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If you think the news media in Canada doesn't have a say in this election in how it is and can sway votes come October, think again...
This article on Maclean's Magazine this week smacks of U.S. politics. where one side puts the absolute fear of God in you about the other side.
John Geddes and Jason Markusoff write a piece about how Andrew Sheer is dabbling with the far right conservatives, (aka Faith Goldy)...this puts a scare in any centre and left of centre voter as Faith has been known to be a "bit" too and dangerously far right.
Here is the link to the article...
Now your comments, is Canada's news media influence on this upcoming election something to be mindful of?
Are fear tactics amping up in this country among the key political parties?
Do you think it is going to be a nasty election and will the various media mix it up even more?
Comment away!
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The somewhat left leaning Communist Broadcasting Corporation and Red Star have never had anything remotely positive to say about any Provincial or Federal Conservative leader. At the same time, the same thing could be said about the bleed blue Sun newspapers. They are less than pleased about anything a Provincial or Federal Liberal leader attempts to accomplish.
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mace wrote:
The somewhat left leaning Communist Broadcasting Corporation and Red Star have never had anything remotely positive to say about any Provincial or Federal Conservative leader. At the same time, the same thing could be said about the bleed blue Sun newspapers. They are less than pleased about anything a Provincial or Federal Liberal leader attempts to accomplish.
Somewhat?
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I'm sure the $600 million the liberals gave the media will not have any impact on the media's coverage of the election campaign.
The people I know in the media will go out of their way to prove to themselves that the money hasn't affected how they report the news. Maybe you surround yourself with people of lower integrity.
People in the SOWNY region are blessed to have access to numerous print news sources, and should consider not limiting themselves to the one that is distributed free at McDonalds
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I fully expect this to be the nastiest federal election Canada I've lived to see. We're at the point where provincial politics has turned hostile. "You voted for Doug Ford? Jason Kenney? I'm going to cut off all ties to you and brand you all sorts of vitriolic things." That level of insanity is still fringe, but far less so than one would like.
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Macleans was pretty conservative for years under Ken Whyte (who had previously been the National Post's founding editor). It's a bit much to hear people complaining about the "liberal" media when Postmedia (which includes the Sun papers now) owns the most newspapers of any publisher and is the only game in town in many towns and cities and when "talk radio" is almost universally conservative-leaning. Compare newspaper endorsements with the actual vote result and then try to argue that the media (or at least the press) is to the left of the general population.