*sigh* I used to quite respect Ms. Vanstone.  Key on the word "used".  With this new insight to her integrity & willingness to join forces with a con-man, I guess we can now refer to her as "Kellyanne".

Electronic press kits have been around forever, I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is on Ford creating them also, other than, as EPK's were designed to do, they tend to take the editorial decisions away from professional critics and put those tools in the hands of others.    

He just has a better distribution model in place (Facebook, Twitter et alia) than companies have had in the past, and dones't rely on a 'newsroom' editor or reporter acting as the propagator for the information.

This whole debate kind of reminds of people calling "Canada newswire" the Business wire.  If you didn't understand the difference, you shouldn't have been allowed in a newsroom.  Both served a purpose, but very very different ones.



 

McGuinty did the same thing a few elections ago, calling it "Liberal TV." 

Not only fake news, but also old news!

Charlie wrote:

 Vanstone is just playing the part of a news reporter, to shill for Ford.  Nothing more, nothing less, and no worse than the rest of the lies that politicians try to pass off as 'truth'. 

Yup. And, hence, the absolute end of her short career. Very near-sighted. VERY. Who is going to hire her for a REAL reporting gig after this. I guess it's back to being an ever-interrupting board bunny on one of 640's also-ran yakkers. Pity.
 

Chrisphen wrote:

Her reputation is now attached to DoFo, much like Oakley was welded to RoFo. If DoFo fails she is finished in the biz.

             John Oakley is therefore indirectly responsible for the Corus Entertainment shares in my RRSP having gone down the toilet?  

Chrisphen wrote:

Her reputation is now attached to DoFo, much like Oakley was welded to RoFo. If DoFo fails she is finished in the biz.

Her "flexible" integrity has now been displayed for all to see. 

Doesn't matter if DoFo wins or loses; her willingness to shill for a con-man has been set. 

For fuck sake, It's a job, the integrity or lack thereof, imho could also easily be attributed to anyone who works for McGuinty, Wynne, or any politician anywhere on the planet.   Same thing for people who work for certain radio companies that I wouldn't trust nor want to be associated with.  They have bills to pay, and very possibly don't share my opinion of the company or person.

As usual, I love how people hiding behind their fucking pseudonyms are so quick to bravely call out real people.  It's so simple sitting in your underwear in front of the computer monitor to call out people that you assume will never react. 

It's one of the reasons, on the few occasions it's happened, I've gladly given boardhost my go ahead (not that they'd need it with a subpoena) to release IP information of posters to the appropriate authorities, when lawyers start poking and prodding around here.  I'm certainly not going to invest 1c of my money in protecting the 'identity' of some clown who feels he/she answers to nobody.  Reality is, you do.  

Having said that, if I do try to respond to you via e-mail, and discover it's a 'disposable' e-mail address, consider your account nuked.  Either update it with real contact information, or go away.  Simple choices.

Closing this thread because it's sliding into stupid name calling and the usual political bullshit that I honestly don't have time or interest in.

For today, it's just the thread that's being closed, but I'm very close to walking from the entire thing.  The majority of posters are so predictable I could write their stuff for them, and their multiple personalities.