Via Maz2 who comments that “If you thought the Press was ticked before……imagine what this is going to do to them.”
Financial woes force Press Club to go dry. An anonymous comment;
I was a member. Back when it was the National men’s Press Club. We changed the name then. Charles Lynch joked that if our wives found out there were women journalists they’d never let us come back. Most of you and most Canadians can never understand the importantce of that second floor bar in the National Press building on Wellington street….Peter Stursburg, the aforementioned Lynch, Ron Collister, Lowell green Paul Akehurst, George Bain, Peter Riley, Max Keeping, Ernie Calcutt, Don Leger, and about 5,000 others I am sure graced those hallowed portals for a game of shuffleboard and a beer or two. Tim Rafe, the guy who yelled “How far would you go?” to Trudeau. One night arguing over handgun legislation, Tim put his fist through the window next to his seat.
It all changed . The news bureaux faded into huge TOronto run remote control zombies… the Parliamentary press Gallery is peopled by dirt poor freelancers and bearded Marxists now, and the black and white pictures upon the walls of those who have gone before are only dimly remembered by the new breed of Ryerson dropouts. Time was, the very best of Journalists didn’t have a degree… now they have to be shaped and molded before they’re allowed to write. what bull crap.In the Gallery is a stone fireplace with the words carved: “…and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” …-
“If you thought the Press was ticked before……imagine what this is going to do to them.”
I figure 50% of Muslim extremism is due to the fact that they don’t drink enough booze.
In the last fifteen years, the Press Club was taken over by flaks and lobbyists. Night sittings of Parliament had ended, so the Hill was empty at night. Hy’s had scooped up the business that was left. This was hardly unexpected.
It will be a new day indeed….I actually feel for the losers. Well maybe they can focus on competence instead of aping the behaviour of characters fro bygone days!
“….dirt poor freelancers and bearded Marxists ..” . Get you a double for that buddy .
There’s something that bothers me about what Anonymous wrote. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but it has something to do with bowing to the robes of some ancient now-lost media priesthood. Colour me skeptical: I think any rendering of some sort of historic non-partisan “just the facts ma’am” media is a myth.
OT but I hope Kate could have some fun with this. “300 m Banana over texas” Critics don’t like the idea, really?!? “Voted on by his peers” now that takes the cake.
Don’t want to get caught in the filter check out CTV.ca for the story. CPC has their next area for funding cuts.
Hey Wood Spider, they probably didn’t count on the banana being shot down either.
If the Canada Council for the Arts wants to save some money, I’ll send a banana over Texas at half the million they plan to spend on this Quebecer. Hell, with enough helium balloons and a lawn chair from Walmart I could send that “artist” and his yellow banana floating over the Republic of Texas. I just hope Dick Cheney isn’t hunting at the same time.
What kind of press are we talking about here anyways? I didn’t know that garlic has it’s own club?
Thanks posting my comments Kate.
Just for the record, Maz2’s comment, “If you thought the Press was ticked before……imagine what this is going to do to them.” was actually mine… he just cut and paste. (glad he linked to the source though)
Here’s both my quotes that Maz2 posted…
“If you thought the Press was ticked before…
imagine what this is going to do to them.
Not only are they cut off from the PMO, but now they’re cut off from the booze. Watch for even angrier stories from hereon in.
That is, of course, until the election… the spoils of war will go to the campaign that has the best in-flight bar!”
Found the link at bloggingtories.ca; c/p’d it over here on the other thread, with the url.
The late Charles Lynch is mentioned in the anonymous
comment.
Lynch’s memoirs are classics; his “A Funny Way to Run a Country” is hilarious.
Lynch was with Trudeau on his “epic three-week tour of the Far East in 1983”. Lynch said that Trudeau just wanted to get out of the country. The unemployment rate was 12% “and the economy was going to the pits”.
Lynch and the boys made up a song:
“In the fleshpots of Bankok,
We drank whiskey by the crock,
While he worked his bleeding ass off,
Selling wheat around the clock!”
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I have said it before and still say it, without word processors and spellcheckers all these “so called Journalists” including CBC idiots would be sweeping floors