Hey Charles, here's a story for your 'old germany' theme from another blog:
With friends like this....
The love-in between Al Hogan and Premier Lord is well known but sometimes Al and his journalists can get carried away.
In an effort to find someone, anyone, who would support the Premier on the recent letter controversy (you know the one where Chisholm Pothier released someone's private information to the media), he decided to quote "free speech analyst" Paul Fromm as endorsing Lord's view that the information is/should be public.
Now before you read on, please don't think that I believe that Al Hogan is ideologically aligned with all the sources used by his journalists but....
Paul Fromm is a noted white supremacist and neo-Nazi. Click on the link, check it out yourself.
In the late 1980s, Fromm was an active member of the Reform Party of Canada, but was essentially expelled in late 1988 when leader Preston Manning sent Fromm a letter asking him to "dissociate" himself from the party.
Note to Al Hogan: In their eagerness to find a source that validates your ideological view, your journalists should still actually check out the sources they use before quoting them. I am reasonably sure that Premier Lord would not want to be defended by a known white supremacist and neo-Nazi.
Just a thought.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
ROGERS TELEVISION < old Germany > ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES!!!!
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I've had a good hoot reading your blog the last couple days. What you have to understand is the inner workings of RTV (as us annoymous vols of another province that gets Rogers call it). The fact is don't get pissed off at the Station Manager, he's only doing his job if you want to aim your rage at somebody, the person you want to call out isn't him, it's a woman who runs Rogers Television in Ottawa named Collette Watson, who rose to power after Tom Green made the air and became the hit, and then she came up with the idea of making shows that appeal to more of what I like to refer to as a "wine & cheese crowd" (she even got her best friend a show and she even co-hosted it, it was called Margret's Sense of Occasion). If you want to get mad at somebody get mad at her. May I also suggest that you take a look at CRTC Public Notices 2002-61 and also read the CRTC Public Notices 1992-39, so you can better frame a complaint.
Hopefully this helps you out... And don't call it "Old Germany", I mean if you want to call it CCTV Rogers that might be a better refrence (that's the chinese host broadcaster)
Paul Fromm is a neo-Nazi and an idiot. No question about that but to call Rogers "old Germany" is over the board.
Times and Transcript tried to exonerate Lord too. Lord should resign. There have been too many such violations of confidentiality and buck stops at Premier's office. He is ultimately responsible. A civil servant must not be made a scapegoat as Pothier was. Lord should resign.
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