I think that your interpretation of events is very likely true.

It seems to me that it started in July 2008 when I filed with Canadian Human Rights Commission, human rights complaint against; Mallick, CBC editors and Dr. Henry Morgentaler accusing them of spreading hate on the Internet.

See this link:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=102151&sid=a300f5a521d569f90fc0c4a08d94f9ed

It seems to me that Mallick is going to become a scape goat in Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s Order of Canada fiasco.

It is not that she did not deserve what is heading her way as for number of years she was pushing Morgentaler fiasco but it seems that she made it way too easy for CBC people to get rid of her when she produced Palin piece.

It might as well be that the real reason why CBC editors let her publish her venom on Palin was just because they figured that it is less expensive to fire her over Palin article than pay lawyers to defend her and CBC in front of Canadian Human Rights Commission.

That’s why myself and many others call them Faux News. A more accurate name would be Rupert Murdoch’s Propaganda Network.

“No other news agency or even the McCain/Palin campaign spoke against this journalist.”

Karl Rove knows about the Streisand Effect.

I am very unhappy that CBC backed down. I normally count on them to provide unbiased reporting. As a US citizen, I can assure you that there is no unbiased reporting in the US anymore. I rely on Canadian, British, Australian, and Kiwi reporting combined with US reporting to get clues to where the truth lies. (it’s getting closer and closer to lying dead in a ditch.)

Faux News censored an AP story on Sunday that was actually a well done bit of journalism (must have been an accident).

The story’s headline was “Conservatives Begin Questioning Palin’s Heft”.

Here is the lead:

A growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about Sarah Palin’s uneven – and sometimes downright awkward – performances in her limited media appearances.

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, a former Palin supporter, says the vice presidential nominee should step aside. Kathryn Jean Lopez, writing for the conservative National Review, says “that’s not a crazy suggestion” and that “something’s gotta change.”

Tony Fabrizio, a GOP strategist, says Palin’s recent CBS appearance isn’t disqualifying but is certainly alarming. “You can’t continue to have interviews like that and not take on water.”

This story was on the Faux News website just long enough for the Google News and Yahoo News robots to find it, but If you didn’t read it immediately when it appeared you didn’t get to read it on Faux since it was disappeared rather quickly. The thinking is that AP stories appear automagically at Faux. Once they discovered that something in conflict with Rupert’s world view had appeared, they made it disappear. The US Media is now a lot like Scientology. Enturbulating facts just don’t exist since we hide them all.

I am fond of thought experiments, so let’s try this one:

“Democrats Begin Questioning Biden’s Heft”.

Here is the lead:

A growing number of Democrats are expressing concern about Joseph Biden’s uneven – and sometimes downright awkward – performances in his limited media appearances.

A liberal columnist who is a former Biden supporter, says the vice presidential nominee should step aside. John Doe, writing for the liberal DailyKos, says “that’s not a crazy suggestion” and that “something’s gotta change.”

A Democratic strategist, says Biden’s recent CBS appearance isn’t disqualifying but is certainly alarming. “You can’t continue to have interviews like that and not take on water.”

Do you think this story would disappear from Faux? I think it would be on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. I also think that Bill O’Reilly would be shouting about it nonstop for at least a week. I don’t know if the Palin story ran in any US newspaper since I haven’t checked. If it did, it wasn’t front page or else I would have heard about it from other sources.

Think of this thought experiment next time you hear a reich wing nutjob bitching and moaning about the ‘liberal media’.

More information on the ‘Strange case of the disappearing news stories’ can be found at Brad Blog
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6438

The truth is out there. Sometimes it’s hard to find.

SRG

Cheers!