Canwest Media

djh wrote:if history can be a guide, the internet will be a targeted commodity for ownership. i don..t believe this can be done anytime soon but the web is only young. traditional news media, newspapers, TV networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, , etc... took decades after their founding to come under Zionist control.

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

djh wrote:you made the point perfectly. a million red flags can go up in someones mind. that doesnt mean a person cannot say what is on his or hers mind. i dont think the winnipeg sandbox is a division of canwest global or its subsidiaries.

LennyJessop wrote:

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

I don't get this.

djh wrote:i dont understand your question and or point. my point was people are free to see things their own way and speak their minds. unlike the writers, contributors and editors at asper controlled canwest media.

LennyJessop wrote:

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

I don't get this.

see Trin's posts...

grumpy old man wrote:

djh wrote:i dont understand your question and or point. my point was people are free to see things their own way and speak their minds. unlike the writers, contributors and editors at asper controlled canwest media.

How do we know this is happening at Canwest Media?

Triniman wrote:Peter C. Newman is one of Canada's best known journalists. He received a grant from the Asper Foundation to write the 2008 book Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada's Media Mogul.

Newman knew Izzy Asper and had this to say about him not too long ago:


"The story "Lament for Izzy: The fall of an empire" appeared in the
Oct 27 - Nov 9, 2009, issue Canadian Business. Veteran Canadian
business writer Peter Newman described how Izzy Asper ran the Southam
newspaper chain in 2000. Newman: "[I]t included publishers, editors and
columnists not willing to toe his party line. That he could not
tolerate. He recognized no reason for owning publications unless they
reflected his personal points of view. 'Every Southam editor, reporter,
columnist, etc. is now on notice and will be fired for provable causes
if there is a deviation.'" The "deviation" in question lay in not
subscribing to Asper's hard pro-Israel editorial line. Pluralism,
diversity, freedom to dissent, didn't apply when it came to Israel."

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

I don't get this.

see Trin's posts...

What? No way. Why should I start looking at someone else's posts (plural) to try to figure out what YOU mean in one of YOUR posts?

Speak your mind.

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:

Pavolo wrote:So Izzy was pro Israel so what

There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

I don't get this.

Miz point wrote:

Neither do I as LJ is making oblique inferences, again, and not providing examples.

djh wrote:what doesnt surprise me is the extent of shenanigans and improper dealings of the aspers and canwest. this is only natural to them. what surprises me is the speed and passion at which people rise to defend them. why?. must be something subconscious

djh wrote:what doesnt surprise me is the extent of shenanigans and improper dealings of the aspers and canwest. this is only natural to them. what surprises me is the speed and passion at which people rise to defend them. why?. must be something subconscious

grumpy old man wrote:What bothers me is completely unsubstantiated claims about ANYBODY.

LennyJessop wrote:

grumpy old man wrote:

djh wrote:i dont understand your question and or point. my point was people are free to see things their own way and speak their minds. unlike the writers, contributors and editors at asper controlled canwest media.

How do we know this is happening at Canwest Media?

Triniman wrote:Peter C. Newman is one of Canada's best known journalists. He received a grant from the Asper Foundation to write the 2008 book Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada's Media Mogul.

Newman knew Izzy Asper and had this to say about him not too long ago:


"The story "Lament for Izzy: The fall of an empire" appeared in the
Oct 27 - Nov 9, 2009, issue Canadian Business. Veteran Canadian
business writer Peter Newman described how Izzy Asper ran the Southam
newspaper chain in 2000. Newman: "[I]t included publishers, editors and
columnists not willing to toe his party line. That he could not
tolerate. He recognized no reason for owning publications unless they
reflected his personal points of view. 'Every Southam editor, reporter,
columnist, etc. is now on notice and will be fired for provable causes
if there is a deviation.'" The "deviation" in question lay in not
subscribing to Asper's hard pro-Israel editorial line. Pluralism,
diversity, freedom to dissent, didn't apply when it came to Israel."

Sorry, Trin. Needed to clarify my point.

Goth_chic wrote:

grumpy old man wrote:What bothers me is completely unsubstantiated claims about ANYBODY.

Exactly.

LennyJessop wrote:There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

LennyJessop wrote:

djh wrote:what doesnt surprise me is the extent of shenanigans and improper dealings of the aspers and canwest. this is only natural to them. what surprises me is the speed and passion at which people rise to defend them. why?. must be something subconscious

Because they have "done so much for Winnipeg!"

grumpy old man wrote:What bothers me is completely unsubstantiated claims about ANYBODY.

Miz point wrote:

Goth_chic wrote:

grumpy old man wrote:What bothers me is completely unsubstantiated claims about ANYBODY.

Exactly.

Irony....

grumpy old man wrote:

LennyJessop wrote:There is nothing wrong with being pro-Israel. It's when you let your personal convictions interfere with your business ethics and practices.

I absolutely have no clue what this statement means.

Are you saying that people should not bring their personal convictions to bear in their business practices?