9. Mark Steyn currently has a libel case based on comments he made about a climate scientists that are very Levant-esque.
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11. Mention of Steyn and climate bullshitters of National Post should remind us of where Levant comes from: the early days of the Post.
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12. In the early days of National Post, the paper had to make many, many apologies for libel. Not an accident, but systematic to paper.
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13. Some early National Post history: Conrad Black and Ken Whyte wanted paper that pushed Canada to the right.
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14. Ken Whyte also had the view that J-school education hampers lively journalistic writing (I was beneficiary of this view).
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15. So in the early days of Post, you had many guys who wanted to make right wing splash and had no understanding of libel laws (Levant)
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16. I've forgotten all the libel suits and apologies the National Post got entoiled in but there were many.
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17. More broadly, Levant is part of a larger movement with institutional support - SUN news, attempt at Canadian Fox.
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18. Levant's habitual slipperiness with the truth & disdain for fact not that far from Fox News' pioneering "truthiness"
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19. Instead of thinking of Levant as an outlier and anomaly (as Kay does) better to see him as enmeshed in larger political movement.
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20. The liars & bullshitters are 2 sides of a triangle. Crucial 3rd side is fools: the gulls or marks who believes the liars & bullshitters
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