A column by Rawlco talk show host John Gormley in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix.
23 Replies to “Bloggers And The Election”
The London Free Press;
Written by; Dan Brown
Will blogging become a profession in 2006?
Bloggers being hired to break news stories.
Challenge to bloggers.Break this story. Who who who? 18 whos. Who will be Horton? (H/T Dr. Seuss).
18 ridings + 10 candidates> Who? Which? Challenge is out there. Who will discover the names & post them??? >>>
Hansard:
For example, to which Liberal Party candidates did Marc-Yvan C�t�, who was himself expelled from the Liberal Party of Canada, distribute tens of thousands of dollars in envelopes which he slid into the pockets of these candidates? We know how that happened: it was Brault to Corriveau, to B�liveau, to C�t�. You would think it was a hockey game. And C�t� shoots and scores. In this case, we would like to know where C�t� was aiming. He told us that 18 ridings had received money, along with 10 candidates. If they do not want to give us the names of the guilty, they should at least give us the names of the innocent. >> Gilles Duceppe>> http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/157_2005-11-24/han157_1150-E.htm
Kate
Thanks for being.
Gormley said: “Although these political stories spent days in the blogosphere, they only became “news” in the conventional sense when the traditional media picked them up from blogs and began forcing reaction from a wider public.”
The truth of the matter is the MSM didn’t do anything until the blogosphere forced them off their collective asses.
Kinda funny how MSM tries to marginalize people who express opinions beyond their controlled public filters.
The blogs are doing the job that the MSM is not.
This is the biggest reason the MSM hates us, we make them look like the inconsequential little dolts that they are.
Well kate, im glad to see the author mentions SDA as his favorite site.
Shows his good taste.
As for myself, i became aquainted with SDA just before Christmas, and wouldnt miss it.
Yesterday i couldnt load SDA for a couple of hours and i almost had a fit.
I have become an addict.
Kate, I discovered your blog after Gormley talked about it on his call-in show back in November. Your posts are always insightful. Keep up the great work!
I think the most gratifying point of the blogosphere is the fact that the party spin doctors do not have the ability to control the message that “Joe and Mary six pack” are sending out or receiving. This is a tool that can definitely help level the playing field when it comes to partisan reporting in the MSM..
I found your blog over a year ago when Gormley talked about your site on his show.
Wonder of wonders. Gormley actually said something worth reading.
He’s right about several things: blogs can’t be spun or manipulated and they are transparent about their biases. Neither can be said about traditional media.
Blogs are what the traditional media should be – the watchdogs of democracy.
Spooky: “blogs can’t be spun or manipulated and they are transparent about their biases”
Well I hate to crash this group hug about blogs, but if anything blogs are the pinnacle of spun and manipulated thoughts. (True on transparent bias though.)
It is due to the nature of the beast. But the thing we pin our hope on is the character of the blogger.
Meaning he or she has a concience and will do what is right to get the facts and tips from various sources – presumably from those who don’t have an alterior motive or 15 minutes of fame on their minds.
Once certain blogs reach a point of influence of the general public, watch for pressure from say the CRTC or heck even CSIS might get involved: something about ‘national security’.
All the CRTC has to do is lean on the ISP’s who host these blogs. Sounds far fetched? Mark my words the time will come if we become too much a burr in the government’s corrupt butts. (Hint: RCMP raid on an Ottawa reporter.)
Again this falls back on the bloggers moral character – do I report the right thing or do I speak what is right and even face jail? (Hint: Gormey black outs.)
So far, this blog and a few others are recommended daily reading and I hope they keep up the good work.
cheers
Tom (who doesn’t have a blog)
To quote Mr. Winston Chirchill re: the fate of Canada ” Never have so many owed to much to so few” – it is very appropriate here. The RCA fighter pilots and their crews risked their lives for freedom; the Conservative bloggers in this country risk their economic survival for freedom. People like Kate Angry, Dust my broom and Shotgun have posted ‘forbidden’ facts and opinions for the rest of us to read. If we get rid of the albatross (Liberano/ND tyranny) around our collective necks, it will be because Kate and her courageous ilk chose to expose the governing dictator and his minnions for the lying, stealing scum they have turned out to be – I know, from experience, how the mighty “rulers” in the Lib/N.D. outfits economically freeze out individuals who dare to speak up against the almighty rulers and the followers of the same. Thank-you Kate, from the bottom of my heart.
