Orwell Watch: The Great Canadian "Ostrich Cull"

The world may be losing its mind, but it's at least generously inviting us to watch - Matt Taibbi

• On Friday, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation anchor Andrew Nichols tossed to correspondent Caroline Barghout in Edgewood, British Columbia for one of the most uncomfortable on-site TV reports ever. 
• Barghout spends an agonizing minute and six seconds searching for creative ways to deliver a story about the Canadian government gunning down 330 ostriches without using key words like “kill” or “dead.”...