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Media Objectivity in Canada: a Timeline of Social Events
November 30, 2007
Without an informed civil society there can be no robust conversations in a renewed democracy.
"(A) democracy cannot function unless the people are permitted to know what their government is up to (Commager, Henry Steele)."
Citations from Hackett and Zhao's useful publication (1998 ) entitled Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity 1
The regime of objectivity refers to an "ensemble of ideals, assumptions, practices and institutions" that is tied to concepts of democracy, public responsibility, public life and public good. There is an assumption that interest groups, social movements, politicians and the media operate under a regime of objectivity (Hackett and Zhao 1998:1).
Mass media has become the leading institution of that realm of social life called the public sphere, "where the exchange of information and views on questions of common concern can take place so that public opinion can be formed (Hackett and Zhao 1998:1)."
Liberal-democratic capitalist mode of governance is the dominant mode of governance in Canada. Quebec has a stronger history of advocacy and participant journalism (Hackett and Zhao 1998:12).
"These recent shifts in media ownership and policy might be seen as the equivalent of a non-violent coup d'etat, a metaphor evoking the inherent link between media power and state power — between the colonization of the popular imagination and the allocation of social resources through public policy and market relations. Communications scholar Herbert Schiller suggests that what is at stake is "packaged consciousness": the intensified appropriation of the national symbolic environment by a "few corporate juggernauts in the consciousness business."" (Hackett and Zhao 1998:5)
"The late French social theorists Michel Foucault, during the 1970s, wrote of "discursive regimes" — of how power is imbricated with knowledge, not by directly imposing censorship or coercion from outside, but indirectly and internally, through the criteria and practices that "govern" the production of statements (Hackett and Zhao 1998:6)"
"Scott Lash's concept of "regimes of significance" is composed of a cultural economy and a specific mode of signification. A cultural economy is comprised "of relations and institutions by which cultural objects are produced and consumed." Mode of signification is a "typical way by which cultural objects become meaningful to those use them." "Lash and other theorists make distinctions between discursive and figural, modernist and postmodernist, and cognitive and aesthetic ways of seeing and knowing (Hackett and Zhao 1998:6)."
Foucault collapses all truth claims into power, self-interest and the internal validity rules of particular discourses (Hackett and Zhao 1998:7)
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms enshrined "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication," subject to "such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society." Legal scholar Harry Glasbeek "predicted that the Charter's freedom of expression clause could be used "to defend individuals generally and the media in particular from state controls, but not individuals or their defender, the state, from private interests," thus helping the private press "to retain its sovereignty as a purveyor of information and opinion.47" In effect free speech is interpreted as a property right of corporate entities, not as a human right of individual citizens (Hackett and Zhao 1998:80). "Subsequent court rulings seem to bear out this prediction. Because freedom of the press includes the freedom to be biased, the print media (by contrast with broadcasting) are not legally required to be objective or balanced. Nevertheless, these concepts are often viewed as professionalistic criteria to be respected and relied upon in court decisions protecting media owners' property rights. Canadian or U.S. citizens have sometimes sought court-ordered access for their opinions or rebuttals in the pages of newspapers or magazines. The courts have consistently refused such a right of reply or access, citing the integrity and responsibility of journalists in producing "balanced" and "objective" reports. "
Market liberalism describes the right-wing movement that upholds a faith in the market mechanism. "It advocates minimum government, deregulation, privatization of public services, and more economic freedoms for the private sector. It espouses an extreme version of individualism. It displays hostility towards unions, collective bargaining, and the progressive social movements that struggle for economic and social rights for various disadvantaged groups. Market liberalism is also called neoliberal, neoconservative, and the new right. Preston Manning, Ralph Klein, Mike Harris and Newt Gingrich are champions of market liberalism. It is basically a revolt of the rich — the upper middle class — in a crusade against the poor. It is presented as a commonsense revolution. The shift towards market liberalism began in 1980 (Hackett and Zhao 1998:151).
Canadian press has media blind spots. This includes "…tax breaks for the wealthy, Canada's cosy trade-and-aid relations with regimes, such as Indonesia, that violate human rights and Canada's substantial participation in the international arm's trade, contrary to its self-image as a peacekeeper (Hackett and Zhao 1998:182)."
"In 1995, according to Project Censored, the U.S. press underplayed or ignored these stories, among others: the massive deregulation of telecommunications; $167 billion in annual subsidies to business, whose elimination could enable the U.S. government to balance its budget without slashing social programs; lax enforcement of U.S. child labour laws, resulting in thousands of injuries and even death of children in the workplace; $100 billion or more lost annually in medical fraud; ABC's cancellation of a hard-hitting documentary on the tobacco industry at the same time as a tobacco company filed a $10 billion libel suit against Capital Cities/ABC; the U.S. chemical industry's fight to prevent the banning of methyl bromide, a toxic zone-killing pesticide; the death through error or negligence of up to 180,000 patients in US hospitals each year (Hackett and Zhao 1998:182)."
1700s Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine were pioneers of social thought of the Enlightenment. Reason can control nature. All men have natural rights. Rousseau described nature as God's creation. Rousseau described nature as rational, benign and inherently harmonious.
1700s Thomas Jefferson was one of the early promoters of democracy.
1835 A jury acquitted editor/politician Joseph Howe accused of criticizing the authorities. The law of seditious libel was effectively struck down (Hackett and Zhao 1998:15).
1800s The press was both partisan and sectarian. It did not present the news with honesty or accuracy (Hackett and Zhao 1998:15).
1815 – 1836 The English working class used newspapers as a vital way of contributing to an unfolding class consciousness (Hackett and Zhao 1998:27).
1800s Independent penny press papers were published heralding the age of independent, non-partisan and socially responsible journalism. (Hackett 1998:16)
British Stamp Duty is a government tax on newspaper sales.
1800s The labour press began to publish. (Hackett and Zhao 1998:16) The labour press described a social landscape in which the rights to justice, equality and property of artisans, mechanics, trades people were impeded (Hackett and Zhao 1998:21).
1800s Utilitarianism advocated the goal of the greatest good of the greatest number instead of democracy based on natural rights and reason. Utilitarianism was better accepted by the ruling order, the middle class. They were concerned that democracy would lead to mob rule (Hackett and Zhao 1998:19) Utilitarianism and democracy are held in a long-standing tension in the United States.
1820s – 1830s Craft unions developed in some Canadian cities (Hackett and Zhao 1998:21).
1830s United States entrepreneurs launched daily newspapers in the 1830s. The popular commercial daily papers took full bloom in the 1870s (Hackett and Zhao 1998:24).
1850 – 1867 "Both the Leader and the Globe in their views of democracy expressed the central position of mid-Victorian liberalism. Both declared for a wide, popular electorate but still wanted a qualified franchise to recognize property and intelligence, and to prevent the rule of ignorance and mere numbers…. There was in this mid-century Canadian press little of the spirit of American Jeffersonian or Jacksonian democracy with their faith in the natural worth of the common man."
1850s – 1900 The trade union movement developed in Canada.
late 1800s The popular commercial daily papers emerged as the first version of journalistic objectivity (Hackett and Zhao 1998:18).
late 1800s Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism foreshadowed the competitive, exploitative laissez-faire market economy. (Hackett and Zhao 1998:18).
1872 The Ontario Workman was founded. The labour newspaper expressed Enlightenment sentiments: "Co-operation is a principal that has shone upon the world through the progress of intelligence, and that it will gradually grow with the intelligence of the masses we have no doubt. It, or some like system, will gradually supersede the serf system of the past(Hackett and Zhao 1998:21)."
