21 Replies to “There in No Joy In Mediaville Today”

  1. Canada! Present a journalism award for reporting on something determined to be fiction. Maybe its pretty much all fiction.

  2. So McGregor and Maher got awards for reporting on a story that might have been huge but wasn’t.

  4. Beat me to the punch. Good job!
    It has proven to be fiction and an glowing example of jumping to conclusions based on demonizing somebody to confirm your prejudices.

  5. They thought they were Woodward and Bernstein but they wound up being Jason Blair. Do they have to give their awards back now?
    The government should sue Lead Now for the waste of time and money spent on this investigation. From the report:
    The Commissioner received over 40,000 general communications and complaints about “robocalls.” Most were from people who said they had not actually received an inappropriate call, but wished to express their concern that these kinds of calls had taken place. In all, 39,350 were received via an online form sponsored by an organization called Leadnow. Electors were encouraged by Leadnow to complete the form (which had a prefilled message that could be revised) and send it to a number of intended recipients, including the Commissioner. The vast majority of those 39,350 communications seemed to simply reproduce the form’s original wording.

  6. That pic of Glenn McGregor epitomizes the arrogance and holier-than-thou-ness of the man.
    Maher and McG pounded on this story for so long, wrote more articles on it than were written about the Normandy Invasion in WW2, and they did so not knowing or caring if any of it was true.
    Journalists are very aware that “a lie,if repeated often enough,becomes the truth”,and that’s all they were concerned with. The CPC,in the mind of the LIV,is permanently smeared with this “scandal”.
    And THAT was the whole intent all along.
    btw, are there really people in this world that are so stupid they’d not vote because a “robocall” told them their polling station had been changed?

  7. “The CPC,in the mind of the LIV,is permanently smeared with this “scandal”.”
    Real LIVs wouldn’t even know there was a scandal.
    By-the-bye, only a LIV who doesn’t know Shiite from Shinola would go to the wrong polling station.
    Care enough to vote? Then spend 5 minutes out of a month finding out where to do it.
    McGregor and Maher are only influencing the smug-factor of already-decideds, they surely are not influencing genuine LIVs.
    Election campaigns are run by election wonks whose job it is to get the politician elected. Those same politicians have little to do with the actual details of everyday campaigning other than to set general ethical guidelines for their employed wonks. During an election the politicians are the sausage, not the sausage factory.
    Lastly, disrupting the voter turnout of the competition is a Leftist tactic. It was done here in Alberta by the PCs last time around(using robocalls) and it was done by the IRS in the U.S. in 2012. It’s the Left that wants to subvert democracy here while singing their admiration for the one-party ‘efficiency’ of Communist China.

  8. So the only proven robo-call miscreant was a Liberal. Michael Sona’s trial is coming soon and it looks like it might be falling apart. He was hung out to dry by the Conservatives, apparently confessing to people he didn’t know in Canada while vacationing in Aruba or something like that. I wonder if this is one that gets dropped the day before the trial to save the prosecutor from embarrassment.

  9. Where is the story about Sun News bumboy Kinsella taking $600 thousand from Ontario taxpayers.

  10. “btw, are there really people in this world that are so stupid they’d not vote because a “robocall” told them their polling station had been changed?”
    Haven’t been to Ontario lately have you Don? The level of stupid here is rather overwhelming.

  11. When all you have is a seething, burning, acid hatred of all things Stephen Harper you end up as the asswipes of Canadian journalism.
    And that is saying something because that competition is loaded with challenging competitors.

  12. Worse — they did not do any real investigating, they just pried an occasional tidbit from elections Canada — then rehashed existing information over and over again. I was flabbergasted when this shallow exercise got a journalism award. Makes journalists look silly.

  13. In fairness, the Ottawa Citizen must run this story on its front Page above the fold — every other robocall story got that billing.It was enough for me to drop the paper. I do not even bother buying the Saturday Citizen now.

  15. Dos that mean these scandal mongers have to give the award back?
    The only lamentable part of the robocall “story?” is there is no criminal code offence for scandal mongering, public disinformation, or rumor racketeering.
    pfft – my dog has a higher quality “out put” than your average MSM journo.

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  17. 1. Macgregor and partner were fed the info they reported by leakers inside EC. That is undeniable. That publication gave EC cover to mount an investigation.
    That investigation – led by EC no less – couldn’t find anything approaching evidence worthy of bringing charges and it lasted two and a half years (they couldn’t milk it any further)
    2. The side payments to mr Kinsella et al in Ontario – now there’s something worthy of some real investigative reporting and some tough questions. Now that mr macgregor and partner have nothing to do they could look into it perhaps.

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