Thursday, September 2, 2010

2822...Marg Atwood: Anti Free Speech

And seriously, if our English teachers didn't make us buy her friggin' books she would be working at a Tim Horton's in Oshawa, the big one mind you and she would probably be assistant manager but she would still be at Tim's.

The old bag of wind was all over the Tweets today and The Canadian Press coz she is suddenly a cultural warrior, wrapping herself in the flag the way she did back in the day when NAFTA was going to be death of us. Today the windmill that she is tilting against is the proposed Sun TV news channel has caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter. "Atwood tweeted Tuesday that she'd signed a petition called "Stop Fox News North" at avaaz.org and encouraged others to join her."

Pray tell could this be the same Ms. Atwood who visited Israel and accepted the $1,000,000 Dan David Prize, despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, and a request to boycott from The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel . Upon recieving the certified cheque and/or money order at Tel Aviv University in May 2010. Atwood commented that "...we don't do cultural boycotts".

Unless it suits her.

WFDS
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6 comments:

  1. fern hillSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:05 PM

    What the hell are you doing on ProgBlogs? You're prolific but stupid.

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  2. World Famous Dan ShieldsSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    But what do you really mean?

    WFDS

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2010 at 9:59 PM

    I believe her issue is that the media company will be put in place by Harper replacing the head of the CRTC with a crony in order to get Faux North onto the "basic" cable bundle, not free speech, as your headline indicates, in the fashion of Sun Media. From the Globe and Mail, "Ms. Atwood's concern is not with the network’s proposed agenda. Instead, she’s worried about potential interference by the Harper government.

    “Some people signing the petition object to the expected content. I object to the process,” she told The Globe. “It's the [prime ministerial] pressure on yet another civil servant that bothers me. These folks are supposed to be working for the taxpayer, not the PM.”
    SM

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  4. wilsonSeptember 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM

    That little petition is a fraud,
    so says Coyne, Wells, Kady...

    http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/2010/09/02/18:48/soros-funded-group-avaaz-org-is-fudging-signatures-on-their-online-petition-to-stop-sun-tv-in-canada/

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  5. thescottross.blogspot.comSeptember 3, 2010 at 12:04 AM

    Any point you had is lost in your rudeness.

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  6. ridenrainSeptember 3, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    It bothers me that freedom of speech is only good when we agree with it. I definately don't accept Aljazzera's point of view but I still wouldn't protest their broadcast. This is just narrow minded censorship.

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