[908B64B197]

> Media coverage of these protests is vastly negative.

Keep in mind that in Canada a lot of the media is state owned and operated. So the media coverage might reflect more on what the ruling party wants the people to think of the protests.

On the livestreams they had music blasting and children playing in the snow near the trucks. Doesn’t look like an “insurrection”, as the state media described it, by any stretch (unless they fear snowballs!).

[SketchySeaBeast]

> Keep in mind that in Canada a lot of the media is state owned and operated. So the media coverage might reflect more on what the ruling party wants the people to think of the protests.

Sure, there's the CBC but the rest of our media is not state owned, so that's a weird claim to make.

[lowkey]

Except in this case the major private Canadian media all participated in taking something like $600 million Canadian dollars in subsidies from the government. Justin Trudeau even had the audacity to joke about having bribed the media. [0]

I think it is reasonable to consider the possibility that these handouts may have biased the media to the point where they may be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.

[0] https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/justin-trudeau-60...

[SketchySeaBeast]

I'm not arguing there's not some possible influence, I don't know if you can say that with any media in any country, I was just taking exception to the blatantly false "state owned and operated".

[ghettoCoder]

You’re partially correct. Don’t forget the goodie bag the media gets to “support journalism” which basically is a huge pot of money. Or Telford bragging she could get articles written published to smear to smear someone. It not too hard to make the connection between money and favours now is it?

[kukx]

Well they live in large part on state money according to VivaFrei.

[dragonwriter]

> On the livestreams they had music blasting and children playing in the snow near the trucks. Doesn’t look like an “insurrection”,

Except for the existence of snow, it sounds like things I’ve seen around fighters in the Palestinian intifada. I think you have an unrealistic view of what an insurrection looks like.