Does Anyone Follow The Black Rod ?

* The fund-raising Friends of the CMHR haven't raised a penny in the first seven months of 2011.

grumpy old man wrote:Who believes anything the black rod writes?

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Gail Asper's latest revelations about the out-of-control spending on the CMHR

The Winnipeg Free Press is working so hard at being trendy that its
forgotten something important---to report the news.

This week they were hyping an appearance at the trendy Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe by trendy millionaire moocher Gail Asper.

News Cafe website:
"Join the Free Press for a (late) Power Lunch with Gail Asper, No. 2 on the Winnipeg Free Press Power 30 list, at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café... Hear the inside scoop from the woman behind the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, one of the most-anticipated projects in Winnipeg's history."

18 people showed up.

Once Gail Asper got her mouth running, she unleashed a series of bombshells,none of which has been reported in the pages of the FP. So we'll do their job instead.

Gail Asper revealed:

* The fund-raising Friends of the CMHR haven't raised a penny in the first seven months of 2011.

* The cost of construction has risen $3.6 million.

* The cost of the museum might go even higher, and Gail Asper doesn't care if it does.

She expects the CMHR will eventually attract as many as 850,000 people a year to Winnipeg.

- The $25 million hole in the construction budget that was there in
December is still there today, and that's after factoring in another $3.6 million from the City of Winnipeg.

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- For the first time ever the source of the estimate of tourists
expected to visit the CMHR was revealed.

Museum CEO Stu Murray has been claiming its from a study prepared by Manitoba Statistics, but Gail Asper said the number 250,000 came from a museum planning and design company in Toronto.

It took no time to dig up the name of the company, Lord Cultural Resources.

Asper said they told her that the CMHR building in New York would attract two million people a year, but in an isolated city like Winnipeg, 250,000 people was possible.

She said that she not only expects the museum to reach the 250,000 tourists a year mark, but to exceed it by leaps and bounds. Her model for the CMHR project, the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, now attracts 850,000 people a year ten years after opening, she said.

- Asper inadvertently exposed more than expected about the cozy relationship she has with the Winnipeg Free Press, a close financial and personal relationship that exceeds any ethical boundary between a newspaper and a newsmaker.

It's proof that anything written in the FP about the CMHR is nothing more than propaganda.

In thanking donors to the museum, Asper added"including the Winnipeg Free Press. The Free Press has been a phenomenal
financial supporter. You've given us a lot of coverage. You've also given us major ad space so we can celebrate our victories on the campaign from the Free Press. Thank you very much for all of that. I really appreciate it."

Even Kirbyson, a reporter at the FP, appeared embarassed by the gushing disclosure into how hand-in-glove the newspaper's relationship with Gail Asper is.

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rosencrentz wrote:What gets me is the obvious commun ist outlook of this blogger-

Complaining about "the millionaire moocher" and then all he/she does is pick any rich Jewish name, and then goes on. This time Asper name is used.

Anyone who knows the Aspers knows how much work the Aspers have done and if one doesn't know and wants to learn, all one does is google Asper charity, and up comes a list a 1/2 mile long.

Criticism is fine, but outright lying has to be reserved for the bloggs or even better this forum where we know brumpy allows 87% bulcrap to go unchallenged.

Just make sure you don't criticise Salsbury House!

Outsider wrote:http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2011/08/cmhr-pulls-oliver-twist-please-sirs-we.html

Has anyone seen any of this stuff in any main-stream-media stories?

Outsider wrote:I wonder if its true?

oh, and if the museum doesn't pay its tax bill in 2012 for the third year running it goes up for a tax sale.

In Winnipeg that means the City takes ownership of the property unless the taxes and penalties are paid in full within a year.

Does Salisbury House need another restaurant?

Outsider wrote:http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2011/08/cmhr-pulls-oliver-twist-please-sirs-we.html

Has anyone seen any of this stuff in any main-stream-media stories?
I wonder if its true.

darkwind wrote:

Outsider wrote:http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2011/08/cmhr-pulls-oliver-twist-please-sirs-we.html

Has anyone seen any of this stuff in any main-stream-media stories?
I wonder if its true.

That's the thing. Just because some blogger in the internet says it, doesn't mean it's true. Black Rod has know-it-all attitude and come across as "knowing", but that's not the same as true credibility.

Does anyone on here have knowledge of details on the CMHR to verify *or* dispute the black rod? So how can you claim he tells the truth.

Not trusting or respecting the other "mainstream" outlets in town shouldn't lead people to follow bad journalism just because it's one alternative.

Deank wrote:I wonder how the story of the failure of the fort is coming along?