Why do they call it "News" Radio?

B.C.'s "News Leader", CKNW radio, is touting a leaked memo from CUPE Local 15 to striking City of Vancouver workers as proof that the union is "cracking down" on its members.

In case you haven't noticed, the frequent use of quotation marks by this page are to point out statements that fall outside the boundaries of common sense or the truth. For example, CKNW is not B.C.'s news leader, CKNW is the leader in collecting and recirculating the fascist vomit of its rabid barking dog audience. Any radio station with a Charles Adler and Christy Clark on the payroll is not a station committed to actual journalism.

Is CUPE "cracking down" on its members? As someone who has been on a number of picket lines in Alberta and British Columbia, this page can report with absolute certainty that the instructions outlined in the memo are as standard picket line protocol as it would be for CUPE to tell its members to wear picket signs reading "On Strike". How stupid do CKNW and the other media outlets stumping for Sam Sullivan and the NPA seriously think the public is? Are we supposed to believe that refraining from physically restraining people or writing letters to the editor are secretive, belligerent tactics forced on CUPE members by their leadership?

The real story is that this strike has entered its seventh week without a violent incident, save those fabricated by City Hall. What the Union is doing in reminding members about picket line protocols is helping them prepare for what now appears is going to be an even longer haul, as the City and their media allies ramp up the potshots, push polls, and puke on the call-in shows, rather than actually negotiate an agreement.