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With no throne speech scheduled, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark will instead make a 90-minute appearance on the Vancouver radio station where she used to work.
“In place of a formal Throne Speech, the Premier will be appearing on CKNW’s Bill Good Show to outline the government’s agenda for the spring session,” said an email to press gallery members from Clark’s deputy press secretary and communications officer Rebecca Scott.
The premier will give a scrum to other media who are welcome to watch the interview at the CKNW studio, the message said. The appearance is scheduled for 8:30 10:00 a.m. on Feb. 13. The spring session of the legislature will open Feb. 14.
Look.
I raised this before, back when Keith Baldrey was given an ‘exclusive’ on the decision by Ms. Clark not to go to the people last fall.
And I was shouted down by the so-called Pros in The Media.
So, given that this is even worse, I’ll raise the point again…..
Which is, to paraphrase Brian Mulroney speaking to John Turner:
“Mr. Good, you could have said no, sir.”
Because Ms. Clark is clearly NOT playing to we the people with this codswallop.
Instead, she is playing to those who really can be played by letting them know that it is she who will decide how much ice time they will get if they play by her rules.
And the ‘they’ Ms. Clark is playing for suckers are the lapdog members of the Lotuslandian Media who don’t have the balls and/or the integrity to say they are not for sale for a cheap, useless ‘scoop’ and that, more importantly, they don’t give a hoot-heckfire about insider access and easy information that, in the end, is almost always worth less than zero.
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Now.
Given that we know that, based on repeat past-performance, that Mr. Good is a serial water-carrier for the Clark/Campbell government we can only surmise that, even if it wasn’t his former producer and TeeVee News Anchor partner helping to set this up, he would never say no.
So.
What if, say, no one from the proMedia were to show up for the post-propaganda ‘scrum’ availability mentioned above?
Wouldn’t that eventually shut down the wurlitzer and end Ms. Clark, and her coterie’s, ‘game’?
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