{"id":510,"date":"2006-10-08T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2006-10-08T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:59:09","slug":"travel-propaganda-leans-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Travel Propaganda Leans Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday I took off for San Jose, California on a work excursion.  While travelling I began to notice the trend that left leaning MSM propaganda is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three years, I have probably been on about 40 different business trips and stayed in dozens of different hotels.  While on all these trips I can conclude the following.<\/p>\n<p>1)  The TV station of choice for displaying in American airports is CNN.<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>2)  The newspaper that inevitably sits on my hotel room doorstep each morning is USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t usually irk me until I sat down for my 3 hour layover in Toronto, looked up and saw that the Greater Toronto Airport Authority has partnered up with CBC to propagandize our travellers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the fact that I saw as many people on laptops as I did watching the TVs was a good sign of the way things are moving in the world.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone out there knows what is on other Canadian airport monitors, please feel free to comment.  Since most of my travel was to the US, I am not as familiar with other Canadian airports outside of the TV in the smoking lounge at the Ottawa airport which was flexible.  (I would consistently change the station to CTV newsnet whenever I had a chance)<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, on this trip I got to run into Tim Powers, the Conservative pundit who is on Mike Duffy Live a couple of times a week and on CFRA weekly.  I took a few minutes to say hi and let him know I enjoyed watching him spar with the other party pundits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday I took off for San Jose, California on a work excursion. While travelling I began to notice the trend that left leaning MSM propaganda is everywhere. Over the last three years, I have probably been on about 40 different business trips and stayed in dozens of different hotels. While on all these trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,47,71,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-msm-bias","category-personal","category-technology","category-the-big-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}