Harper and the Media
November 22, 2006 · By Aaron Unruh
Don Martin (via Shaidle) is spot on. Harper’s China trip should have been a major success. His tougher stance on human rights is more in line with Canadians’ views than the Liberal “Team Canada” approach. And yet the morally-bankrupt Liberal “nuanced” stance is winning all the favourable media reviews. Why? Because the Liberals are actually talking to the media.
Martin said: “No, wait. I know what you’re thinking and this is not another poor-me media rant”
Actually that’s exactly what it is.
Martin is just pissed off that Harper doesn’t kiss his ass like every good little politician is supposed to.
If Martin were actually doing HIS JOB and (gasp) R-E-P-O-R-T-I-N-G then maybe he and his low life, liberally bised, colleagues might be treated with more respect.
Harper KNOWS what the outcome to ANY attempt at cooperation with the press will be. It will be turned against him, so his reaction is not surprising. Fuck the press.
Don Martin is part of the Parliamentary Press Gallery party.
He knows that his influence within that sphere of anti-PMO whiners will diminish if he doesn’t tow the party line.
The PPG and the PMO are warring and Martin has to take his swipe.
Governments will come and go, but the PPG is forever. When was the last time there was a coup in the press gallery?
The problem is that the gallery has placed its complaints first before reporting the facts. It has done this far too often and has overplayed the ME ME, woe is me card.
Canadians aren’t stupid. The egotists in the gallery aren’t so smart.
CBC is leading the gallery charge and dragging columnists like Martin into the vortex.
They have bough in to their own hype… at their own peril.
Apologies, this comment is a little longwinded really longwinded in fact but not as longwinded as this:
http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/2110
cheers