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When I was a young father and had to do what I had to do in order to bring food to the table, I'm sure more than a few of you been there, I took a job as a parking lot maintenance guy. Shitty job with few perks except I had to go in behind the central library every night and would take the time to go through their garbage.....Mainly discarded books. ok I wasn't a Dad at the time but was a lot younger In the heap I found a text that was part of a media course from the 60's that used existing stories which were political and at that time current. It was the Vietnam war and the book showed, using actual news stories, how different the reporting could be from one newspaper to the next because of the political leanings of the publisher. In the 60's and 70's financial control meant a united front no matter how many newspapers you owned they would all report as the head office wanted. No matter the facts all editorials on certain subjects would be directly influe...

Winter is over but the students of Quebec are still discontent and as usual Main Stream Media  give the bare minimum of facts. Matter of fact the only fact seems to be that tuition's had to rise and the students didn't like it. So typical of news today where the story is generally still born from a lack of nutrition and that would be facts and possibilities. If you take in only the headlines then you probably think that these students should buck up and realize that the cost of everything has gone up and you'd think being students they'd know that: if the government needs money to grab they will take it from the least vocal taxpayers...the student, kids and the elderly. Without reading anything I see what the fuss is about. Without looking to deep I see that this is big and right now I wish I knew French. I haven't read a word not one  word and I think I see their point. If it is not what the students are saying then this is completely my opinion but...