The Media
I really don't want to become an anti-MSM blogger but I have to comment - belatedly because I'm still stewing over it - on the way the dutiful little puppies attended the PM's press conference. Did they not stop and think that they could have boycotted it?! There he was, smirking and self-satisfied, relishing his taming of the great and powerful media and then simply using them to get out his latest machiavellian message: "I'm going to make a throne speech and then everyone has to get out of the way and let the god do his thing." Nobody asked, "but isn't parliament part of our political process, isn't that a bit dictatorial?", nobody asked if he still follows his mentor Flanagan's every word and if so, does he think that's what Canadians want. No they just all went off muttering about how relaxed he was and did that mean that an election was imminent.
My biggest problem with the media is that they have become the spin. They don't seem to know what's really going on and they take no responsibility for what they say. Rex Murphy waxing eloquent about Dion after he was elected then ripping him to shreds a year later - how can a person claim any credibility when he simply says what is in the wind today and contradicts it tomorrow?
Let us never forget that these are the people who thought a man in a jumpsuit on a seadoo could win the hearts of Canadians.
My apologies to those journalists who are responsible and don't allow their need for air time to overwhelm their integrity.
My biggest problem with the media is that they have become the spin. They don't seem to know what's really going on and they take no responsibility for what they say. Rex Murphy waxing eloquent about Dion after he was elected then ripping him to shreds a year later - how can a person claim any credibility when he simply says what is in the wind today and contradicts it tomorrow?
Let us never forget that these are the people who thought a man in a jumpsuit on a seadoo could win the hearts of Canadians.
My apologies to those journalists who are responsible and don't allow their need for air time to overwhelm their integrity.
posted by Susan at 7:13 AM
5 Comments:
Yes...the Media should have boycotted the sitting Prome Minister of the country....and yesterday during Dion's conference what di the media not ask:
Why did you sned the troops to Afghanistant and then Kanadahar, and now clain do not know what their objectives are?
Stephane why did you not get it done when you were the environment minister?
Stephane, why is it that the people that know you best, those in your home province like you the least?
Yes....the MSM has been pretty easy on this directionless leader and party...it is easy to be against something when you have no plan or direction....but yes...the MSM in the Ottawa corrider should boycott the sitting prime minister.
Liberal spin....
The press should have boycotted the PM's press conference?? Wow!!
Harper, like Chretien, like Mulroney and like Trudeau is attempting to manipulate the press, and, doing it very well, the good ones do that. Whining about the press doing what they're paid to do is really self defeating, take a look at the Tory Blogs blaming the MSM for a McGuinty majority...it aint the press...its the message the party puts out.
The press should have boycotted the PM's press conference?!?
The media is supposed to report the news, not make it. I think if they turned to gonzo journalism the public would look at them with disdain.
You really should think a little deaper before posting such tripe.
Last time I looked the government did not own the media, so they can do whatever they bloody well please.
The current PM decided he didn't want to talk to them for over a year, why do they have to listen to him now?
And since when is parroting the PMO bulls.. for the day, reporting news?
What's wrong with being anti-MMS?
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