I had predicted the Blogoshere would be instrumental in keeping the Canadian MSM relatively civil/balanced in this election..they have been but I don’t know if there is any evidence to prove it was the Bloggers watching them which did this.
On the matter of the 3 scsandal broken during the election I thin it was actually a Blogosphere-MSM tag team effort ( Angry/Bourque/Wells)that put the story out there.
One thing is for sure the quantity and quality of Canada’s bloggers has legitimized the alternative media….I just hope the Blogospere can resist the wide scale sell-out the MSM has undergone.
Kate, your becoming the Charles Johnson of Canada.
Yeeeeehaaaa!
face the future. the internet is king. long live the blogs.
WLM Redux: to be fair it was Buckets that got the ball rolling and Wells picked it up from him.
Cheers,
lance
Many salient points are being made regarding the blogging community on this comment segment. Sadly we are far from correcting the bias and power the Corporate media conglomerates wield in favour of the corrupt Liberal government in Canada. Hopefully before this election is concluded the Canadian electorate will realize the empathy that exists between the few media conglomerates and the power brokers who control the financial markets and the current Liberal government..
I am not talking conspiracy here just simple greed that exists in these institutions of power that enables the corruption in governments to exist. And all the while we sleep!
Yes, the internet may well have removed the enabling ability of MSM to allow malfeasance in Canada’s governance.
Jema54, actually, Churchill said “Never have so few given so much to so many”.
I like to borrow from that phrase and say the following:
“Never have so few taken so much from so many in exchange for so little”
To describe the Liberal Party of Canada.
When one has access to so many reliable, scrupulous blogs like this one here, why would anyone bother to buy a newspaper or watch the news on TV? Just scan the MSM news websites and then go on to the blogs… you’ll be far better informed than you used to be when all you had was the paper and the 10 or 11 o’clock newscasts and Don Newman of “Politics” (I really don’t bother with that show anymore and have found Mike Duffy boring since he quit giving us juicy scoops and started giving Liberals stupid softball questions).
I can’t believe I’m part of the new media myself, with a blog of my own. Doesn’t cost me any more than my broadband connection and the payments on my PC. And I can look like hell and it doesn’t matter. This is great!
Power to the people!
Canadian Sentinel.
In future please get your quots right, Sir Winston never said anything of the kind. I know I was there.
Regards!
Lofty W
Canadian Sentinel.
In future please get your quots right, Sir Winston never said anything of the kind. I know I was there.
Regards!
Lofty W
Never have so many understood so little about so much.
– James Burke
Blogs like Kate’s are turning that around.
—
Kate, did you hear CKOM’s resident socialist cryptographer Murray Wood’s editorialette this 5pm. An obvious rebuttal to Gormley’s SP special.
He gets into another one of his Mike Brady family sit-downs and warns that this story => http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/149435.php is libelous. Am I missing something here or is he refering to something you wrote?
Mike Brady paraphrased: “Beware you bloggers who smear the good names of men like upstanding Saskatchewanian Donald Black lest you be charged with libel ! Grrr.”
“Now go ask Alice if we can stick our forks into the meatloaf yet…”
Lofty W., are you absolutely certain Churchill never said the following:
“Never have so few given so much to so many”?
Perhaps you read my above comment a bit too quickly and saw the other thing, which I made up as a takeoff of the one immediately above this here paragraph.
Canadian Sentinel: I don’t mean to split hairs but I typed my quote incorrectly also; it should read ” Never have so many owed so much to so few”. To say that the RAF boys “gave’ their lives would be an insult to their courage – those flyers risked their lives for themselves – where would the flyers,themselves, have landed without their freedom? – and their countrymen. The RAF had no intention of loosing that battle – My mom was there too, Lofty, she said she did not worry about those brave young men in the flying machines loosing, she said the whole country was behind them 100% – maybe that endorsment in their abilities gave the flyers courage, conviction and endurance.
