It's obvious that many Canadians have a hopelessly skewed understanding of the crises in the Middle East and these crises are legion although you would never know it to read our newspapers. Unfortunately our news media are profoundly biased in what and how events and issues from that part of the world are covered. They left all semblance of objectivity in their journo-toilet a long, long time ago.
When I think of CanWest/Global, Bell/Globemedia. the Sun chain and, particularly outfits like the National Post, (today's) Globe & Mail, CTV and Global, I can't help wondering if journalism like that wasn't in Mark Twain's mind when he wrote:
Those who don't read newspapers
are uninformed,
Those who do read newspapers
are misinformed.
I'm kind of thinking that, given those two options, the misinformed are a lot more dangerous than the merely uninformed.
h/t S.L. Clemens
