@barrykiefl.bsky.social
President of Canadian Media Research Inc.
Only 20% answered the question about Canada positively in the latest survey, 50% answered negatively, perhaps conditioning the response to the next question about Carney’s performance. Comparing the results of the two surveys is dubious imo. Do journalists analyze survey results?
15.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The latest Angus Reid Institute opt-in survey claims Carney’s approval rating declined by 6 points. The latest questionnaire differed in an important way. The latest survey inserted a question about how Canada was performing in general before asking about approval of Carney.
15.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
Last two @abacusdataca election polls demonstrate why one should use demographic results of opt-in polls with extreme caution. On the eve of the election Abacus reported that Liberals had a 14-point lead among persons 18-29. Their next poll had CPC up by 9-points in this demo.
25.05.2025 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last two @abacusdataca election polls demonstrate why one should use demographic results of opt-in polls with extreme caution. On the eve of the election Abacus reported that Liberals had a 14-point lead among persons 18-29. Their next poll had CPC up by 9-points in this demo.
25.05.2025 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very much appreciate your takes on CNBC and MSNBC, making sense of the chaos.
07.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your take on all these Trump people is an antidote.
06.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Update on this story:
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has issued a statement announcing it can no longer accept emails about CTV Your Morning and Rachel Gilmore due to receiving a “large number of complaints”
www.cbsc.ca/make-a-compl...
Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
David, admire your work but decisions about experts/pundits needs transparency:
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The internet has numerous stories of Lutnick claiming companies will pay *higher* taxes under Trump, exploding Trump’s tariffs-will-replace-taxes strategy.
Lutnick gives used car salesmen a bad name.
Trump/Lutnick contradict Trump’s tariff strategy by claiming the gold card will create jobs for people *who will pay taxes*. Facebook and Instagram have removed video receipts but our FP had the story.
financialpost.com/news/economy/t…
I imagine hundreds of thousands of Canadians have attended university in the U.S. I received a master’s degree from Boston University in ‘73. It was a wonderful experience.
In the Trump era will Canadians shun the great American universities in Boston? @BU_Tweets @Harvard @MIT
When I watched this this morning I couldn’t believe a senior person in the WH would stoop this low. America has a cancer.
03.03.2025 02:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yeah, respectable journalists definitely need to do whatever they can to maintain access to this stuff.
Fuck the AP, there are new hats!!!
Nice to see Elon’s net worth fell by ~8% or roughly $32 billion today. DOGE has been successful at cutting something.
25.02.2025 21:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hamas is a brutal, barbaric terrorist organization and the common enemy of the Israeli and Palestinian people and all of humanity.
21.02.2025 02:06 — 👍 341 🔁 62 💬 45 📌 6So, if someone fervently believes assassinating a politician will “save” the country, it’s legal?
18.02.2025 00:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The survey report fails to mention that a large majority are unsure which Ontario party can best deal with Trump.
Haven’t read all the survey report but there are a series of issues, which don’t add credibility…
Eventually the Adams case will trickle down to someone who will just follow orders and dismiss it.
Make that person historically infamous.
(Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)
I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
“Jacobs bought her home for $7,000 in 1947, rehabilitated it, and sold it 24 years later for $45,000. …Five years after that interview, it sold again, for $3.3 million; today, the city assesses it at $6.6 million.”
10.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Well, at least he’s championing that great athletes don’t necessarily have great minds/broadcasting skills.
10.02.2025 02:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After Kristen Welker let National Security Adviser Michael Waltz lie and evade on NBC's "Meet the Press," she wound up her interview by asking him for his Super Bowl pick.
That's how you normalize fascists and tell them you're friendly enough that they can come back later and lie some more.
Musk’s Starlink connects to all smartphones…
09.02.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I do wonder how much this remarkable moment and picture in 2019, which went viral, is a reason for his nutty threats against Canada now.
08.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 594 🔁 111 💬 76 📌 7@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“"Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals."
The media, especially TV networks like CNN, MSNBC and the 3 blind mice, are the willing transmitters of the show.
