Dear Coast,
It appears that your Steve Kinber and your other clowns writing the articles have your minds made up as to who we should elect.
Can you try fucking off about who you would like and try to post shit about ALL parties and try to be somewhat equal and unbiased?
WE ALL KNOW YOU DONT WANT HARPER…. but some of us might like that option. Not saying I do or dont, but fuck….. you people are brutal
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2008.
Hey, it’s a free country… start your own blah, blah, blah.But, er, nobody in Halifax gets to vote for Stephen Harper, even if you want to.
See my comment on Kimber’s latest rantings. It is a ridiculous situation that someone so obviously biased is allowed to head up a journalism school. Just one more reason why the Coast has absolutely zero credibility.
And yet you spend your time posting on its website.Just sayin’
Maybe you folks should look up the definition of “blog”, eh?
homie, you annoy me with this. seriously, you’re one of those fucktards with nothing better to do then rip into the media, without ever pondering who exactly you are hurting or accusing here.what else is journalism but ‘fact finding to support an opinion’? if not the reporters directly, then the editors,t he publisher, the owner or the advertiser. Face it, this golden age of unbiased media, which NEVER existed in the first place, isn’t here. best you’re going to find is BALANCED reporting but more and more the trend is toward specalized publications for specific audiences. so let’s look at the coast, shall we? first of all, it’s a weekly. what’s more, it’s a weekly with a predominantely feature-style. meaning what you see are longer, more magazine type pieces and lots of columns with the writers voice clearly demonstrated. it ISN’T a quick and dirty recitation of the facts like a daily or a news show. It also ISN’T directed at a general audience- it’s for a certain demographic, predominatly more liberal and a little hippy. THOSE are the readers, the advertisers who drive the paper advertise for those people,a dn therefore the content has to appeal to THEM. it might not always appeal to YOU. furthermore, the type of writer who willb ea ttracted to doing that kind of work will by and large by left leaning themselves; meaning there’s at least a couple of bias going on here. everyone on the planet has bias, it’s impossible not to; every experience you’ve ever had, ever, influences your particular bias. in larger news rooms at bigger dailys, it’s canceled out by more hands in the pot, but get someplace like the coast that’s staffed with feature writing hippies and what do you get? an end result that’s oging to clearly reveal where on the spectrum it sits.and frankly there is nothign wrong with that! I’d much rather a paper be HONEST about it’s slant, than try to hide it behind a bunch of unbiased bullshit. EVERY publication has a slant. when I pick up the coast, I’m looking for theres. you want some sort of unbiased utopia where every issue is covered exactly how you feel is best? start your own. I guarentee you if you tried, you’d realize how full of crap you are. ps Kimber is awesome 🙂
Hedgy, you make me giggle when you rant. The more passionate you get, the longer your paragraphs grow and more spacing errors you make as I picture you feverishly trying to type out your thoughts before they succumb to the frustration of having to explain the obvious to the oblivious.
Thanks miles 🙂 I’m trying to work on the spacing though…I think I’m pretty good when I’m not being internet-poked by idiots and their fuckery 🙂
so just curious Tim, since you want us to get our own paper…. are you conceeding that we shouldnt take the shit you say as gospel and just take it as your own giant opinion?make up your mind, either you want to be credible and appear unbiased, or you are a trash mag that just states its own opinions.Are you posting articles based on fact…. or do you just post facts to support your own opinions?
I don’t like Harper or the Conservatives right now. Bill C-61 would have potentially put my computer programming business out of business.I’m hoping for a repeat of what happened in the 1993 election but with the NDP taking the majority. Time for some new blood IMHO.
People should read more especially the OP. Try reading more right now, from papers across North America. Both Canada and the USA are having fall elections. It is not difficult to see which party a paper supports. It is a common practice for any paper to slant or be biased, showing which political party they support.
Ummm scott, the OP is addressing a specific group. Scott, if you bothered to read the front page of this site and see the articles by the people on this site, you would get the point of the OP. This paper is not even trying to hide it. They are FAR more obvious than actual newspapers.