1880s The US founded Knights of Labor was spreading across Canada (Hackett and Zhao 1998:28).
1891 T. P. Thompson was Canada's most prominent labour journalist. He was forced to close his newspaper when his readers turned to the commercial dailies. "It is much to be regretted that the wage earners are so stupidly blind to their own interests that they cannot see the advantage of having a live outspoken journal to plead their cause (Hackett and Zhao 1998:28)."
1917 The Russian Revolution
1920 Walter Lippman and Charles Merza accused The New York Times of reporting the Russian Revolution by "seeing not what was, but what men wished to see (Hackett and Zhao 1998:40)."
1930s Great Depression
1935 Leni Riefenstahl's documentary Triumph of the Will celebrated the Nazi Regime. It is the classic propaganda film.
1935 The American Newspaper Guild's code of ethics upheld the value of objectivity: "The newspapermen's first duty is to give the public accurate and unbiased news reports (Hackett and Zhao 1998:40)."
1937 Quebec's "authoritarian premier, Maurice Duplessis introduced the Padlock Act to shut down what it considered to be "Bolshevik or communistic" publications. The Supreme Court overturned the Padlock Act in 1957 (Hackett and Zhao 1998:79)."
1950s Alberta's Conservative Premier Ralph Klein described the 1950s as a Golden Age when Canadians "looked to the newspapers for their information, and … to governments for answers." Klein and many others were convinced that in the 1950s "The news simply reported on "reality," and political journalism treated politicians and authority figures with enough respect that they could communicate with their publics without worrying about the distorting lenses of the media (Hackett and Zhao 1998:136)." This cognitive certitude was pervasive. It existed in academia as well.
1958 The C.D. Howe Institute's origins go back to Montreal in 1958 when a group of prominent business and labour leaders organized the Private Planning Association of Canada (PPAC) to research and promote educational activities on issues related to public economic policy. Under the leadership of Robert M. Fowler, and with a small but dedicated staff, the PPAC soon became the Canadian co-sponsoring organization for the Canadian-American Committee (CAC), which had been established in 1957 to study and discuss the economic factors affecting the bilateral relationship between Canada and the United States.
1960s Conservative think tanks, business, politicians and media scholars describe the 1960s news media as left-liberal and anti-authority. A new breed of journalists was branded as adversarial, "gotcha", disruptive and cynical (Hackett and Zhao 1998:136).
1960 A French language CBC journalist complained that the CBC reporting was "objective to the point of being virginal (Hackett and Zhao 1998:39)."
1960s Third world national liberation struggle.
1970 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act during the October Crisis. 450 activists, journalists and writers were arrested under suspicion of being sympathetic to the separatist movement (Hackett and Zhao 1998:79).
1970s "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police placed left-wing groups and periodicals under surveillance (Hackett and Zhao 1998:79)."
1970 "The Davey Commission sparks debate on media ownership vs. freedom of the press (CBC Radio 1970)."
1971 New York Times Co. v. United States Decided June 30, 1971.
"I can imagine no greater perversion of history. Madison and the other Framers of the First Amendment, able men [403 U.S. 713, 717] that they were, wrote in language they earnestly believed could never be misunderstood: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . . of the press . . . ." Both the history and language of the First Amendment support the view that the press must be left free to publish news, whatever the source, without censorship, injunctions, or prior restraints. In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam war, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do."
1971 Ben Bagdikian predicted that "more independent channels of communication to each information corporation and into each home will end the homogenizing of news that now occurs because it must be prepared for such a wide spectrum of consumers" (Bagdikian 1971, 20).
1973 A bloody military coup, with U.S. connivance, overthrew Chile's elected Marxist president Salvador Allende…. The new military regime unleashed a reign of terror that saw thousands of Chileans arrested, tortured, murdered, and/or exiled. Political parties were banned, the press was censored, and freedoms of speech and assembly were restricted. The junta pursued decidedly free-enterprise economic policies, but it took sixteen years for some semblance of liberal democracy to be restored (Hackett and Zhao 1998:166)."
1974 The Fraser Institute was established. The Fraser Institute is a pro-business think tank and lobby group.
1978 The Business Council on National Issues was established. The Business Council on National Issues is a pro-business think tank and lobby group.
1980 Canada's competition law watchdog sparked a federal inquiry into a corporate takeover of two newspapers companies (Hackett and Zhao 1998:5).
1980 – 1981 The Tom Kent Royal Commission on Newspapers reported that "The great majority [of Canadians] believe that newspapers and the mass media in general, have responsibilities to the public different from those of other businesses." The mass media is expected to function in public interest, not just economic self-interest. (Hackett 1998:1) "It is those newspapers with a large advertising market to protect and with a readership all social classes of society that have taken the initiative of setting up existing press councils…. The various press councils established in Canada until now are seeking to perpetuate the social consensus which has ensured the success of the so-called omnibus newspapers …. Whose formula is specifically designed towards advertising led consumer patterns and whose basic unit is the traditional family (Hackett and Zhao 1998:92)."
1982 Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms enshrined "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication," subject to "such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society." Legal scholar Harry Glasbeek "predicted that the Charter's freedom of expression clause could be used "to defend individuals generally and the media in particular from state controls, but not individuals or their defender, the state, from private interests," thus helping the private press "to retain its sovereignty as a purveyor of information and opinion." In effect free speech is interpreted as a property right of corporate entities, not as a human right of individual citizens. (Hackett and Zhao 1998:80).
1983 REAL Women organization was created.
1984 Brian Mulroney elected Prime Minister of Canada.
1984 Robert Hackett wrote an article in 1984 on the limitations of using objectivity and bias as evaluative standards for journalism. He worked with Newswatch Canada (then called Project Censored Canada) that covers blind spots in the media.
1988 Brian Mulroney elected Prime Minister of Canada.
1989 Yuezhi Zhao's 1989 MA thesis was on the discourse and politics of objectivity in North American journalism. Zhao grew up in a peasant family in rural China.
1992 Barry Mullin's column criticized his own paper, the Winnipeg Free Press, for its coverage of the Los Angeles riots. The continent's major news story was carried on the back pages while front page carried soft stories. Mullin had been an ombudsman for the Winnipeg Free Press. But the new Thomson appointed publisher disagreed with Mullin's level of independence (Hackett and Zhao 1998:93).
1994 The response of the Mexican government to the Chiapas rebellion may have been more moderate because of the Zapatistas' use of the Internet to communicate with their sympathizers world wide (Hackett and Zhao 1998:191)
1995 Sovereignty Referendum in Quebec
1995 "In 1995, according to Project Censored, the U.S. press underplayed or ignored these stories, among others: "In 1995, according to Project Censored, the U.S. press underplayed or ignored these stories, among others: the massive deregulation of telecommunications; $167 billion in annual subsidies to business, whose elimination could enable the U.S. government to balance its budget without slashing social programs; lax enforcement of U.S. child labour laws, resulting in thousands of injuries and even death of children in the workplace; $100 billion or more lost annually in medical fraud; ABC's cancellation of a hard-hitting documentary on the tobacco industry at the same time as a tobacco company filed a $10 billion libel suit against Capital Cities/ABC; the U.S. chemical industry's fight to prevent the banning of methyl bromide, a toxic zone-killing pesticide; the death through error or negligence of up to 180,000 patients in US hospitals each year (Hackett and Zhao 1998;182)."
