A reader has asked a very good question – is there a list anywhere of the names of the members of the Ottawa press gallery who walked out on the Harper news conference on Darfur?
I’d appreciate the information, if someone has it to send along or drop into the comments section. The media demands transparency from politicians – Canadians should expect no less from them.
Let’s have the names, and those of their employers.
While we’re on the topic – 75% of callers in an informal poll on John Gormley Live this morning disagreed with the host and believe Harper should tell the OPG to go pound sand. I think the word “crybaby” came up multiple times. The very public pity party the media are holding for each other may be backfiring.
Stephen Taylor;
As I’ve noted before, the press gallery has evolved past its primary role of reporting the news to dictating how the Prime Minister should disseminate information via reporters to the electorate. The Prime Minister refuses to relinquish control over his communications strategy to an unelected and unaccountable body which he has now deemed biased and frankly, that’s his prerogative.
He suggests the Ottawa Press Gallery has more to fear from their impending obsolescence than they do a PM who won’t play by rules designed for a communications age that has long passed them by.
G&M poll
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accused the national media of being biased against him, do you agree?
Yes (57%) 17477 votes
h/t Hans Rupprecht in the comments.
Jama54, said,
I want the Liberano gang hauled into court like the enron crooks so they can be ‘entitled’ to pay us back the $$$ they stole and they can be ‘enabled’ to rot in a jailhouse somewhere. I will help pay for that jailhouse, anytime.
He speaks for me and many others but the pool of names headed for justice seems amazingly small.
A list of Libranos headed to see the judge should be easy for someone like Mark in Ottawa or any of our good researchers to put together. TG