There’s a big difference between objectivity and / or impartiality on the one hand, and mindless, cringing devotion to “balance” on the other.
The news out of Ottawa sees two competing storylines fighting for prominence: the Vikileaks tweets and the dirty-trick phone calls.
If you’ll permit me one observation: tweeting embarrassing personal details from court records that are publicly available to anyone with elementary research skills is one thing. A sustained and systematic campaign to disenfranchise voters because you think they’ll support your opponents is something else entirely. Straight out of the GOP playbook, in fact.
More prosaically: social media are legal. Electoral fraud: probably not.
#Vikileaks shouldn’t be this week’s #ShinyObject in #cdnpoli Focus must stay on#ElectoralFraud
— Sol Chrom (@sol_chrom) February 28, 2012
Just in case it isn’t obvious.
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