1995 – 1996 There were unprecedented multibillion-dollar-mergers in North American media.
1996 The US Congress passed The Telecommunications Act that "raised the ceiling on the size of national TV networks and virtually removed restrictions on the ownership of different types of media in the same market (Hackett and Zhao 1998:4)."
1996 Hollinger took over Southam, Canada's largest newspaper chain.
1996-05 "The Winds of Change conference, which took place in Calgary in May 1996, brought together approximately 70 leading right-wing thinkers and activists in an effort to bring unity to conservative forces before the next federal election, expected in 1997. The goal, according to organizer David Frum, was to discuss the prospects for a merger between the Reform and Progressive Conservative parties. The stark reality facing Conservatives is that a continued fracturing of the right-wing vote is likely to ensure not only a victory for Jean Chretien's Liberals in 1997 but that the Liberals remain in power indefinitely. Frum believed that a vigorous airing of views behind closed doors, steps to develop a common agenda, and the bon amie of personal contact would create the momentum that was needed. . . . First, in the 1980s and 1990s the corporate community has funnelled considerable resources into so-called think tanks. The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute (1974), the C. D. Howe Institute in Toronto (1958), and the Canada West Foundation (1970) in Calgary are among the most influential policy-oriented research institutes. They often make headlines with timely and sometimes controversial reports on public policy issues, do contract work for governments, hold conferences and seminars, and do their own community outreach and media liaison work. Right-wingers might argue that the left in Canada has its own think tanks in the form of some university-based research centres. Of course, even the most objective scholarship might seem threatening to those who hold strong ideological views. These centres lack both the financing and the muscle that is available to the corporate-sponsored institutes. Indeed, as university budgets and federal funding for basic research have been cut back, corporate money has become more important in financing research. Corporations tend to support projects from which they can benefit directly (Taras 1996).
Late 1990s The Federal Government cut the CBC budget dramatically. CBC cut its workforce by a third.
2000 The Sarejevo Commitment At the beginning of the 21st Century men and women of the media register their commitment to integrity and public service. This document was launched at a World Media Assembly, SARAJEVO 2000, and signed by participants on 30 September 2000.
We, men and women of the media – professionals at all levels, from publishers and producers to cub reporters and students of journalism; from the print and digital media, television and radio, book publishing, cinema and theatre, advertising and public relations, music and the performing and creative arts – met here in the bruised, historic and beautiful city of Sarajevo, pay our homage and respect to the millions of humanity whom we inform, entertain and educate.
2001 In the wake of 9/11 there was a dramatic increase in the number of blogs.
2001 The producers of the series West Wing created a pivotal episode entitled Isaac and Ishmael where real, virtual and everyday embodied real were inextricably linked. The series exists in the liminal space occupied by docudrama, fictionalized journalism, news as fiction, psychodrama, realpolitical analysands, flesh and blood real and the imaginary real. The series reveals behind-the-scenes ethical sell-offs of the fictional (or nearly real) political epicentre of the planet. The Democratic President capable of blinking has a real world Ivy League CV . He is an economist trained in the London School of Economics.
2006 in An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim, Al Gore described how the mass media provides misinformation about consensus in the scientific community regarding climate change 2004 showed. He contrasts the findings of 928 Science magazine survey of all peer-reviewed scientific studies of climate change in which there were no articles questioning the fact that global warming caused by increased carbon dioxide in the earth's environment is occurring at a rate and speed greater than any climate event in the past. Concurrently 53 percent of articles, etc in the mass media articles concluded that there is conflicting and/or inadequate evidence regarding global warming. Until Gore's film was released consumers of the mass media who relied solely on them for information regarding climate change received deliberate misinformation preventing them from responding democratically to environmental risks.
2008 Guardian journalist Nick Davies published Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media in which he critically examined the changing face of journalism in the UK since the 1970s. This reporter with a distinguished record in investigative journalism claims that "the British newspaper industry, its regulators and the PR machine that supplies it" accept, report and spread "lies, distortions and propaganda" in a culture of "churnalism" not objective, investigative reporting (Riddell 2008). "Il documente les règles permettant à n'importe quel rédacteur d'usiner une « information » sans chair, sans risque et parfois sans vérité — mais respectueuse des principes du marketing : privilégier les enquêtes au rabais, éviter de froisser les institutions, se porter au devant des désirs supposés du lecteur, alimenter la panique morale… (Davies 2008-07)." He revealed how the public has come to accept misinformation (the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq) as it is so widely spread by a mass media culture in which fewer journalists are hired and those that remain are discouraged from taking the time to verify the credibility of sources.
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Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2002-. "Media Objectivity: a Timeline of Social Events1." >> Speechless.
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[1.] This is a personal teaching learning and research tool using my EndNote 8 and Zotero bibliographic databases compiled over a 14-year period, current events articles from various on-line and print sources. It is available for use under the Creative Commons license which is a license requiring any one who uses copyrighted work to attribute the work to its author, to not use the work commercially, to share any derivative work with the same license as this. For the sake of expediency I am uploading a timeline I developed in 2002. The vast majority of the entries come from a provocative, extremely concise, well-written publication by Hackett and Zhao (1998). For anyone teaching urban studies, critical ethnography, sociology, anthropology, economics, human rights, communications, public policy, history, political science not to mention journalism, this book is a must. It is entirely readable and its logic is impeccable. This has been uploaded in December 2006 to my WordPress blog and it will be updated in slow world time. Last updated July 2008.
I began this particular timeline while teaching First Nations and Inuit adult students in Off-Campus programs. One of the first questions asked of me during an information session on course content was put forward by the grandson of Jessie Oonark. The life and times of Jessie Oonark (1906-1983) Inuit artist, Order of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy member has been a part of my everyday life since the early 1990s I first began to investigate how understanding of her deceptively simple but content-rich work could be enhanced. By the time I met her daughter, a colleague teaching at Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, Nunavut, had dinner at the Frobisher Inn in Iqaluit, NU with her son, cultural activist, father, political worker, William Noah in Iqaluit and her nephew, I was already confused, ashamed and angered by the stories of social injustice that I had collected. Her progeniture asked me, "Will we be examining the way the mass media portrays Inuit?"
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Democracy Renewed: Reasonable Accommodation and Differences
November 22, 2007
For more recent article about Charles Taylor see Joshua Rothman's November 11, 2016 "How to restore your faith in democracy" in New Yorker Magazine.
Published in 2007…
It is surprising that so little attention outside of Quebec is being paid to one of the most robust contemporary exercises in democracy, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. This commission on the social accommodation of religious and cultural minorities in Quebec, is participatory, accessible online, completely bilingual (French/English), pluridenominational and intercultural. Building on Quebec's model of sociocultural integratation the Commission is examining issues related to managing diversity in a society committed to democratic participation and the protection of human rights. Issues discussed include relations with cultural communities, immigration, secularism with a focus on the management of religious diversity. Renowned Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, (1931-) and sociologist Gérard Bouchard will oversee the commission's one-year mandate. The process includes gathering information from public and on-line forums.
Taylor argued that the media have promoted an image of Quebecers as exclusive by focusing on the most explosive racist and zenophobic comments. The moderate majority in Quebec are participating in the forums and are very welcoming toward immigrants and their cultures, and don't adopt an attitude of exclusion (CBC 2007-11-16).
