paterson1 wrote:

AP is in the dog house instead of the White House since they don't use Gulf of America exclusively in their articles.  Not only are they banned from the Presidents House but now Air Force One.  This only applies to writers and reporters and not photographers.
More details from CNN..https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/media/white-house-ap-ban-air-force-one-oval-office-gulf-of-mexico/index.html

Ah, yes, the old banning media that doesn't fall in line with der Fürher's ravings trick.

We must have time-machined back to 1934 Germany.

AP should now do nothing but write negative articles on the orange idiot. Just destroy right-wing politics in America finally, because a big part of the reason why those numbskulls keeping voting in Republicans is because the news media either covers up their greedy corruption or skews it to something less offensive.

Any news org banned from the White House should have no reason any more to hold back.

 

TomTV wrote:

AP should now do nothing but write negative articles on the orange idiot. Just destroy right-wing politics in America finally, because a big part of the reason why those numbskulls keeping voting in Republicans is because the news media either covers up their greedy corruption or skews it to something less offensive.

Any news org banned from the White House should have no reason any more to hold back.

 

You mean the talk media?
That's what the news media's like down there.
PBS is the only real news media, the rest is just far-left or far-right with newsmax and one america news network.
Like on the radio, news channels should call themselvs news/talk channels.
Fox news's radio network does that, so call fox news fox news/talk tv because they do still have some reporting.
On the left, msnbc and cnn focus more on entertainment, so they should be called news/talk/entertainment channels.

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newsguy1 wrote:

It's been said the first thing targeted in a dictatorship in journalism.
Yep.

It's scarry what's happening to broadcasting down in the states.

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:

Just how fast did Associated Press jump onto the bandwagon to rename the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mount McKinley?

Agreed.
Some of those things should not have been renamed.
I feil bad for americans.
There options are ither far-left or right to far-right.
Atleast we have CTV news.

Yet another attack on the American media. But let's get one thing straight - Americans are idiots. ALL OF THEM! The most disgusting, deplorable, despicable, full-of-themselves assholes in the history of civilization. Americans are the absolute LOWEST form of life on this planet, a blithering malignant cancer of society. Each and every American is, in the words of Jim Rome, a straight up, bona fide JACKASS. You Americans voted in who you wanted voted in, and what happened to the AP, and what may happen to your public broadcasters, is all because of who YOU voted in. YOU clueless morons elected a known malignant narcissist, rapist and CONVICTED FELON, only because you want to "own the libs", and now you're seeing the results of your choices at the ballot box. You made your bed, you lay in it. Don't come and bitch to us that you don't like what your "president" is saying and doing - the results of the election are YOUR FAULT AND ONLY YOUR FAULT - NOBODY ELSE'S.

If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here. As far as I'm concerned, RA should change the name of this board to "The Southern Ontario Radio-TV Forum" - AMERICANS NEED TO GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE FOR ALL FRIGGIN' ETERNITY!

Many people on my father's side of the family are American.  They live mainly in California and New York.
They are for the most part wonderful people who vote Democrat and are highly educated, doctors, lawyers, skilled people etc.
One cousin, a woman who is a travel writer, has lived in Toronto for many years.
She is best friends with my sister and I.
Your extreme animosity toward Americans is kind of odd.



 

Forward Power wrote:

Yet another attack on the American media. But let's get one thing straight - Americans are idiots. ALL OF THEM! The most disgusting, deplorable, despicable, full-of-themselves assholes in the history of civilization. Americans are the absolute LOWEST form of life on this planet, a blithering malignant cancer of society. Each and every American is, in the words of Jim Rome, a straight up, bona fide JACKASS. You Americans voted in who you wanted voted in, and what happened to the AP, and what may happen to your public broadcasters, is all because of who YOU voted in. YOU clueless morons elected a known malignant narcissist, rapist and CONVICTED FELON, only because you want to "own the libs", and now you're seeing the results of your choices at the ballot box. You made your bed, you lay in it. Don't come and bitch to us that you don't like what your "president" is saying and doing - the results of the election are YOUR FAULT AND ONLY YOUR FAULT - NOBODY ELSE'S.

If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here. As far as I'm concerned, RA should change the name of this board to "The Southern Ontario Radio-TV Forum" - AMERICANS NEED TO GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE FOR ALL FRIGGIN' ETERNITY!

a way too sweeping, over-the-top generalization .. Kamala Harris got 75 Million votes.

re: "If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here."
I'm as disgusted by who's in the White House as anyone but you don't speak for SOWNY .. plus it's a pretty rich statement from a guy who's always saying he'll leave whenever politics surface.

