To give one small example: A friend of mine attended a live taping of a CBC “At Issue” panel wearing a T-shirt that read “9/11 Was an Inside Job”. CBC staff came to him quietly and said: “Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to cover that shirt”. Regardless of what you believe about 9/11 truth issues, the CBC (as a promoter of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory) does not want Canadians to know that some of us question the official version of events. My friend refused to cover his shirt and so the shirt was seen (briefly) on national television.

As for consensus on climate change: Here you are simply wrong. Hundreds of scientists in relevant fields have expressed deep concern with “science” behind the anthropomorphic global warming theory. There is no consensus at all. It is a controversy.

I say this by the way as a life-long conservationist, environmentalist, green-voter and someone who has been concerned about global warming for at least fifteen years.

When the media, including the CBC, tell us that scientists are united in their understanding of global warming, they are simply lying. This is just not true by any stretch of the imagination. The pressure behind the anti global warming movement is mostly economic and political – it is not grounded in science.

My personal opinion is that the recent BP oil spill illustrates a far more urgent concern than global warming. I believe that we should stop using fossil fuels now. Ironically, global warming might turn out to be the least of our concerns.

Incidentally, what this proves about “truth” is that our understanding of any given issue is ever evolving. We rarely have a full grasp on any situation. As we inform ourselves, a deeper truth always reveals itself.

I believed for a long time (ten + years) that we humans were the key drivers of global climate change. As I learn more, I look at things a little differently. This does not make me a “denier” or diminish my concern over our unsustainable and irresponsible practices which currently threaten every eco-system on earth.

Keep digging for the truth.

Love and Peace,

Michael Hey

While it’s true that the Nobel Prize was surprising even for Obama himself, the idea that what he represents as a fundamentally new approach to U.S. foreign policy and the very real strength of his idealism that has resonated with people around the world, can certainly not be underestimated in the adjudication of his merit of the award.

I would further humbly suggest that he is removing the U.S. footprint in Iraq, despite calls from many quarters, including Iraqis themselves. for American forces to remain. He has escalated the war in Afghanistan, which I personally don’t support, although I recognize that the growing instabiliy in Pakistan has rendered few if any alternatives that are even remotely benign. After 8 years of ignoring the conflict by the Bush administration, there appears to be only varying degrees of losing that can be achieved.

‘Some demonize FOX as supporters of the U.S. Republican Party while others demonize CNN as the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. Incidentally, both of these are facts.’

FOX is a Right wing propaganda machine, but suggesting CNN is its counterpart for the Left is highly dubious; I stopped watching their coverage of the 2008 Presidential election because of the obvious Right wing bias they projected, and have seen nothing that would suggest they have become any less overt in their current broadcasting agenda.

‘In Canada’s political climate, who among you would expect that the CBC would ever produce the truth? What is the truth? ‘

That’s precisely the point; this was not always the case.

‘What is the truth? Perhaps the truth is subjective after all. It seems to depend on one’s point of view. My truth is more truthful than your truth. My facts are more accurate than your factoids.’

I can only hope you’re being sarcastic.

‘Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.’

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

Once, the CBC represented the best in journalistic integrity, but that was long ago when Tommy Hunter reigned supreme and Barbara Frum had no idea what a jackass her son would turn out to be.

Like the tobacco and oil industries, the news is now an overtly profit based enterprise that will fight tooth and nail to deny their complicity in destroying humankind with their inherently profane product.

This does nothing to lessen the mind numbing response by the CBC in defense of their ludicrous claim that they ‘are not obligated to determine what is “truth,”‘ a statement to vile and contemptuous, it would be more apt from a producer on FOX.

‘The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.’

Niels Bohr (1885 – 1962)