Some 88% of immigrants in Québec live in the Montréal area and account for 19% of the population (9.9% of the population of Québec). The population of Quebec is 7.6 million with 47% living in the Montréal area (GQ 2007:16).
1948 The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.
1960s Debate[s in Quebec "sought to redefine powers and the division of responsibility between the State and the Catholic Church (GQ 2007:6)"
1960s "Québec has ranked among the top 10 host countries of immigrants* among the OECD countries [since at least the 1960s] (GQ 2007:16). Source: United Nations, Trends in Total Migrant Stock, 1960-2000, 2003 Revision, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2004.
1970s Quebec adopted a "sociocultural integration* model or perspective. The sociocultural integration model compelled the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences "to reexamine interculturalism,* relations with the cultural communities, immigration, secularism* and the theme of Québec's identity as part of the Frenchspeaking countries and communities of the world. In a word, it is, in particular, the management of diversity, especially religious diversity, that appears above all to pose a problem (GQ 2007:10)."
1975 Quebec adopted its own Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. "Québec's political system is both democratic and liberal. It is democratic inasmuch as political power is vested, in the last analysis, in the hands of the people, which delegates such power to representatives who exercise it on their behalf for a given period of time. Our democracy is thus representative,* but is also liberal in that individual rights and freedoms are deemed to be fundamental and are confirmed and protected by the State (GQ 2007:12)."
1977 Quebec adopted the Charter of the French language (Bill 101), stipulating that "French [is] the language of Government and the Law as well as the normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce and business (GQ 2007:12)."
1981 "It is generally agreed that the main thrust of Québec's integration policy was initially defined in 1981 in "Québécois—Each and Every One" which rejected federal multiculturalism* policy in favour of a policy of "cultural convergence." "Québécois—Each and Every One" (action plan for the cultural communities), Québec, 1981, 78 pages. To our knowledge, this action plan dating from 1981 is the first government document to sanction the notion of a "cultural community (GQ 2007:14 footnote 23)."
1982 Canada incorporated a Canadian charter of rights and freedoms into the Constitution Act.
1985 "Although it is rarely formally spelled out in legislation, accommodation is deemed to be included in the right to equality that the charters recognize. It is a mechanism that the Supreme Court of Canada, which drew inspiration from a concept already recognized in the United States, sanctioned in 1985 in order to combat indirect discrimination,* which, following the application of an institutional norm* such as a statute, rule, regulation, contract, administrative decision or customary practice, infringes a citizen's right to equality or freedom of religion (GQ 2007:8)."
1985 "March 20, 1985 resolution of the Québec National Assembly on recognition of the rights of the aboriginal peoples (GQ 2007:11).
1989 May 30, 1989 resolution of the Québec National Assembly on the recognition of the Malecite Nation (GQ 2007:11).
1990 "The Énoncé de politique en matière d'immigration et d'intégration was adopted which proposed the notion of a "moral contract*" that establishes, in a spirit of reciprocity, specific commitments by the host society and newcomers. The integration framework proposed adopts the basic principles mentioned earlier, i.e. Québec is a liberal democracy* in which French is the common public language, and specifies the nature of the desired relationship between the host society and immigrants (GQ
2007:14) The Énoncé stipulates that Québec is: • a society in which French is the common language of public life; • a democratic society that expects and encourages all citizens to participate and contribute; • a pluralistic society, open to extensive cultural contributions within the limits imposed by respect for basic democratic values and the need for intercommunity dialogue. Source: Au Québec pour vivre ensemble. Énoncé de politique en matière d'immigration et d'intégration, ministère des Communautés culturelles et de l'Immigration, 1990, page 15. (GQ 2007:14 footnote 24).
2007-01 The municipal council in the Mauricie town of Hérouxville adopted a code of conduct for immigrants in January. Seven of the region's 10 towns moved quickly to support the list of rules. The Muslim Congress of Canada is considering a human rights complaint against the town.
2007-02-08 On February 8 "Québec Premier Jean Charest announced the establishment of the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences in response to public discontent concerning reasonable accommodation (GQ 2007:5) [T] he current debate is taking place in a unique context of pluridenominationality (GQ 2007:6)."
2007 "Almost all Western nations are facing the same challenge, that of reviewing the major codes governing life together to accommodate ethnocultural differences while respecting rights (GQ 2007:5)."
2007-11-16. CBC. 2007. "Quebec accommodation hearings are serving a 'great need,' co-chair says." http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/11/16/qc-boutay1116.html
2007-11-21 CBC. 2007. "Montreal immigrants fuel debate on accommodation." http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/11/20/qc-accommodation1120.html
Keywords used in Consultation on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences
[A]ccommodation related to cultural differences [. . .] "is based on the principle of negotiation, whether or not it is formal, between two parties, usually an individual and an organization, the first of which claims to be the victim of discrimination. Such negotiation seeks to strike a balance between each party's rights without imposing an undue burden on the party targeted by the complaint." [A]ccommodation practices or arrangements fall under two largely overlapping spheres, the citizen (cooperation) sphere and the legal sphere (GQ 2007:5)."
CBC. 2007. "Quebec accommodation hearings are serving a 'great need,' co-chair says." http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/11/16/qc-boutay1116.html
CBC. 2007. "Montreal immigrants fuel debate on accommodation." http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/11/20/qc-accommodation1120.html
GQ (Gouvernement du Québec). 2007. Accomodation and Differences: Seeking Common Ground: Quebecers Speak Out: Consultation Document: Dialogue Makes a Difference. http://www.accommodements.qc.ca/documentation/document-consultation-en.pdf
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Patrick Watson vs CTV: the case of Conrad Black
July 14, 2007
Patrick Watson (1980) vs CTV (2007): the case of Conrad Black: The Canadian Establishment and governance.
Throughout the trial of Conrad Black I wondered why Patrick Watson's articulate and well-researched CBC documentary entitled the Canadian Establishment (1980), was not viewed on CBC. Conrad Black was known for a strong and effective offensive tactics when dealing with his image management in the press and until the guilty verdict became publicized the media was discouraged from entirely objective coverage. This may change now that the jury has revealed to their decision. CTV coverage reveals a pro-Black bias describing him as stoic, proud, even …onian, in the face of this trial, almost agreeing with Conrad Black that he is somehow above the law. However, he did glare and skowl at the jury when they gave their decision. They describe how he helped every community he was a part of. They admire his rise from his university education to an emerging career with the press to the circle of the uber-wealthy. They expect him to stand up to this and continue to argue for his own innocence. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice where he removed evidence from his Toronto office and of email fraud which hold a combined possible sentence of 10 to 65 years. Charges of racketeering were dismissed. Nonetheless he stole millions of dollars from Hollinger, and continues to feel no remorse. There appears to be a strong empathetic response to the potential of his doing his real jailtime in an American jail where he is actually going to have to do work such as laundry. There is speculation and some relief that since he is so 'astute' in terms of money that he will have provided for himself and his family, Barbara Amiel, their son and daughter, Alanna in some 'legal' fashion. CTV journalists are comparing the American and Canadian legal systems in terms of fairness and approaches to access to jury information. They mused about whether American courts would be harsher on Black and his co-accused than their Canadian counterparts who would be more influenced by Black's position of power, wealth and prestige. They seem to admire Black for his intelligence and his ability to write and do research and imagine him using his minimum security prison to study and write. Although others argue that an American minimium security prison is not an exclusive club prison like those in Canada and Black will not have access to a computer. CTV interviewees describe Black as someone very concerned with his place in history. CTV journalists look for 'silver lining' in his situation. They wonder how Black will survive from now to his sentence hearing by Judge … in November. He is no longer a Canadian citizen since he abandoned it to become a British Lord. This means he has no rights to go to Canadian jails which are considered to be friendlier to the uber-wealthy. Black is expected to begin quickly to appeal the jury's findings. This will not be stalling the sentencing hearing.
