Things that raise alarm bells #nlpoli
As it becomes more clear that the two recent murders of Canadian soldiers had less to do with terrorism and more to do with people who are otherwise screwed up,…
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Getting On Point back from No Point #nlpoli
For years, the only public affairs show on television or radio in Newfoundland and Labrador was Issues and Answers. NTV’s Sunday morning staple has long been ponderous and boring and…
Much media ado about not very much #nlpoli
On the face of it, anyone even passingly familiar with political events in Newfoundland and Labrador for the past decade would look with some justifiable scepticism on an announcement from…
Veracity #nlpoli
Not so long ago one of the frequent claims people in the conventional media used to make about “blogsters” was that you couldn’t trust what they wrote because it might…
Nut up or shut up #nlpoli
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…
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.…
VOCM more like Fox and Sun #nlpoli
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Persistence of False Information #nlpoli
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Working stiffs and lazy ones #nlpoli
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…