[Media-watch] Note from Toronto

Tony Sutton tonysutton at newsdesign.net
Mon Mar 24 01:02:47 GMT 2003



Canadian TV is as guilty as the BBC in its lax coverage of demonstrations against the war against Iraq. I was present at a huge demo on Saturday in Toronto after which, despite the presence of a large team of reporters and TV cameras, the airtime was negligible. 

Especially guilty was local station CityTV - based a few hundred yards from the US consulate where thousands of demonstrators gathered.  This station gave far less time to a local protest involving thousands of people who marched through the city's main shopping areas on Saturday afternoon, than it regularly devotes to its nightly inane fire engine chasing.

Toronto's liberal Sunday Star was as bad, barely finding space to mention the event, much less mentioning the speakers and the important things they had to say about the conduct of a war which the Canadian government has refused to sanction. The paper's coverage of this - and last week's demonstration - is in part explained by the fact rather than carry breaking news on Sunday, the paper's local metropolitan section has, in a recent redesign, become devoted to moronic (and pre-printed) lifestyle features.

Perhaps next week . . . 


Tony Sutton 

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