tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post7603413480220286166..comments2023-10-22T09:18:16.885-04:00Comments on Far and Wide: On "Triggering Elections"Steve Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871113039374739208noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-90699098732265263702011-01-05T15:39:36.318-05:002011-01-05T15:39:36.318-05:00Thanks Kirk, but my point is not so much the MSM a...Thanks Kirk, but my point is not so much the MSM adopting the Conservative spin (well with SunNews yes it is , but the others not so much) as sheer laziness. Thanks to cost-cutting, market over-saturation, and the movement to turn news into entertainment, we've got the crappy reporting we have today. <br /><br />All the various media outlets do now is faithfully report the PMO's talking points, then interview a Lib or NDP MP to get the counterpoint, and if you are lucky then the resident political analyst will gloss over the comments to tell us how we should 'feel' about things. There is precious little in real reporting or analysis. Good luck to anyone being called out for outright lying anymore.<br /><br />There are a few bright lights and hold-overs from an earlier generation. For example Andrew Coyne's blogposts during the second prorogation were excellent, and Kady O'Malley never lets anyone's spin get by without presenting the actual facts. However for the most part the MSM are pretty much useless these days.<br /><br />The situation is now so bad that Wikileaks seems to be taking over for what our reporters have not been doing since the 1980's. I'd bet the farm that Wikileaks will find out what our government's role in the Afghan detainee issue was before Iacobucci's parliamentary committee.Tof KWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15756310841374198056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-66888035066945641612011-01-05T14:43:06.531-05:002011-01-05T14:43:06.531-05:00Good post. I'd just like to add that we should...Good post. I'd just like to add that we shouldn't give the Cons. an 'out' of regarding not including the F-35 as part of the next budget cycle as representing any sort of compromise, since acc. to them, Canada wasn't going to start paying for them for at least a couple more years, yet, anyhow (since delivery isn't going to start until 2016).WhigWaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14669496174531262021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-12535548133822675762011-01-05T13:37:08.793-05:002011-01-05T13:37:08.793-05:00T of KW's post sums it up for me.
The media h...T of KW's post sums it up for me.<br /><br />The media has completely adopted the Conservative spin. And it is long established among the media.<br /><br />When the Conservatives started making every bill a confidence measure the media didn't care one bit that legislation was being voted on, not on it's content, but on whether the Liberals were willing to cause an election. <br /><br />This was absurd but for the media the only thing of interest was how the Liberals were being played. Politics over governing and the media cheers politics.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04876442776701189706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-72767165187178187792011-01-05T11:41:22.528-05:002011-01-05T11:41:22.528-05:00If you are the government of the day, if you hold ...If you are the government of the day, if you hold a minority, then it is INCUMBENT on you to form a majority consensus, the inability of which is in and of itself a "trigger". -<br />That sums it all up nicely, would that our politicians and more of our citizens realized that!<br /><br />Democracy requires dialog, please join us at http://democracyunderfire.blogspot.comRuralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-73061276173545820832011-01-05T09:35:07.269-05:002011-01-05T09:35:07.269-05:00If this is the gov't line, then it should be c...If this is the gov't line, then it should be challenged. Period.Steve Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871113039374739208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-44411761147684443782011-01-05T09:19:00.176-05:002011-01-05T09:19:00.176-05:00"...at least if one is giving a fair interpre...<i>"...at least if one is giving a fair interpretation of our Parliamentary democracy and its CURRENT makeup."</i><br /><br />That's a pretty big 'if'. Should our mainstream media-types in fact begin to interpret the Harper government in relation to 400+ years worth of modern Westminster-style Parliamentary government, that would be a first. With few exceptions, our MSM are fat and lazy; and would rather just regurgitate the talking points supplied, rather than do any actual research or proper reporting.<br /><br />In other words, I'd expect them to just publish whatever the PMO says, and for that to go unchallenged.<br /><br />That said, your thoughts here are bang-on Steve. Just wish our media were doing their flippin' jobs.Tof KWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15756310841374198056noreply@blogger.com