The London Free Press;
Written by; Dan Brown
Will blogging become a profession in 2006?
Bloggers being hired to break news stories.
Challenge to bloggers.Break this story. Who who who? 18 whos. Who will be Horton? (H/T Dr. Seuss).
18 ridings + 10 candidates> Who? Which? Challenge is out there. Who will discover the names & post them??? >>>
Hansard:
For example, to which Liberal Party candidates did Marc-Yvan C�t�, who was himself expelled from the Liberal Party of Canada, distribute tens of thousands of dollars in envelopes which he slid into the pockets of these candidates? We know how that happened: it was Brault to Corriveau, to B�liveau, to C�t�. You would think it was a hockey game. And C�t� shoots and scores. In this case, we would like to know where C�t� was aiming. He told us that 18 ridings had received money, along with 10 candidates. If they do not want to give us the names of the guilty, they should at least give us the names of the innocent. >> Gilles Duceppe>>
http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/157_2005-11-24/han157_1150-E.htm
Kate
Thanks for being.
Gormley said: “Although these political stories spent days in the blogosphere, they only became “news” in the conventional sense when the traditional media picked them up from blogs and began forcing reaction from a wider public.”
The truth of the matter is the MSM didn’t do anything until the blogosphere forced them off their collective asses.
Kinda funny how MSM tries to marginalize people who express opinions beyond their controlled public filters.
The blogs are doing the job that the MSM is not.
This is the biggest reason the MSM hates us, we make them look like the inconsequential little dolts that they are.
Well kate, im glad to see the author mentions SDA as his favorite site.
Shows his good taste.
As for myself, i became aquainted with SDA just before Christmas, and wouldnt miss it.
Yesterday i couldnt load SDA for a couple of hours and i almost had a fit.
I have become an addict.
Kate, I discovered your blog after Gormley talked about it on his call-in show back in November. Your posts are always insightful. Keep up the great work!
I think the most gratifying point of the blogosphere is the fact that the party spin doctors do not have the ability to control the message that “Joe and Mary six pack” are sending out or receiving. This is a tool that can definitely help level the playing field when it comes to partisan reporting in the MSM..
I found your blog over a year ago when Gormley talked about your site on his show.
Wonder of wonders. Gormley actually said something worth reading.
He’s right about several things: blogs can’t be spun or manipulated and they are transparent about their biases. Neither can be said about traditional media.
Blogs are what the traditional media should be – the watchdogs of democracy.
Spooky: “blogs can’t be spun or manipulated and they are transparent about their biases”
Well I hate to crash this group hug about blogs, but if anything blogs are the pinnacle of spun and manipulated thoughts. (True on transparent bias though.)
It is due to the nature of the beast. But the thing we pin our hope on is the character of the blogger.
Meaning he or she has a concience and will do what is right to get the facts and tips from various sources – presumably from those who don’t have an alterior motive or 15 minutes of fame on their minds.
Once certain blogs reach a point of influence of the general public, watch for pressure from say the CRTC or heck even CSIS might get involved: something about ‘national security’.
All the CRTC has to do is lean on the ISP’s who host these blogs. Sounds far fetched? Mark my words the time will come if we become too much a burr in the government’s corrupt butts. (Hint: RCMP raid on an Ottawa reporter.)
Again this falls back on the bloggers moral character – do I report the right thing or do I speak what is right and even face jail? (Hint: Gormey black outs.)
So far, this blog and a few others are recommended daily reading and I hope they keep up the good work.
cheers
Tom (who doesn’t have a blog)
To quote Mr. Winston Chirchill re: the fate of Canada ” Never have so many owed to much to so few” – it is very appropriate here. The RCA fighter pilots and their crews risked their lives for freedom; the Conservative bloggers in this country risk their economic survival for freedom. People like Kate Angry, Dust my broom and Shotgun have posted ‘forbidden’ facts and opinions for the rest of us to read. If we get rid of the albatross (Liberano/ND tyranny) around our collective necks, it will be because Kate and her courageous ilk chose to expose the governing dictator and his minnions for the lying, stealing scum they have turned out to be – I know, from experience, how the mighty “rulers” in the Lib/N.D. outfits economically freeze out individuals who dare to speak up against the almighty rulers and the followers of the same. Thank-you Kate, from the bottom of my heart.
