5 Feet of Fury

My new PajamasMedia piece about the Mark Steyn Show Trial

“Canada’s liberal mainstream media more or less shrugged. A veteran journalism professor condemned the ‘xenophobic’ Steyn in an online forum for professional reporters, accusing Steyn of failing to express his opinions ‘in food [sic] faith,’ then scolding prissily that ‘everyone must obey the law.’

“With professors like that training journalists, it is no wonder that the state-run, taxpayer-funded CBC got the name of Steyn’s book wrong, their local reporters admitted they knew nothing about the case they’d been sent to cover, and rival outlet CTV published an amateurish, glorified book review in lieu of an objective, unbiased news report…”

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“Not a few bloggers noted ruefully that the last day of Steyn’s trial coincided with the anniversary of D-Day, and wondered what the Canadian men who’d died on Juno Beach would make of their nation today…”