{"id":4019,"date":"2020-05-03T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:23:02","slug":"on-this-world-press-freedom-day-a-refreshing-documentary-on-china-by-the-cbc-from-2012-along-with-hypocritical-blahblahblah-by-ms-chrystia-freeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/on-this-world-press-freedom-day-a-refreshing-documentary-on-china-by-the-cbc-from-2012-along-with-hypocritical-blahblahblah-by-ms-chrystia-freeland\/","title":{"rendered":"On this World Press Freedom Day, a refreshing documentary on China by the CBC\u2026 from 2012, along with hypocritical blahblahblah by Ms. Chrystia Freeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah-1024x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4020\" width=\"495\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah-1024x232.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah-768x174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah-1200x272.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandBlah.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 85vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBC documentary below was produced in 2012, surely not during the covid-19 pandemic of 2020 ?: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"CSIS: China Controls Canadian Politicians\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43fk6BCr7hM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about the freedom of press, here is what our Deputy PM, a former journalist herself (+ spouse of a journalist), rushed to tweet today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4021\" width=\"634\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandTweet.jpg 598w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FreelandTweet-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That is what she said today, that is on May 3rd, 2020\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is what she did in July 2019\u2026 Mmm, not that congruent with her message of today, ironically at a <em>press freedom conference<\/em> in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece of good news in the short news documentary below is the following: The mainstream media, including <em>CTV News<\/em> and<em> CBC<\/em>, stood up for <em>Rebel Media<\/em>&#8216;s right to have access to a press freedom conference with Ms. Freeland. That was a beautiful moment of Canadian solidarity. Bravo to our journalists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was funny in that story is that Ms. Freeland\u2019s staff (likely on her behalf?) accepted <em>Al Jazeera\u2026<\/em> but not <em>Rebel news<\/em> to her press conference. <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>, yes ?. You cannot be more &#8220;propagandist&#8221; than <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> in life. For instance, <em>Al Jazeera <\/em>usually reports on all the countries of the world&#8230; BUT their own, Qatar. Yes, this is how free press looks like in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, to conclude this post on a positive note, thank you Roula (Ms. Azar-Douglas) for your professional, independent, ethical, critical, and smart work as a journalist. Thank you for teaching critical thinking to your students. You reassure Bambi that professional journalism is alive, even during turmoils and pandemics. Thanks also for the inspiration\u2026 <em>Happy Word Press Freedom<\/em> to you! By the way, Happy Day to another inspiring journalist, Mr. Wark, and to all our local journalists too ?! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"CBC, CTV stand up for Rebel Media&#039;s right to access at press freedom conference\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etqdOhGGEEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC documentary below was produced in 2012, surely not during the covid-19 pandemic of 2020 ?: Talking about the freedom of press, here is what our Deputy PM, a former journalist herself (+ spouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}