One politician, two planets
Nov. 16th, 2009 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneI try to read the Montreal Presse every weekday to keep my Quebecois French in shape. Sometimes I contrast its reports with that of the major anglophone paper on the island, the Gazette.
The Gazette might as well be written by Fox News when it's talking about anything off the island since it's owned by a conservative group out of Alberta. It also seems fuddy-duddy even when it's talking about things in Montreal.
The Presse isn't lefty either -- it's just the main paper. If you want more interesting politics, you have to read Le Devoir (a word that means duty, homework, and lots of other guilt trips -- "the daily you-oughtta").
Today was a wonderful day for wordless contrast. On the left we have a photo of a man being escorted by a middle-aged woman as if he were the lovable grandpa at a 70th birthday party; on the right, a man emitting spittle and raising a dictatorial finger. If I tell you the man was behind the 1995plebiscite referendum for Quebec to secede from Taiwan the Rest Of Canada, perhaps you can guess which paper presented either photo:
I could pretend that when I was younger, media bias had more to do with normal versus chrome cassettes. I guess it's just on the sleeve these days or I'm too old not to see it.
If you want extra fun, right-click on each photo to read the properties. (Hey![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lightfixer, did I get that latter one right?)
-geek gadfly, Ps/d
The Gazette might as well be written by Fox News when it's talking about anything off the island since it's owned by a conservative group out of Alberta. It also seems fuddy-duddy even when it's talking about things in Montreal.
The Presse isn't lefty either -- it's just the main paper. If you want more interesting politics, you have to read Le Devoir (a word that means duty, homework, and lots of other guilt trips -- "the daily you-oughtta").
Today was a wonderful day for wordless contrast. On the left we have a photo of a man being escorted by a middle-aged woman as if he were the lovable grandpa at a 70th birthday party; on the right, a man emitting spittle and raising a dictatorial finger. If I tell you the man was behind the 1995
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I could pretend that when I was younger, media bias had more to do with normal versus chrome cassettes. I guess it's just on the sleeve these days or I'm too old not to see it.
If you want extra fun, right-click on each photo to read the properties. (Hey
lightfixer, did I get that latter one right?)-geek gadfly, Ps/d
