Tag: Media Convergence

Okay, Ezra won a battle this week with Alberta’s NDP government.  They tried to toss him from press events held by the government, and he made enough of a stink about it to get the government to back down.  In the last few days, we’ve seen all sorts of media personalities start blathering on about how the government was being heavy handed, and that Ezra’s team has a right to be there just as they do.  After all, how do you define “journalist”?, they argue.

Let me be abundantly clear here:  I don’t like Ezra Levant.  I never have.  He conducts himself as a public spectacle, and has been abundantly clear that he has no respect for anyone who dares to disagree with him.  That’s his choice, I don’t have to like it.

However, in reading Andrew Coyne’s diatribe on the matter (which is really just a thinly veiled attack on the CBC), it occurred to me that all of the arguments made supporting Ezra Levant fail to acknowledge the moral and ethical issues that the field of journalism in Canada has largely ignored for most of my adult life.