The Liberal leadership is not even a couple of weeks old and already reporters are getting inundated with the suggestions from anonymous turd-mongers wondering why they are not covering this angle or that aspect of one candidate The Telegram’s James McLeod wrote a blog post about it on Tuesday, rattling
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Telly exclusive on SNC Lavalin???? #nlpoli
Screaming headline across the top of the front page of the Saturday Telly: SNC-Lavalin shut out of Hydro-Quebec projects And right underneath, the claim that it is a Telegram exclusive. That would be right except for the fact someone else reported it months ago. The problems first surfaced in April,
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VOCM’s newsroom is taking a massive step downward with a headline on the Liberal leadership. On Friday, Dwight Ball stepped down as interim leader. The caucus will decide his replace – officially – at a meeting they’ll hold in a couple of weeks. The entire VO story consists of these
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Inquiring Minds? You don’t want to know. #nlpoli
Denial and evasion, wrote Andrew Coyne last week, are only making worse three political scandals. He’s referring to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and allegations of substance abuse, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Mike Duffy Affair, and former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and a police investigation into McGuinty’ s staff,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Talking Point Politics #nlpoli
The Telegram’s Saturday front page story on Tory efforts to manipulate online polls and comments garnered two equal and opposite reactions over the weekend in that political echo chamber called Twitter. [The story isn’t free. it’s in the online subscriber edition] Some people got into a lather over it. Some
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Did Mulcair really say that? #cdnpoli #nlpoli
According to CBC News, federal opposition leader Thomas Mulcair said that his party would honour a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls project “even if price tag goes up.” But did he actually say that? Not really. For one thing, the quote in the body of the online story appears
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Muskrat Falls Debate (on Twitter) #nlpoli
Over at the Telegram, you’ll find two blog posts that are well worth your time if you want to get more insights into the ongoing discussion about Muskrat Falls. Political reporter James McLeod goes through the tone of the public discussion about the project. Geoff Meeker has a post featuring
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Truth Hurts #nlpoli
For those of us who loved the West Wing, we can look forward to his latest effort, an HBO series about news media called The Newsroom. And we can be sure that it will be a finely crafted and savagely accurate portrayal of the news business. We can be sure
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In an interview on The Current last week, Anthony Germain asked Premier Kathy Dunderdale why she wasn’t trying to sell Muskrat Falls to people in Newfoundland and Labrador as Danny Williams might have. “If we are going to break Quebec’s stranglehold on the province…” suggested Germain, as he cast the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: All the news that fits the frame #nlpoli
With a couple of discussions about the media and how it covers news, no regular readers of the various scribbles in this province would be surprised to find a column on the same subject from the Telegram’s Peter Jackson. Go read it. While you may disagree with Peter from time
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: What makes news? #nlpoli
Sometimes you have to wonder why does one story make the news while another doesn’t. Good example: Jim Bennett’s asinine telephone call to Joan Burke’s constituency office. Telegram blogger Geoff Meeker smacks the local media for covering the story in the way they did: It wasn’t even a valid news
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Origin of Information Species #nlpoli
The Globe and Mail has decided to launch a new website that will give subscribers financial news and opinion and analysis pieces that aren’t available to other readers. The Globe isn’t alone in heading down this road: Publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times have had
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: She hasn’t heard? Part Deux #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale claims she hasn’t heard “any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as we move on.” Truth is there are plenty of arguments against her p…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dunderdale in tweet debate with opposition leader… or was she? #nlpoli
CBC has a story online about a Twitter exchange that supposedly took place between Premier Kathy Dunderdale and opposition leader Yvonne Jones. One small problem: is it really Kathy Dunderdale and Yvonne Jones? Sure the Dunderdale tweets h…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Banging around the echo chamber #nlpoli
Last week’s top post was about media coverage of Jim Bennett’s decision to carry on his law practice – albeit not full-time – while he sits as a member of the legislature: What’s so striking about this is that it is a complete non-sto…
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For some reason, TransCon papers carried a story on newly elected Liberal member of the House of Assembly Jim Bennett and his plan to carry on a law practice while he sits as an opposition member in the legislature. The Telegram even put the thing in …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Politics, polls and news media #nlpoli
For the past 65 years, public opinion polls have been an integral feature of news media reports on politics and elections. The reasons are pretty simple to understand. Most public opinion polls are conducted by professional firms using sci…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Motivation and demotivation #nlpoli #nlvotes
“Complacency is your greatest enemy in an election,” Progressive Conservative Leader Kathy Dunderdale said Sunday. “When it’s hard to motivate people to become engaged to get out and to cast their ballot, then you have a concern about that….
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
NTV and Telelink released the only independent poll of the campaign on Monday and with a week to go in the 2011 general election, things are on track for a historic election. For starters, let’s look at the Telelink party support numbers: PCP 35…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Do debates matter? Part Deux #nlvotes #nlpoli
Last week ended with a wonderful bit of insight into where televised political debates figure into an election campaign. Before you go any farther into this post just stop for a second and think of all the media chatter last week about the debate, wha…
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