What I find most amusing about Le Devoir is its cloaking of an obvious crude nationalism in a kind of fancy intellectual dress. At least Le Journal de Montreal has the balls to let it it all hang out.... If you don't believe me - have a look at Lise Payette's - shallow yet hypocritical piece on the ADQ recounting the roots of the party (from yesterdays edition)... I could not help thinking how appropriate such a title would be in looking at the roots of the Pequiste movement (and it must be said - the PQ itself).

Hey Ma! Look at what the cat dragged-in!
Here comes the chaplain of political-correctness, the liberal knight who in his gross cluelessness cannot even hear the big **WHOOOSSSHHHH** of the real situation flying over his head, and leaves the barn door open for all those who don't dive a darn about the french to barge-in and swamp Québec into oblivion. Even worse, that chaplain may even be french, which shows that he either has not learned a thing from History, or that he has got his fingers in too many anglo-saxon pies, which explain his vested interest in the status-quo (tu m’as bien lu, Gilles. Si t’es français, en parlant comme ça, tu démontre bien que tu es un vendu).
Just because our nationalism is defensive against anglo-saxon imperialism, it has to be **double-plus ungood**, but let the same anglo-saxons be threatened by “beaners”, “niggers“, “ragheads” or “chinks”, it’s all fine and well if they take measures to protect themselves. The anglo-saxon hypocrite double-standard at work again.
Here is a guy lamenting that we, the downtrodden french, are taking measures not to be downtrodden again, and that in doing this, are preventing the english from downtrodding us, because in his little bird-brain, he does not understand that being nice and tolerant nearly drove us to extinction at the hands of people who are not very tolerant at all.

An even more intellectually dishonest piece yesterday: "L'ethnologue Et La Nation" by Christian Rioux rationalizes xenophobia but in quite an original way - by using quotations from Claude Levi Strauss of all people (oh and out of context too I might add).....

Talk about dishonesty!!!!
You may try to fool others into believing that the anglo-saxons are more tolrerant than us, but you won’t fool me the slightest.

"You must remember that Le Devoir only sells about 35,000 copies per day and at that rate - it is tougher to sustain a newspaper on advertising alone . Its main bag is Quebec nationalism - which the public in Quebec has gobbled up more frequently in the past (at least during election time)-but which is - becoming a harder sell with time.

What I find most amusing about Le Devoir is its cloaking of an obvious crude nationalism in a kind of fancy intellectual dress. At least Le Journal de Montreal has the balls to let it it all hang out....

If you don't believe me - have a look at Lise Payette's - shallow yet hypocritical piece on the ADQ recounting the roots of the party (from yesterdays edition)... I could not help thinking how appropriate such a title would be in looking at the roots of the Pequiste movement (and it must be said - the PQ itself).

An even more intellectually dishonest piece yesterday: "L'ethnologue Et La Nation" by Christian Rioux rationalizes xenophobia but in quite an original way - by using quotations from Claude Levi Strauss of all people (oh and out of context too I might add).....

If it wasn't so sad it would be very amusing....."

That in effect - as I see it- sums up much of Quebec media today...

"[Le Devoir] also is not a reactionnary mouthpiece."

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I love it. The language is so completely straight out of the late 1960's, baby-boomer, Little-Red-Book-inspired, Sir-George-Williams-computer-riot, vanguard-of-the-workers, FLQ-manifesto, socialist utopian dream.

It's so quaint, seeing that, even though the world has passed it by in the intervening 40 years.

Jean, I find your lack of solidarity and fellow-feeling - not with Power Corp of course but for your fellow workers terribly sad. Those are real people who have to make a living. Moreover, these cuts in working conditions are a huge step backwards for everyone in communications and related fields. I remember the big La Presse strikes - important events in the history of the workers' movement in Québec.

Why should I care about those who work for a scumbag’s mouthpiece when they have a big honking union that looks after them when I have nobody to look after myself except me??? You see, I happen to have been born in the wrong generation, because the generation that got all the cushy unionized jobs have left nothing but crumbs for us (and the bill for it).
There is no way I am going to have a job half as cushy as those people have even if I work twice as hard as them.

La Presse vend 200 000 copies par jour. Combiens parmis eux lisent les éditoriaux fédéralistes d'André Pratte? Tu penses réellement qu'un journal est capable à lui seul d'empêcher une population entière à se faire une idée?

Arrive au 21e siècle, les deux tiers des Québécois n'ont rien à foutre du raddotage séparatiste de victimisation. Tu peux t'en prendre à La Presse, Radio-Canada, le maire Tremblay, à Hérouxville, la Gazette, Star-Académie tant qu'à y être. Le problême, c'est ta mentalité de croit ou crêve! Tellement convaincu de tes dogmes que tu seras jamais capable de comprendre que d'autres pensent autrement.

Même pu besoin d'être un anglais pour rire de le détresse des séparatistes.

What should we read instead of La Presse? If I were to guess, I think Le Devoir is your paper of choice. I don't think you have any love for Péladeau nor his rag Hournal de Mourial!

Why is why I am “wasting my time here” preaching sovereingty to you blokes.

Oh yeah? How's that been working out for you so far? Feel like you're getting a good return on investment?

You know what else has been the biggest impediment to Québec’s sovereignty?
Voters.

Yes, voters because they are hoodwinked and bamboozled by a coterie of swindlers, and many of those scribble under the wing of Desmarais.
“One man, one vote” has always been the bane of the Establishment, and they have always endeavoured very hard to have the good people sprinkled with superficial shiny objects to distract their attention from the real issues. La (grosse) Praïsse is such an endeavour, of a level more subtle than the grossest mean used, professional hokey.
When given the actual raw facts, anyone of good faith will support Québec’s sovereignty if he has no vested interest in the status-quo. Yes, even the bad old english (there are plenty of english sovereignists, even from Britain).
Why is why I am “wasting my time here” preaching sovereingty to you blokes.

Do you need a hug, Jean?

No, and especially not from you.

http://mediabiz.branchez-vous.com/2008/03/negociations_la_pressecyberpre.html

http://www.ajiq.qc.ca/blogue/ne-signez-pas-le-contrat-de-publication-de-lhebdomadaire-ici.php (now no one signs their contracts) / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ici_(magazine)