is a symbol for the authority of debate in the upper house. We of The Black Rod adopted the symbol to knock some sense and the right questions into the heads of Legislators, pundits, and other opinion makers.