How should CPC HQ handle the media?

Brian Walsh

For sometime now I have been talking to other conservatives in my city and across Canada re: the MSM and how it treats conservatives. I was one of the people that started the idea that it was the liberal friendly media that won the election for the liberals last time. I came to the conclusion that our biggest obstacle to power was not the liberals or even a recalcitrant public but the media and its owners and controllers themselves.

The Media in Canada is spoiled... like any spoiled child it is used to getting what it wants when it wants it. For example, the media wants to tell political parties what policies they should adopt, what their purpose and objectives are and even determine if they should exist or not. The media pretends that it speaks for the public or some higher authority ( the media owners and the super-rich or powerful in this country?), but it isn't God that is for sure. The media is not supposed to dictate to the public what they should believe nor attempt to indoctrinate these people in the views of liberalism and secular socialism.

Thus, here are 10 points that I have put together to get Conservatives talking and thinking about the role of the MSM in Canada, its duties, obligations, rights, and wrongs as the case may be. Also, the suggested responses, actions or agendas that conservatives should provide when dealing with the media.

For all good thinking conservatives to consider:

1. We don't take orders from the media
2. We defer to the public only
3. We have a right to think the way we want to, this is a democracy that supports free speech and ideals
4. We can consider advice of the media when we WANT TO, otherwise we do not have to
5. We treat the media the way they treat us
6. We are the news, the media is the medium. Without us they don't have a story, it is quite simple. They do not have the right to manufacture news or controversy that simply does not exist.
7. We have the responsibility to run the country, the media has the responsibility to inform the country.
8. We have complete power over the media due to the power invested in us by the public, but we must wield such power responsibly
9. We have the right to abscond the media when it is in the country's greater interests, but only then and not necessarily for our own interests (when not too re: Paul Martin's Gomery speech).
10. We have an obligation to ensure balance and fairness in media output for the benefit of the public and the maintenance of the democratic system which we all pay for and expect rightfully to enjoy the benefits thereof.

In time I hope to make this a good essay and add more points as it warrants such effort.