What makes Watson's (1980) revelations so compelling at this time is the way in which he reveals Black's roots as outsider on Bay Street until he was able to take advantage of widows of Establishment members to get his toe in the door. While Black's father had some wealth through his brewery, his family lacked the prestige and power of the Canadian Establishment. According to Watson, it was during the era of Conrad Black that the Establishment shifted towards an even more self-serving attitude of entitlement. His business ethics predates that of the mean-spirited arrogance of the financeers in the 1990s. He seems to embody that which is dysfunctional and unsustainable in a social world corrupted by extremes of wealth and poverty.
My own concern with Black was the role he played as media mogul in obstructing access to an objective press, a keystone of democracy. Like the the New Brunswick-Bahamas Irvings prior to their ethical turn, mass media moguls adopt Friedman's motto that their sole responsibility is to make money. Black claimed that he hoped to provide more of a pro-business, economic efficiency viewpoint to counteract the perceived social justice bias of the media (Flynn-Burhoe).
Do we secretly admire white collar criminals and their brilliant lawyers? Conrad Black and three others are accused of stealing $60M from shareholders to fatten their 5- and 7-figure salaries. Prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer claimed in his opening statement that media mogul Black failed to provide the public with objective accounts of world affairs.
CTV News. 2007. Conrad Black. July 13, 2007.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2006. "Media and Objectivity: a Selected Timeline of Social Events." >> papergirls. December 6.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007.
"Is the Mass Media Coverage Biased in Favour of Conrad Black?">> papergirls. May 9, 2007.
Watson, Patrick. 1980. The Canadian Establishment. CBC.
"Patrick Watson." Museum TV Archives.
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In the mythopoetic language of the aria Nessun Dorma from the Italian opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini's (1858-1924) the nameless prince seeks to enrapture the cold-hearted judge. Lew (1997) described the opera's "underlying theme of the law: La legge è questa" which is "almost like a magic spell." The Unknown Prince enters the contest and wins. But he wants something more authentic in his relationship with the princess than simply solving her riddles. The aria Nessun Dorma refers to a sleepless night through which his judge, the vinegar-souled princess, seeks to deprive the prince of his prize. He sings of a secret hidden within him, of dissolving the silence and finally of conquest. See Lew (1997).
Knox described how the Idol judge vinegar-souled Simon Cowell could not help smiling as he listened to Paul Potts' rendition of Nessun Dorma. His smile broke his face in half.
Journalist Jack Knox (2007) described 36-year old Welsh mobile-phone salesman, Paul Potts as the "classic underdog" looking like he "had been beaten all [his] life. " Potts according to Knox was "poor, dumpy, shlumpy, overweight, slump-shouldered, with a gut-over-the-belt frame."
The story of Paul Potts sharply contrasts with that of Joshua Bell, one of the world's greatest violinists, who played his multimillion-dollar Stradivarius for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington in a social science experiment. Commuters hurried by and only a rare few stopped to listen and were enraptured including one mesmerized very young child who tugged at his mother's hand as she rushed to her next appointment (Weingarten 2007).
Location, location, location.
If Paul Potts had chosen to sing Nessun Dorma in that Metro stop in Washington in April 2007 would he have melted the hearts of vinegar-souled passersby? One thing is for sure, from now on, thanks to a combination of the popularity of Idol-style shows, Youtube and email if Potts were to sing for busy commuters he, unlike Joshua Bell would not go unnoticed.
to be continued . .
|The Prince
|Nessun dorma, nessun dorma …
Tu pure, o Principessa,
Nella tua fredda stanza,
Guardi le stelle
Che tremano d'amore
E di speranza.
|No one sleeps, no one sleeps…
Even you, o Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars,
That tremble with love
And with hope.
|Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
Il nome mio nessun saprà, no, no,
Sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà,
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
Che ti fa mia.
|But my secret is hidden within me;
My name no one shall know, no, no,
On your mouth I will speak it*
When the light shines,
And my kiss will dissolve the silence
That makes you mine.
|Il nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir.
|No one will know his name
And we must, alas, die.
|The Prince
|Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
|Vanish, o night!
Set**, stars!
At daybreak, I shall conquer!
From Lew (1997).
The copyright for the Italian libretto of Turandot has been held by G. Ricordi & Co. since 1926 (Lew 1997). aria Nessun Dorma
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Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Pearls before Breakfast: Story Dugg by papergirls." >> papergirls. Uploaded May 16, 2007.
Knox, Jack. 2007. "Internet's Idol's Story Gives Hope to Us All." Victoria, British Columbia: Times Colonist Sunday Edition. June 24, 2007. p. A3.
Lew, Mark D. 1997. "Turandot: Commentary on Symbolism, Poetry, and Nessun Dorma." Last Updated September 29, 1999. Accessed June 24, 2007.
Weingarten, Gene. 2007. "Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?" Washington Post. April 8. Page W10.
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Faith or skepticism: black snow and the evidence of things not seen
January 25, 2007
Larry looked up, waiting for C. J. to complete her sentence. She smiled with her tired — perhaps even jaded — eyes, ever so slightly, and completed the quote from St. Paul. She explained that she maintained her calm in the Press Room while being shot at because of her faith in "[t]he substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen." She wasn't referring to faith in God but to this team of highly trained West Wing staff from President Bartlett, Toby and Will, to the Secret Service. This mise en scene against a backdrop of an insider's poker game, is one of the many ways in which the popular TV drama portrayed the idealistic, behind-the-scenes, everyday life of the American presidency in the West Wing of the White House. Now that the entire series (2000-2005?) is available on DVD through video store outlets, public libraries, etc., the audience has probably expanded beyond the "loyal audience that desperately want[ed] to believe in the nobility of the American dream (Amazon)."Jack Beatty in his article (2004) published in The Atlantic online suggested that the West Wing under the presidency of George W. Bush should have St. Paul's definition of faith as its motto, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)." Beatty argued that while we might question "Bush's veracity, his grip on reality, and the rationality of his policies," we cannot question his faith.
By the end of the 20th century, the word faith had become politically charged. Faith and skepticism held in tension by everyday life events are part of the same lifelong dialogue. They are not on opposing teams. The terms faith and ideology have been used as if they meant the same thing in reference to various kinds of truth claims, religious (atheism, theism, deism, shamanism, etc.), politics (democracy, communism, socialism, monarchy), science (quantitative, that is statistical or qualitative methods that is qualia) or art forms (Greek helenistic, French Neo-Classical, German Romanticism, Inuit, Italian Baroque). I am not convinced that belief has the same negative correlation as ideology. The first may be blinded by passion, the second by politics. The first is associated with ignorance and niaivity, the second with jaded realism. The skepticism is a form of reflexivity in which a researcher remains open to the possibility that his/her own axiology, methodology, ontology may indeed be only partial. The need to be able to predict future events based on certain knowledge claims, that are always partial, is obvious. Belief in your own team (discipline, department, office) helps maintain an energy flow to get things done within a time/space continuum where there is a political need for expediency. However, knowledge claims for the future are more productive when faith is that which keeps a researcher engaged in her efforts to better understand regardless of political expediency.