Homie I think you’ve answered your own questions: “they don’t even try to hide it.”The Coast is an alternative free weekly. Alternative free weeklies are pretty much guaranteed to be liberal / green / gay-friendly / vegan / indie / environmental / Birkenstock havens of lefty thought, some thought provoking and responsible, and some naive and ill-considered (just like more conservative publications!)And I’m pretty sure the Coast wears the badge proudly. I’m not sure why you’d even question this (other than to try to discredit Tim, which I think you sometimes do a pretty good job of (Commonwealth accounting), and sometimes think you do less well but are wee bit obsessed (most other topics).
this one is not about the commonwealth games, but i would like to actually hear tim admit that he isnt a jouranlist rather than a fact finder to support his opinion. If you listen to people in this city talk, the garbage they read in this “paper” is actually quoted as gospel. The sad thing is, the coast gets more people reading than them other papers in this city…… at least by the 19-30 crowd. The Coast is like gospel in this city. It actually has more influence than papers like this in most cities.
Actually Homie the issue of that age group getting their news from “fake news” sources is a widespread one all over the continent. Younger people are getting their news from entertainment sources because the liberalism appeals to them, whereas the continued conservatism of traditio0nal news sources has become a turn-off for younger people.The problem, then isn’t really the alternative press. It’s the traditional press who need to work harder to be less biased themselves, and bring younger readers back into the fold.Don’t get me wrong. I heard your arguments regarding the Commonwealth Games stuff. I thought you raised good points and I was disappointed that your question were dodged rather than addressed. I don’t have a problem with Tim but had to admit that he really just didn’t have any answers on that one.But that’s long gone and continuing to chase after Tim on every other issue (or more accurately, every other non-issue) is beginning to cast a seedy shadow even on your good arguments on that issue. IMHO you had the upper hand, but you’ll lose it if you lose credibility…
that is why i stuck to just the election on this one. The articles in that Fed thing on the main page are astounding. I cant believe they just dont have a pic of NDP dick shoved in thier mouths…. they are all over it. Its true about normal press needing to step up, but in this case, i am addressing this paper. It would just be nice if the published and article called…. “Fuck Harper, we dont want you do vote for harper”, instead of all this dicking around and trying to look legit.
Go on, I dare you, spoil your ballot! Ain’t nothing worth voting for these days. T’is all about the rich scratching each other’s arses.
Whether or not you like the candidates endorsed by this publication, there are writeups about other candidates in many different forums, both good and bad. Only you can find the candidate that’s right for you and prevent forest fires.
As much as it kills me to say this, Harper was right about our culture of defeat. Read the whole quote. Maybe we all knew it. Why can’t people embrace change around here? This place is stagnating. There aren’t any high paying, interesting jobs. No one wants buildings that aren’t low-rise and made from red brick. And people are still complaining about the death of industries that have long outlived their usefulness. For Christ sake, let’s get with it!I still wouldn’t vote for Harper.
Hedgy – I usually love your rants (even the long ones) but I take issue with your “target audience’ idea. Even if it that is the case, liberals & hippies still need a broad array of ideas and info too. (especially from a magazine they’re more likely to read).The Coast also has several other target markets including students and people interested in local news, events and information. (heck,most other news covers the “East Coast”). I wouldn’t assume these target audiences are liberal. I’m the first person to defend a private paper making its own editorial decisions, but don’t then wonder why some of your loyal readers don’t appreciate the political love-in.
I think the whole target audience thing is more about the advertisers; in order to get advertisers and make money (which is what news is now, a product), you have to attract them. and advertisers want to be sure people who read the publication will also want to buy their product- so everything sort of goes together in a consumerist symbiosis, where the content has to appeal to the demographic and type of people the advertiser has decided they want to sell to. as far as the political endorsements go, clearly it’s just the easiest way to see that the people REALLY running this country aren’t those we vote in- it’s the people bankrolling them.
“as far as the political endorsements go, clearly it’s just the easiest way to see that the people REALLY running this country aren’t those we vote in- it’s the people bankrolling them.”clearly? Ummm perhaps you should look at the rest of the country…. they voted in harper and most of them are okay with it. Its just the folks out here that are really doing most of the crying. It has nothing to do with money, its mentality of an area as a whole, and it appears that maritimers never seem to get it right…. hell, you actually are considering Darryl Dexter and the NDP (looking at polls) and the NDP has left a large deficit in EACH of the provinces it last ran, why you dont look at the track record of them and learn is beyond me.