I had predicted the Blogoshere would be instrumental in keeping the Canadian MSM relatively civil/balanced in this election..they have been but I don’t know if there is any evidence to prove it was the Bloggers watching them which did this.
On the matter of the 3 scsandal broken during the election I thin it was actually a Blogosphere-MSM tag team effort ( Angry/Bourque/Wells)that put the story out there.
One thing is for sure the quantity and quality of Canada’s bloggers has legitimized the alternative media….I just hope the Blogospere can resist the wide scale sell-out the MSM has undergone.
Kate, your becoming the Charles Johnson of Canada.
Yeeeeehaaaa!
face the future. the internet is king. long live the blogs.
WLM Redux: to be fair it was Buckets that got the ball rolling and Wells picked it up from him.
Cheers,
lance
Many salient points are being made regarding the blogging community on this comment segment. Sadly we are far from correcting the bias and power the Corporate media conglomerates wield in favour of the corrupt Liberal government in Canada. Hopefully before this election is concluded the Canadian electorate will realize the empathy that exists between the few media conglomerates and the power brokers who control the financial markets and the current Liberal government..
I am not talking conspiracy here just simple greed that exists in these institutions of power that enables the corruption in governments to exist. And all the while we sleep!
Yes, the internet may well have removed the enabling ability of MSM to allow malfeasance in Canada’s governance.
Jema54, actually, Churchill said “Never have so few given so much to so many”.
I like to borrow from that phrase and say the following:
“Never have so few taken so much from so many in exchange for so little”
To describe the Liberal Party of Canada.
When one has access to so many reliable, scrupulous blogs like this one here, why would anyone bother to buy a newspaper or watch the news on TV? Just scan the MSM news websites and then go on to the blogs… you’ll be far better informed than you used to be when all you had was the paper and the 10 or 11 o’clock newscasts and Don Newman of “Politics” (I really don’t bother with that show anymore and have found Mike Duffy boring since he quit giving us juicy scoops and started giving Liberals stupid softball questions).
I can’t believe I’m part of the new media myself, with a blog of my own. Doesn’t cost me any more than my broadband connection and the payments on my PC. And I can look like hell and it doesn’t matter. This is great!
Power to the people!
Canadian Sentinel.
In future please get your quots right, Sir Winston never said anything of the kind. I know I was there.
Regards!
Lofty W
Canadian Sentinel.
In future please get your quots right, Sir Winston never said anything of the kind. I know I was there.
Regards!
Lofty W
Never have so many understood so little about so much.
– James Burke
Blogs like Kate’s are turning that around.
—
Kate, did you hear CKOM’s resident socialist cryptographer Murray Wood’s editorialette this 5pm. An obvious rebuttal to Gormley’s SP special.
He gets into another one of his Mike Brady family sit-downs and warns that this story => http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/149435.php is libelous. Am I missing something here or is he refering to something you wrote?
Mike Brady paraphrased: “Beware you bloggers who smear the good names of men like upstanding Saskatchewanian Donald Black lest you be charged with libel ! Grrr.”
“Now go ask Alice if we can stick our forks into the meatloaf yet…”
Lofty W., are you absolutely certain Churchill never said the following:
“Never have so few given so much to so many”?
Perhaps you read my above comment a bit too quickly and saw the other thing, which I made up as a takeoff of the one immediately above this here paragraph.
Canadian Sentinel: I don’t mean to split hairs but I typed my quote incorrectly also; it should read ” Never have so many owed so much to so few”. To say that the RAF boys “gave’ their lives would be an insult to their courage – those flyers risked their lives for themselves – where would the flyers,themselves, have landed without their freedom? – and their countrymen. The RAF had no intention of loosing that battle – My mom was there too, Lofty, she said she did not worry about those brave young men in the flying machines loosing, she said the whole country was behind them 100% – maybe that endorsment in their abilities gave the flyers courage, conviction and endurance.