Winning Hearts And Minds With The Best Gossip Columnist Money Can Buy… – Progressive Bloggers // Blogues progressistes

Because once you’ve got Jane Taber of CTVBellGlobeEverythingElse Media on your side, how can you lose.

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Here, from 10 days ago, when we predicted that this would all soon come to pass without any real analysis of the photo-op with The Prime (which was one that actually mattered) from which The Preem was clearly and explicitly excluded.

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And, by the way, the fine photog, Mr. Jeff Vinnick, who snapped the picture above of The Preem and The Prime at their semi-secret Timmy’sfest two Thursday’s ago was at that time identified by the VSun’s Palmer as a ‘Liberal Staff Photographer’ and the CBC’s Janyce McGregor as being from the ‘BC Premier’s Office/CP’….. From that, and the fact that the photos were almost immediately posted on the Premier’s Facebook page, we reckoned that the Premier’s office had provided the photos taken by her staff photog, gratis…..However, in The Globe gossip column piece pictured above they identify the good Mr. Vinnick simply as working for the ‘Canadian Press’ (press on to enlarge ‘button’, here)….Interestingly, Mr. Vinnick had a completely unrelated image published in The Globe this very day, Jan 23rd, 2012, and…surprise!….In today’s case the attribution tag says only ‘Jeff Vinnick for The Globe and Mail’ (press on to enlarge ‘button’, here)….Kinda/sort makes you go hmmmmm, does it not?…Then again, why would a media organ that publishes unabashed gossip columns/puff-pieces that they wish to pass off as serious political analyses want to indicate that a photo attached to such an ‘analysis’ was actually snapped by someone allegedly working for the person seeking out such a puff-piece, errr….’analysis’?