The same quote from St. Paul over a century ago, was used by a Reverend MacDonald (1882). "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)." Reverend MacDonald cautioned those in his congregation who judged atheists and agnostics harshly. He instead acknowledged the anguish of those who had lost their faith when they saw only the of the late 19th century and deduced that there was no hope, no light. They lost faith because the evidence around them led to despair or even worse apathy. At the same time Reverend MacDonald expressed his gratitude for the more recent translation of the Bible which clarified for him the difference between the spirit and the letter of statements such as, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)."Perhaps then for the 21st century we need to look at psychology, cultural studies, political philosophy and why not religion as part of a similar conversation.
Bertrand Russell, British analytic philosopher, logician and mathematician (1872-1970) once argued that mankind "is a curious accident in a backwater (1961)." He contributed to the dethroning of man, or the marginalization of man in the materialist point of view (Russell 1961 cited by Barr 2003:68). But Russell changed his opinion as he advanced in years. He went from embracing atheism to embracing Faith in the possibility of the existence of God.
"I think, the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology….Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part…. It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment. The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship…. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.
—Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1951)
Rollins and O'Connor's publication (2003) entitled West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama (The Television Series) critically analyzed the series. See also (Things Unseen).
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Evidence of Things Not Seen: Media and Black and White Snow"
Selected Webliograhy and Bibliography
Misiano, Christopher. 2003. "Evidence of Things Not Seen." West Wing. April 23. No. 420.
Beatty, Jack. 2004. "The Faith-Based Presidency." Atlantic Unbound. March 25.
Hebrews 11:1
MacDonald, George. 1882. "Faith, the Proof of the Unseen." Sermon. Brixton Congregational Church. June.
- Rollins, Peter C., O'Connor, John E. Eds. 2003. The
- West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama (The Television Series). Syracuse University Press. ISBN-10: 081563031X, ISBN-13: 978-0815630319. 272 pp.
- "Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at this award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Eminent scholars Peter C. Rollins and John O'Connor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate visual language into on-screen politics. While the series may be criticized as "idealistic," its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that desperately wants to believe in the nobility of the American dream. This collection introduces readers to the sensibilities to appreciate the show's nuances and the necessary knowledge to avoid any misreadings. It will be of interest to students of politics, popular culture, fans and critics alike."Amazon book reviews.
- Russell, Bertrand. 1961. Religion and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's
January 9, 2007
The Canadian business community has taken the most active interest in politics at the CEO level than any other business community in in the world (d'Acquino cited in Brownlee 2005: 9 Newman 1998:159-160). And this interest and influence has been on the rise in the last decades. Canada's business community has had more influence on Canadian public policy in the years 1995-2005 then in any other period since 1900.
Look at what we stand for and look at what all the governments, all the major parties . . . have done, and what they want to do. They have adopted the agendas we've been fighting for the in the past few decades (cited in Brownlee 2005: 12 Newman 1998:151).
Tom D'Acquino should know as he is the CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
While the average North American is becoming increasingly concerned by climate change, a recent report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers has found that fewer than a fifth – 18 per cent – of North American chief executives are concerned about climate change putting them increasingly out of step with their colleagues in Europe and Asia Pacific.
This a current list of the Chief Executive Officers of the Officers of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives:
- Dominic D'Alessandro, Vice Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO Manulife Financial
- Thomas d'Aquino, Chief Executive Officer and President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives
- Paul Desmarais. Jr. Vice Chair President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Chairman and C0-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada
- Richard L. George, Honorary Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives and President and CEO of Suncor Energy Inc.
- Jacques Lamarre, Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc.
- Gordon M. Nixon, Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada
- Hartley T. Richardson Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of James Richardson and Sons, Ltd.
- Annette Verschuren Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President of The Home Depot Canada
Selected bibliography
- Brownlee, Jamie. 2005. Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2006.Media and Objectivity: a Selected Timeline of Events
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2005. Interview with Jamie Brownlee in response to Globe and Mail article "Canada's top 10% pay 52% of total tax bill."
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's" Google Docs and Spreadsheet. mirror
- "The Globe and Mail Weekly Appointment Review." Globe and Mail. January 22, 2007. p. B6
- Hackett, Robert A. and Gruneau, Richard. 2000. The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada. Ottawa: Centre for Policy Alternatives/Garamond Press Inc.
- Hackett, Robert A. and Zhao, Yuezhi. 1998. Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity. Toronto: Garamond Press Inc.
- N/A. 2007. "U.S bosses out of step on climate change." Management-Issues
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1981. The Acquisitors.. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1998. Titans: How the New Establishment Seized Power. Toronto: Penguin Books.
- Olsen, Gregg. 1991. "Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden." Studies in Political Economy. 34.
- Olsen, Gregg. 2002. The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the United States.. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Brownlee's (2005) publication stems from his MA thesis supervised by University of Manitoba Sociology Professor Greg Olsen. It builds on the work of William Carroll, Wallace Clement and Murray Dobbin. I highly recommend this book for teaching, learning and research on how Ottawa really works. Some of the well-constructed arguments are located in sections entitled: economic cohesion and the structure of corporate capital, mergers and acquisitions, interlocking directorates, a class conscious business elite, public policy formation network, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Global policy organizations, advocacy think tanks and economic elite, corporate social responsibility and the role of states in the era of globalization. The bibliography is a book in itself. The appendices, Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks and Think Tanks – Corporate Director Board Interlocks for 2003 provide missing pieces to a puzzle.
I first read this book while preparing to teach a Northern-centred introductory human rights course in Iqaluit, Nunavut. My students were often employees of the Nunavut Government involved in making history as they introduced their own human rights bill. I wanted the inconvenient truth claims in Hackett and Zhao to be illegitimate but their research was unfortunately very robust. I thought I lived in a country whose forms of democratic governance were maturing until I read how we were actually going backwards not forwards in terms of objectivity and mass media.
These recent shifts in media ownership and policy might be seen as the equivalent of a non-violent coup d'etat, a metaphor evoking the inherent link between media power and state power — between the colonization of the popular imagination and the allocation of social resources through public policy and market relations. Communications scholar Herbert Schiller suggests that what is at stake is "packaged consciousness": the intensified appropriation of the national symbolic environment by a "few corporate juggernauts in the consciousness business (Hackett and Zhao 1998:5)
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Hobbel Bit DLL
This DLL allows you to write and read bits from a file with Game Maker.
A very useful feature is that you can set a size of bits you want to read or write.
So you can write a 3 bits integer without creating to much file size on writing a byte (8 bits).
For example view this:
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In the download a file called "bitlist.txt" is included wich has a list of bit size 1 till 31, followed by the maximum value can be writed with that number of bits.
Ofcourse a .gmd example, the .gml scripts, and .gmd and .gm6 embed files are included.
Example screenshot:
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The multi bit writing goes in one call,
like writing 16 bits
Bit_MWrite (handle,16,value);
Writing 4 bits twice, only writes one byte like this:
val 1: 1111 val 2: 1111
Data writed: 11111111
My dll only writes the bits into a byte when enough bits are given (except you close writing),
the same fact goes for reading.
I've added this to stop confusion for a bit ...
Edited by h0bbel, 19 September 2013 - 06:55 PM.


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A TEAM of locals with a head for heights recently took part in the three-peaks challenge to help raise money for a fledgling support group.
Patrick Lambert, aged 50, was among those taking part - he hopes that the event will raise awareness for Solihull Autistic Spectrum Support and Information (SASSI).
