Newspaper Gone Wrong

Today’s Toronto Sun cover reads like a promotional brochure from a prominent multinational oil corporation. Bikes are bad, and investing in “Green” technology is fruitless.

In the “BIKE BLITZ” by-line, it reads “Cops crack down on rogue cyclists”. Rogue cyclists? Are you kidding me? 49 of the tickets to “rogue” cyclists were written for not having a working bell. Another 40 of those tickets were given to people without proper reflecting lights – that hardly sounds “rogue” to me.

In the main headline “GREEN GONE WRONG”, the conclusion of the article is that it’s not worth it to invest in solar panels. Never mind the environmental benefits that you get from producing solar energy, if there is no economic benefit then people shouldn’t invest.

It’s comical that the Toronto Sun inserts disclaimers into articles just to make an outrageous story. In this particular article the disclaimer reads: “Some of that, they acknowledge, has been their responsibility. They realize they've had trouble filling out some of their forms -- not knowing whether they were an embedded generator or a load customer. And Mary notes that when Peter gets excited his voice does tend to rise a bit.”

For every step forward we take, newspapers like the Toronto Sun put us two steps back. Good thing the only people who take this tabloid newspaper seriously are a small batch of right-wing nuts who are already hopelessly ignorant on the environmental issues of today.