NEWSPAPER
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We will continue to speak truth to power
All the recent furor about anglophone media is without any basis. More importantly, it is not we alone that are saying it. The Francophone media has said the same.
The SSJB's scurrilous letter attacking the Globe and Mail, the National Post and The Gazette for creating an atmosphere of incitement by calling the PQ's program xenophobic, among other adjectives the Society objects too, is hypocritical on its face.
As our editor demanded of Mario Beaulieu, the SSJB's president on LCN Friday night, why has the SSJB not condemned francophone journalists who have criticized the PQ's platform in equally harsh terms? Beaulieu meekly responded, "well they're not acceptable either." Writers like Lysiane Gagnon, Alain Dubuc and Mario Roy of La Presse; Eric Duhaime, Richard Martineau, Jacques Samson, Jerome Landry and Benoit Aubin of Le Journal de Montreal, have written with equal vigour for an end to the politics of division and discord and appeal to the lowest common denominator.
The SSJB claims it simply wants a more "moderate" tone. That is not true. At the same time that it want auto-emanicipation for Quebec, it wants auto-censuration for the media. That will not happen. Quebec media, francophone, anglophone and allophone will never be complicit in its own self-abnegation. We will continue to speak truth to power. And we are not alone in this noble endeavour.
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