Country Guide fires Tim Ball

[Kodiak]

Dr. Tim Ball, one of the most informative writers on weather and climate, has been fired from the Country Guide because the new editor 'didn't like his views'.

You can find some good information here.....

http://www.nrsp.com/

I've been noticing a big decline in the quality and value of farm newspapers recently. Has anyone else? It's a good thing the internet age has arrived, as traditional sources of valuable information dry up.


Sidebar: I wonder how long Rex Murphy will be at the CBC before they decide they don't like his views? Good ole' Rex makes a lot of sense here....

http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/rex_murphy/bali_logic.html

[TOM4CWB]

Kodiak,

AMEN.

[Fransisco]

I agree the farm papers are getting worse. The Manitoba cooperator and the western producer are so far to the left that I don't bother reading them much anymore. There are so many other sources of information these days, I can get my news elsewhere.

Looks like country guide is heading down the same road. It's too bad, I always liked Tims articles.

[Fransisco]

Kodiak I'm looking for the details on the website and not finding them. Can you point me a little more in the right direction?

[Kodiak]

Fran, I'm not sure what details you're looking for.

[Fransisco]

The details on Ball getting canned.

[Kodiak]

If you read the Country Guide, the last issue has a parting message in his column. While he doesn't say in the column why its his last one, he has indicated the reason by personal email.

It’s too bad we live in an age where journalists and editors eschew honest investigative reporting, and fail to provide balanced editorial content. It’s not that most of the mainstream farm papers have been up to the standards they should. For years they pretty much all had the same consistent and predictable political bias. The Country Guide, as much as any farm journal ever did, refused to go down the same path as the rest in its journalism, and brought a different editorial viewpoint. Since virtually all prairie farm newspapers and magazines are now owned by one company, and run by the small cadre of ideological clones, there isn’t much of a choice in the print media to pick from.

If we were to depend only on the print media for our news, we’d miss an enormous amount of relevant news and be fed a steady diet of the same flavor of editorial pablum. Thankfully through the world wide web, its relatively effortless if one wants to spend some time, to find a diversity of news sources, and some refreshing and differing viewpoints.

I'll be dropping my subscription to the Country Guide. It's too bad. It's been a fixture in our mailbox for nearly 3 generations. But it really has little if any value left. Tim Ball's page was a favorite. Instead of parroting the trendy and fashionable perspective that is being promoted by an unquestioning, subjective media and by the entertainment establishment, he dared to bring objective science into his interpretations of weather and climate.

[bgmb]

I agree our in print and television media is going down hill.

If its not mainstream it can't carve out enough of a market to survive classic example is the western standard magazine.

It seems these days everyone is afraid to say what they are thinking out in the open.

nut not on agriville haha

[Fransisco]

I'm thinking the bogus Human Rights case against the standard may have had something to do with it.

Lawyers aren't cheap.

[Kodiak]

Frankly, I think part of our problem with the print side of things in prairie ag papers, is there hasn't been a decent newspaper to compete with the poor ones that are there now. The only paper that has a different approach is Grainnews, and that one, despite its name, isn't a newspaper.

I'd still very much like to see a strong weekly farm NEWSpaper, but I'd like one that doesn't slant its selection of stories and the way it reports them. The options we have at this time are more intent on promoting a political agenda than objectively reporting on relavent news. I can't be bothered to read them. They are so predictable and their agenda is so transparent they're just a joke.

[parsley]

On line blogs and daily newsletters are replacing waiting a week for old news.

"A stand can be made against the invasion of an army; no stand can be made against the invasion of an idea."

Victor Hugo 1802-1885

Farmers marketing their own wheat is a new idea. An irreversible one.

Parsley

[cottonpicken]

Ya poor ol tim ball,we should have got him into political office and then sent him over to bali to help with the canadain governments actions in pissing the world off.

I bet that helped our grain trade.

Did you see the clip of the canadian delegation slipping out the back door?F*ckin Losers.

Another harper strikeout.

[silverback]

Yes how utterly stupid of little 2% Canada to suggest that every country in the world sign onto emission reductions if they were really serious.

It would be much better for us to send our cash to China and India to sooth our guilty little minds.

[FarmRanger]

The whole Kyoto thing proves the scam. If the enviroscammers really believed that CO2 was causing a global disaster they wouldn’t be suggesting that poor nations should build their polluting industries on the dime of “rich” western democracies (soon to be poor according to the link provided by cp in another thread)
Either there is too much CO2 being released or there’s not. Pumping out even more CO2 in developing nations new coal plants with the money expropriated from the 1st world via the Kyoto scam helps reduce emissions – how?

[freewheat]

So Tim Ball got fired for explaining to the masses that global warming is a hoax? When the world realizes he is right, what will these eco-religious nuts say then? What will be their next big thing?
I am cancelling my subscription if this is accurate.