tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post2680871643178324855..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: Diane Francis, National PravdaDaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-53545029136434993812009-02-02T18:36:00.000-08:002009-02-02T18:36:00.000-08:00I don't get how Francis of the National Post and o...I don't get how Francis of the National Post and others can argue that putting newspapers on the government payroll will further democracy. It's sounds like a giant step toward totalitarianism to me. <BR/><BR/>I remember a Marxist instructor at College explaining how the newspapers were actually interfering with democracy because they were part of vertical integration of corporations. And now we're supposed to believe that they'll preserve democracy if we integrate them with the gov't. <BR/><BR/>The National Post is not "too big to fail" just like Conrad Black was not too big to go to jail.reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-54600437642240207532009-02-02T18:15:00.000-08:002009-02-02T18:15:00.000-08:00She's definitely better at it than I; bit I'm way ...She's definitely better at it than I; bit I'm way cheaper. I'll sell out for next to nothing. Please feel free to try me. <BR/><BR/>"Bloggers? Oh, I hate them."<BR/><BR/>(We can negotiate for more.)Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-55371767599313186342009-02-02T18:05:00.000-08:002009-02-02T18:05:00.000-08:00Diane Francis is definitely an opportunist.Diane Francis is definitely an opportunist.reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-70670907875222469502009-02-02T00:16:00.000-08:002009-02-02T00:16:00.000-08:00It's not surprising that someone in Francis' posit...It's not surprising that someone in Francis' position or Harper's would "sell-out". What do they have to gain by holding firm to anything? An idea is just an idea, easier to change than to change ones socks. And if one is at a risk of loss over a thing like an idea, why waste time before changing to something more comfortable? <BR/><BR/>Religious people, not the Anglicans, thank you, but real ones have what we refer to as convictions. So too did the Communists. Today we have opportunists and nihilists and few of any real conviction. <BR/><BR/>Conviction cuts both ways: one is free if unconvicted; but one is convicted if one believes. If we believe in your gilt, off you go to incarceration. If you believe in your guilt, maybe off you go to freedom. Conviction is a word similar in that way to "passion."<BR/><BR/>Yeats writes: "The best lack all conviction; while the worst are filled with passionate intensity."<BR/><BR/>Is the government going to throw money at me for this? Not today, but maybe someday if I befriend someone in a position to throw money at me. Your money, by the way. That fills me with passionate intensity.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-28381906020274702962009-02-01T23:38:00.000-08:002009-02-01T23:38:00.000-08:00dag,I have only read Diane Francis' column two or ...dag,<BR/><BR/>I have only read Diane Francis' column two or three times but I found her to be a defender of free enterprise. <BR/><BR/>I recall reading a column she wrote about then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson being subsidized by millions by the taxpayer to go to northern places to take samples of things Canadian that these people already had plenty of. I can't remember many of the details of the column, but there was something about how Clarkson was going to take samples of Canadian whisky to Finland, where they were already drunk on vodka. Francis had me in stitches. <BR/><BR/>But now Francis wants to be Adrienne Clarkson. <BR/><BR/>Doesn't Francis believe in the free market anymore? Surely, the internet market can fill any gaps she fears will be created with the demise of newspapers. <BR/><BR/>--------<BR/><BR/>I noticed that in the last budget, Prime Minister Harper did throw money at the dying newspaper industry. I read in the Arts funding segment -- he threw something like $428 million dollars at the Arts -- that some of that money is earmarked for "community newspapers". <BR/><BR/>Harper isn't Harper anymore. And Diane Francis isn't who I thought she was.reliable sourceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415656828004866498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-33543250181816855742009-02-01T17:24:00.000-08:002009-02-01T17:24:00.000-08:00maybe only a greater freedom than she can imagine ...maybe only a greater freedom than she can imagine can protect our freedoms... she needs to cut a deal with the bad blogger...truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com