Canada's media are self-involved pri madonnas who pretend to be objective while simultaneously reporting with a shameless subjective bias, a trait often highlighted in these pages. The amount of harrumphs from journalist groups on this story is interesting in the context of global press-freedom today, especially in countries like Turkey where the press has been beaten, jailed, and expropriated into submission but rarely generates any attention at the Globe, perhaps it's because the political party in charge is run by unapologetic Islamists and are simply governing accordingly.