The Solihull man took part in the challenge with his daughter Hayley and his son Matthew. This trio was joined by other local people who wanted to support the organisation.
Starting at Ben Nevis on August 7, the group tackled Scafell on the early hours of August 8, before reaching the summit of Snowdon later the same day.
Funds raised from their efforts are expected to top £1,000.
Patrick said: "SASSI is a new support group, recently formed, to help families with children and young adults on the autistic spectrum.
"Meetings are held in schools throughout the Solihull borough to give an opportunity to all to access.
"The meetings are also open to professionals and those interested in autism. SASSIis also hoping to start a new group specifically for siblings, as autism can have a profound effect on all family members."
The next meeting is due to take place tomorrow (September 16) at Blossomfield Infant School.


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B-R-G Austria: All Species.
B-R-G FOX: Muledeer and Whitetail.
B-R-G Ghost Town: Muledeers
B-R-G Hunting Map: Muledeer, Blacktails and Whitetails.
B-R-G Hunting Resort: Muledeers and Whitetails
B-R-G Neighbourhood Playground: All Species
B-R-G Sniper3 Hybrid: Whitetails
B-R-G Tournament 1: All Species
B-R-G Tourney Map 2: Whitetails
B-R-G World Class Hunting: Whitetails
B-R-G International Park: Roedeer and Whitetails.
B-R-G Spyder Map: All Species
B-R-G Zakynthos: Axis Deers.
B-R-G Sniper-3' Wild West Hunting: Mule Deers
B-R-G Olympia: Blacktails
B-R-G Sneaking Around: Blacktail Muledeer and Whitetails.
Custom Map Installation:
Installing custom maps is relatively simple. The most difficult part is placing the map
in the proper folder on your hard drive. Custom Maps must be placed in the "CustomLevels" folder
under your game folder. The CustomLevels folder is generally located in
C:\Program Files\Atari\Deer Hunter 2005\Game\CustomLevels.
DH2005 custom levels will have a .spk file extension such as Chupa Island.spk
The following instructions are based on Internet Explorer V6.
If you are using another browser the procedure should be similar.
To download and install the custom level make sure DH2005 is not running,
then click on the Map Name which is found on the Current Tournament Rules page.
A "File Download" window will open asking if you want to Open,
Save, or Cancel the file download. Click on Save. A second window will open titled "Save as:.
In the upper portion of this window there is a small box which has Save in: to the left of it.
On the right side of this window there is a small downward pointing arrow.
Click on this arrow and it will show a drop down list of your hard drive(s) folders.
Click on the Drive Letter where your DH2005 game is installed. This is usually C:
next click on Program Files, then Atari, then Deer Hunter 2005, then Game and finally CustomLevels.
(C:\Program Files\Atari\Deer Hunter 2005\Game\CustomLevels.)
Now simply click on the Save button at the bottom right of the "Save as" window.
Once the file is saved it will have either an .spk file extension or a .zip file extension.
If it has a .spk extension it is ready to use.
If, however, it has a .zip file extension you will need to "unzip" the file before using it.
To unzip the file you will need a zip program installed on your computer
Windows XP has one built into it if using a different operating system
you may need to install one such as "WinZip".
Once you have an unzipping program you will need to go to the "Customlevels" folder
and select your downloaded .zip file. Double clicking on the file should bring it up in a window.
There will be an option to "Extract" the file either at the top of this window
or under the "File" menu in the upper left of the window. Select the file then click on extract.
In the "extract to" window browse to the "Customlevels" folder.
Extract the file into the "Customlevels" folder. It should extract with a .spk extension.
The file is now ready to use in your game.
Now start the DH2005 game,
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I hate you, you hate me,
We're a disfunctional family.
Then a shot rang out and Barney hit the floor,
No more fucking dinosaur.
You've heard the tale of Robin Hood,
And how he did poor people good,
There is more to this Famous story,
Of Sherwood Forest's Pride and Joy
At night when all robbing was done,
The merry men would have some fun,
In fact it would be fair to say,
The Merry men were rather gay.
As Little John starts to unwind,
Robin takes his from behind,
As they frolic in the grass,
Robin rams it up his arse.
One night when they were all at play,
A gorgeous maiden came their way,
She saunter up to Friar Tuck,
And Said "I'm Marion, wanna Fuck?"
Friar couldn't believe his ears,
She is offering sex to all us queers."
While he recovered from his shock,
Robin presented her with his cock.
Marion's clothes were off in a flash,
The 3 merry men all had a bash.
For Marion this was sheer bliss.
As they filled her with ever orifice,
When all was done she gave wine,
"Thank You boys for the lovely time,
"But for your pleasure you must pay,
"I've got the pox, have a nice day."
"Now listen here, "said Friar Tuck.
"We don't really give a fuck,
"The laughs on you, you silly cow,
"We've got AIDS, so who's fucked now."
There was an old woman'
who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children
that her cunt fell off!!
Here I sit Same as ever
Dirty arse, got no paper
Boss is calling,
Can not linger
Stuff it, I'll use me finger
Sent by Sarah
Abort, Retry, Ignore
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore."
Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.
Carefully, I weighed my options.
These three seemed to be the top ones.
Clearly, I must now adopt one:
Choose Abort, Retry, Ignore.
With my fingers pale and trembling,
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee
Finally I pressed a key -
But on the screen what did I see?
Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."
I tried to catch the chips off-guard -
I pressed again, but twice as hard.
Luck was just not in the cards.
I saw what I had seen before.
Now I typed in desperation
Trying random combinations
Still there came the incantation:
Choose: Abort, Retry, Ignore.
There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw an awful sight:
A bold and blinding flash of light -
A lightning bolt had cut the night and shook me to my very core.
I saw the screen collapse and die
"Oh no - my database," I cried.
I thought I heard a voice reply,
"You'll see your data Nevermore."
To this day I do not know
The place to which lost data goes.
I bet it goes to heaven where the angels have it stored.
But, as for productivity, well
I fear that it goes straight to hell.
And that's the tale I have to tell.
Your choice: Abort, Retry, Ignore.
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Here we go again. Family Musing is heading out for a fun filled Thanksgiving with family. No more posts this week, I'm afraid.
And when I return I promise more science and fun stuff and less of this damn politics. Dems won, more news in January, 'nuf said. TTFN (Ta ta for now as Tigger would say)


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Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette.
— Neal Stephenson, REAMDE
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Zen Ultraphone 701 FHD Now Available At Rs 17,999: Top 5 Midrange FHD Phablets Rivalry
Earlier this month, GizBot ran an exclusive story saying that Zen would come up with a Full HD handset within this month. Now the device has been announced and its dubbed as Ultraphone 701FHD. It has been already made available at Rs. 17,999 on Snapdeal. However, this is not a completely new handset but instead a tweaked version of Zen Ultrafone 701 HD which was launched back in April.
Going by the specs, the new handset comes with a 5-inch full HD IPS display based on one-glass solution (OGS) technology and Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection. It offers a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
It is powered by 1.5 GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and runs on Android Jelly Bean v4.2.
The phablet houses 16GB internal storge capacity which can be expanded up to 64GB via microSD card.
Connectivity options remain regular with 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, microUSB and aGPS. Apart from that, as regular as it may sound, it also features a Dual SIM (GSM + WCDMA) support with Dual Standby.
It has a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash capable of shooting video at 1080p Full HD quality. It also features a massive 8-megapixel front-facing shooter which is very rare in mobile devices.