The FCC is already starting to pursue media companies for reporting unfavourably on the current regime's policies. I suppose we can be thankful for such restraint. At least they're not executing them yet.

Oh no I have a feeling RadioActive might lock this thread because some of the political stuff on here.

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g121 wrote:

If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here. As far as I'm concerned, RA should change the name of this board to "The Southern Ontario Radio-TV Forum" - AMERICANS NEED TO GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE FOR ALL FRIGGIN' ETERNITY!

a way too sweeping, over-the-top generalization .. Kamala Harris got 75 Million votes.

re: "If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here."

I'm as disgusted by who's in the White House as anyone but you don't speak for SOWNY .. plus it's a pretty rich statement from a guy who's always saying he'll leave whenever politics surface.

Exactly!  This!!!

FP (and everyone else): I hate what Trump stands for. He's dangerous. He's a demagogue. He's quite arguably Fascist. I sympathize with how you feel. I feel pretty much the same level of anger with America. But I know that's just a gut reaction to arguably the most extreme yet frighteningly mainstream politics we've seen in modern-day North America. So, when I calm down I realize I don't really feel that way at all about anybody except those who actively support what's going down. I have lots of friends in the U.S. who are appalled, frightened, and feel totally f'd up and politically deflated. Your comments are ridiculously over the top. It's as if you suddenly exploded, out of nowhere. But, hey, these are pretty special times. And we have pockets of this insanity right here in Canada, too. It's actually kind of a global thing. But we're overall pretty intelligent people here at SOWNY. If we do stray into politics, and I think these days it's inevitable and unavoidable, let's keep our cool and do an intelligent job of it. If we want to talk politics in this truly weird and unsettling moment, there's a lot of grey space - like the tendency of all political extremes to change names, or the nature of elites, or whatever - that could be fruitful to discuss.

 

On the topic of the banning of the Associated Press from the White House and Air Force One, along with the chill of lawsuits against major American networks...

https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/nazi-germanys-schriftleitergesetz-the-end-of-freedom-of-the-press/

This is where America is going. Not the America we knew and loved. This is the 'new' America. God help us all.

Forward Power wrote:

Yet another attack on the American media. But let's get one thing straight - Americans are idiots. ALL OF THEM! The most disgusting, deplorable, despicable, full-of-themselves assholes in the history of civilization. Americans are the absolute LOWEST form of life on this planet, a blithering malignant cancer of society. Each and every American is, in the words of Jim Rome, a straight up, bona fide JACKASS. You Americans voted in who you wanted voted in, and what happened to the AP, and what may happen to your public broadcasters, is all because of who YOU voted in. YOU clueless morons elected a known malignant narcissist, rapist and CONVICTED FELON, only because you want to "own the libs", and now you're seeing the results of your choices at the ballot box. You made your bed, you lay in it. Don't come and bitch to us that you don't like what your "president" is saying and doing - the results of the election are YOUR FAULT AND ONLY YOUR FAULT - NOBODY ELSE'S.

If you are an American and visiting this board, leave right now and don't ever come back. You are NOT welcome here. As far as I'm concerned, RA should change the name of this board to "The Southern Ontario Radio-TV Forum" - AMERICANS NEED TO GO TO HELL AND STAY THERE FOR ALL FRIGGIN' ETERNITY!

I get the anger but this seems way over the top. You were one of the posters who complained bitterly about politics sneaking onto the board just last month. And yet here is this rant. Doesn't quite match.

I might remind you that many millions of Americans did not cast their votes for the worst President in the country's history and they are just as alarmed about what's going on as many in Canada. My sister and her family in NYC are just one of so many. She's sick about what's happening, but can't do much about it. So I think what you wrote, while understandable in the heat of anger, is way over the top. 

And ironically, since you objected to some earlier comments here, I've also received many complaints about your recent post. So the lesson, I suppose, is you can't win. Or at least as an Admin., I can't.

I actually raised this issue in a previous thread and it devolved into a string of comments on the U.S., the Middle East and everything in between. I got so bad I had to close it down.

I, too, would like to see the temperature turned down here. And while I think this topic is an example of what I feared would happen down south (hence my original editorial) we have to keep this in perspective and not overreact in fury. (And trust me, I'm as livid about what's going on down there as anyone.) This is a radio board. It is not a political one. Let's try to stick to that philosophy and everyone will be a lot happier. 

After all, some of my best sisters are American! 

On the topic...

https://archive.ph/uMr3h