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David Asper, Leonard Asper and Izzy Asper
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The Aspers Contribution to a
Fascist New World Order:
Victims Peter Worthington, Doug Cuthand
and Stephen Kimber
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Nipawin - Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis |
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"The great masses of people. . .will more easily fall victims
to a big lie than to a small one"--Adolph Hitler
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- "News as the conversation of democracy"--Bill
Moyers
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policies
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- My interest in American political and economic scenario wasn't really caused
by my whim to look somewhere else for exciting news. The problem was that with the
horrific 9-11 attack I first felt touched as everybody else by the extreme
violence now engulfing North America; later, I realized how our international relationships
are so dependent on the United States domestic and foreign policies and how the analysis
of these policies can be immediately transferred to understand Canadian's (or other
countries') social and economic policies.
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direct
relationship
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- For example, we have referred to anti-terror legislation Bill 36 and we
found a direct relationship to the USA PATRIOT Act. Also, we covered the whitewashing
of the American corporate media and we found the same whitewashing of our CanWest
media run by the Asper family. It is interesting that as we have been
uncovering the legalized conspiracy of the Free Market so we have found its
connection with the military and economic power of the United States along with the
complementary erosion of democracies.
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ban
Worthington
media
essential
cheats
the
public
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It was just recently that I wrote an
article dealing with the fascist management of Saskatchewan health care, that
I mentioned how former Minister of Public Works Alfonso Gagliano would order
the hiring of his friends by governmental agencies, and today we have the Asper's
order to ban journalist Peter Worthington from writing in any of the Asper's
chain of newspapers.
We are definitely heading for a fascist New World Order ordered by the big
corporations and
fortunate sons, and therefore we must all exercise civil responsibilities to take
back individual rights and democracy. An independent media is essential for the functioning
of democracy and we are pleased that Peter Worthington has written an invective
against the Aspers' direction to command uniform and ideological national editorials
from their headquarter in Winnipeg.
Worthington mentions the Asper's killing of articles at the Montreal Gazette, the
killing of an article by Saskatchewan aboriginal journalist Doug Cuthand,
and the resignation of journalist and professor Stephen Kimber after he suggested that
the Aspers saw their newspapers as "promotion vehicles
for their television network" and as "private,
personal pulpits from which to express their views." Worthington
writes :
"I think the Aspers' mandatory editorial policy damages
their own reputations, hurts journalism in general, cheats the public of divergent
views and undermines Canada."
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Pertinent articles in Ensign |
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Blind
Faith, Shermelle Biffle, Grade 10/Salem High School, Virginia Beach, VA,
Elie Wiesel Student Writing Competition, http://www.holocaustcommission.org/writing_competition/1998/wiesel_competition_sr_winner_1_1998.html
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Do
the Media Affect the Democratic Process? Second Place Essay by Jonathan Keck
http://www.primett.org/medialiteracy/2001_contest/2001_second_essay.htm
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Bitten by the Aspers The latest victim in drive to ensure identical editorials
in all Southam papers is -- me! By Peter Worthington, January 15, 2002, Toronto Sun
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Montreal
Gazette reporters protest David Asper's one-size-fits-all editorial policy
http://www.injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Gazette_newsroom.htm
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