Chester refuses to fly RED CROSS’s flag : CBC rages !!!

CBC OUTRAGED as Chester accepts Red Cross disaster assistance but won’t fly their flag

The municipality of Chester Nova Scotia has had a flag policy since 2007 that only flags of governments can be flown by the municipal flagpoles, while everyone else is completely free to fly whatever flag they want.

But when Chester refused to fly the flag of the Red Cross after all the aid the organization had provided Chester residents in their hours of need, the CBC’s Robyn Simon was there to publicly fan the flames of one Red Cross supporter’s irate discontent.

Wasn’t she just .....?

No, actually Robyn’s efforts were made on behalf of an irate Pride supporter protesting Chester’s flag policy.

My point is that mainstream media, just like prosecutors, have enormous ‘discretionary’ powers in deciding whether or not to proceed with a news story or prosecution.

They claim to be objective, but nothing is ever more subjective and arbitrary (rather like a municipal ‘pick and choose’ flag policy, in fact ) than deciding this or that story is not ‘newsworthy’ or that this or that prosecution is ‘likely’ to win.

One might think such subjective decisions are best made by juries —— or the news stories clicking public.

When they are not, we get biased news and biased prosecution policies.

Ask yourself, if in the year 2020, an irate supporter of the Red Cross had called CBC Halifax that Chester won’t fly their flag, do you think it would it have rated this full out CBC effort ?

Now a lot of people think that because this media discrimination is being on behalf of Pride efforts, it is good discrimination : but 30 years ago - in the year 1980, the shoe would have been on the other foot.

Back then, senior CBC staffers would definitely have rushed to support the Red Cross’s complaint, remembering its war time efforts with gratitude, while finding a Pride complaint un-newsworthy.

So, it is not that the mainstream media doesn’t listen to the general public : they do so acutely, too acutely.

So when the general public is indifferent to Pride or Red Cross, unfairly so, the CBC dutifully tacks along with the general prejudice.

But when the CBC does that, it fails at its job....