ahh the permanence of the internet...

well, sometimes it takes a spot of anger to be an effective opposition.  I mean, no one would read it if it said the Monctonryhmes-honeypot, now would they?  Just make it worthwhile, witty and thoughtful for all, including the newspaper reps.  And no unsubstantiated rhetoric.

On the topic of misleading news, I read through the Afghan Detainees stories this morning in a few different papers.  I started with the Star, and it was pretty triumphant about Harper's contempt.  Chantal Hebert is someone I enjoy reading.  Then I check the Globe&Mail (mop&pail, if we're being sarcastic) and it too was celebrating.  (surprisingly! have they changed their mostly conservative tune, or would they have been more comfortably progressive conservative?)

The Ottawa Citizen & Calgary Herald both had the same story/same phrasing - I didn't pick that up immediately, but I'm assuming the articles are the same.  Harper's name not mentioned once, lots of talk of protecting the armed forces & country from harm caused by loose-lipped MP's. 

Sometimes, we just need the plain facts - but do plain facts exist outside of projection, context, vision?

I haven't yet read the paper. I'll have to get busy.

I looked at a few different papers as well. Interestingly, the Vancouver Sun had it buried on their website, not even front page news, and with similar language as described in Calgary Herald et al.  Some commentators this morning seemed to imply that the opposition was just as bad as Harper's conservatives, something about petty bickering and unparliamentary behaviour. Perhaps this is another topic, but it seems to me it is Harper's governments who has most likely broken international law, done everything possible to prevent anyone from seeing the information and even prorogued parliament to avoid the issue. The opposition parties are doing EXACTLY what we need them to be doing. I agree that the atmosphere in Ottawa is pretty toxic but I think most of it has to do with the controlling, autocratic, secretiive and hypocritical way the Harper conservatives have conducted themselves. Mostly I try to believe it's all a house of cards that will come crashing down around Harper's ears but in my worst nightmares I fear what our country will become if they ever won a majority.

All the anglo papers in NB are owned by the same family. We get very tightly controlled and slanted news and editorials.

graeme

In MIssissauga, we have a very pro-Conservative/pro-Harper paper, and they hate Dalton McGuinty too.  Everything he does is labelled like money down the drain.  In essence, the Miss News considers everything NICE to be bad for the country, and everything money-grubbing to be fantastic.  They don't sugar-coat it either.  Well, not that I can see, but I"m pretty sensitive.

It is an interesting foil to the Robin Hood Toronto Star, and bad for my blood pressure when reading one after the other.

This is the Star's headline on Harper/Afghan docs today:  "Harper Digs In Over Afghan Documents".

That sort of thing is why I like writing the blog. I've done three on why New Brunswick has standardized testing for schools (like most other provinces), why it's a terrible idea -and next I'll take a look at the real reason why governments adopt it. This is fun.