The handset draws its energy from a 2050 mAh battery. The handset would be officially launched on 28th October, 2013.
A couple of days back even Micromax launched its latest Canvas Turbo with the similar Full HD display. It comes with a 2GB RAM and would be the Ultrafone 701 FHD's direct competitor. There is also Spice Pinnacle FHD Mi-525, Intex Aqua i7, Lenovo K900 and Zopo ZP990.
Lets take a look at the specs and price of these devices in the slides below:
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Micromax Canvas Turbo
It comes with a 5.0-inch CGS IPS display offering a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It runs on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) OS and is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589T processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. It sports 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera which we have already seen in the Canvas 4. The rear camera is also capable of recording video at full HD resolution. There is a regular connectivity options which includes 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, aGPS. Apart from that, the handset also has a Dual SIM (GSM + WCDMA) support with Dual Standby (One standard SIM and one Micro-SIM). It houses 16 GB of internal storage capacity of which only 12.47 GB is user accessible and it comes with a full aluminum casing. The latest phablet which measures 8.66mm thick draws its energy from a 2000 mAh battery.
Spice Pinnacle FHD Mi-525
The Pinnacle FHD Mi- 525 costs reasonable in comparison to Samsungs and Sonys. The device packs a 5.0-inch display having resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It comes with a 16.7 M colors and video recording at 1080p (30fps). It is is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core coupled with 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal memory ( expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card). Android 4.2 Jelly Bean comes out of the box. There's an 8MP rear facing camera with Auto Focus and dual LED Flash light. Also add a 2MP front facing camera. The makers have added a 2100mAh Li Ion battery. Other connectivity options include: Dual SIM, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and gesture based features.
Intex Aqua i7
The Aqua i7 has a 5-inch Full HD display having resolution of 1920X1080 pixels. The Corning Gorilla Glass protects the device against any scratches. The device is powered by a 1.5GHz quad core MediaTek MT6589 processor coupled with 2GB RAM and 32GB of ROM. Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean comes out of the box. There's an app called "Matrabhasha" - it's a multi-lingual application comes pre-loaded on Intex Aqua i7. The handset packs a 13-mega pixel rear facing shooter and a 5-mega pixel camera on the front. The rear facing camera is capable of recoding videos in Full HD format. The device measures 7.88 mm in terms of thickness and weighs 149 grams. Other connectivity features include: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GSM +WCDMA, 3G, FM Radio and Dual SIM capability. The makers have gone for a 2,000mAh Li Ion battery. The phone also supports microSIM.
Zopo ZP990
The Zopo ZP990 comes packed with a 6 inch screen FHD display and features IPS TFT Multi-touch capacitive Screen offering pixel density of PPI 367. It is powered by 1.5GHz Cortex-A7 quad-core processor with PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU and a MT6589T chipset coupled with 1GB RAM. It runs on Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean OS. In the camera segment, one can find a 13Megapixel rear camera with Auto Focus and LED Flash and there is also a 5.0MP front-facing shooter. Connectivity options include Dual sim dual standby (WCDMAGSM+GSM), 2G (GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz), 3G (WCDMA 850/2100 MHz), HSDPA (42.2Mbps?HSUPA 11.5Mbps), Micro USB v2.0, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS, A-GPS. The device also includes Gravity Sensor, Compass and proximity sensor. The internal storage capacity of the handset is rated at 32 GB ROM which can be expanded up to 64GB via microSD card. Eventually, the Zopo ZP990 is powered by a Li-Polymer 3100 mAh Battery.
Lenovo K900
The Lenovo K900 comes with a 5.5-inch IPS display having resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels at 400ppi. It is powered by a 2GHz dual-core processor powered by Intel Atom Z2580 chipset coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB ROM (non-expandable). Android 4.2 Jelly Bean comes out of the box with Lenovo's own home backed UI on the top. There's a 13MP rear facing camera with Auto Focus, Dual LED Flash Light and F/1.8 lens on the board. Also add a 2MP camera on the front. The makers have added a 2,500mAh Li Ion non-removable battery. Other highlighted specifications include: 3G, Wi-Fi, 2G, Bluetooth 3.0, and A-GPS, among others.
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Thank you to the millions of people around the world who, on January 21, came together to raise our voices. But our march forward does not end here. Now is the time to get our friends, family and community together and MAKE HISTORY.
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The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us – immigrants of all statuses, Muslims and those of diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, survivors of sexual assault – and our communities are hurting and scared. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.
In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women's March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.
We support the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities. We call on all defenders of human rights to join us. This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up. We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society. We work peacefully while recognizing there is no true peace without justice and equity for all.
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The Kragelund tunic is a bog find, dated to 1040-1155 (or circa 1100).
The following photo and pattern come from this site: http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/1_Originaly/01_Goticke/I_01_30.htm
An alternative pattern can be found here: http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/garments/Kragelund/Kragelund.html
I have adapted this pattern to the size and shape of the client, who is very tall and slim. I have also changed the cut of the neck opening.
(After the initial sewing I noticed that the neck decoration is not symmetrical, it got corrected, don't worry 😉 )


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Alaska by James A. Michener
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my second Michener book after shying away from him for years and years because of his reputation. Now, I find myself enjoying the books for all the knowledge I get in very palatable form. As in the earlier book of Michener's that I read, "The Source," he starts with prehistoric times, and then mixes stories with facts to give a complete history of the place. It's not a great work of literature, some of the stories are too cheesy. But without this book, I would never have bothered to learn much about Alaska beyond what has been in the news the last two years about its flaky former governor. The book is more than 1,000 pages long, but if you take it in little bites (it took me almost four months to finish it,) it's worth the effort.


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Book by my bedside: Confessions of a Sociopath // M.E Thomas
I never considered myself to be an avid reader until I began to experience a series of sleepless nights. I'd lay in bed and imagine myself being in a Fight Club-esque situation and, truth be told, having a split personality really does not work with my class schedule.
I find that reading parts of a book before I fall asleep allows me to drift off into a character's problems which can, in some ways, be rather therapeutic. My current escape has been a memoir-style book about a non-violent, high functioning sociopath, titled Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E Thomas.
For those of you who don't quite know what a sociopath is, it's basically someone who is unable to tap into their empathy. They can tell what's right from wrong, but they don't feel any form of remorse if they choose to do the wrong thing.
So far I have been finding the book incredibly interesting. It gives you a detailed insight into the clockwork of the writer's head following a chronological recount of her life as a sociopath towards becoming a successful law professor.
Perhaps the manipulation began to work on me instantly, but I found myself being drawn towards her and believing everything she says, finding her almost endearing. This is an interesting parallel as she explicitly mentions in her book that she is able to manipulate people into accepting everything she says. It was fascinating to see that translate into her writing.
Another compelling factor is how I started to identify several people in my life who also possess these traits that she explains in the book. It is said that 1 in 25 people are sociopaths, and although they normally carry a negative connotation (often associated with criminals), there are a large number of them who live their everyday lives, not causing harm to others.
This book does draw light on a mental illness that is often misunderstood and has personally made me more open-minded. Perhaps sociopathy isn't as terrifying as the rest of the world makes it out to be.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a knack for finding out how other people's heads work. It is an entertaining book because of the way it is written, but it does tackle a number of serious issues pertaining to the personality disorder. It has been an interesting read so far, and I do see myself eagerly finishing it over the next week.
Rating so far: 4/5
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