Cross-Border Noises of Interest

[dewline]

One of the columnists I follow regularly is Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star.

This morning I read something fairly interesting posted to her blog on the Civitas meeting the other week.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Back to comics discussion in a little while...

Comments

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

I'm in full support of what Antonia did.

The behind closed doors shit is where all the real decisions get made. And they are usually behind closed doors because they know the public won't agree with it. So they have to figure out ways of getting it done anyways and that involves secrecy.

Fuck that is what I say.

I also think it's very shitty that "journalists" regularly participate in that stuff and keep it quiet.

[realtegan.livejournal.com]

Any "journalist" who doesn't report this kind of stuff isn't a journalist, he or she is a propagandist who doesn't have an ounce of moral standing in the world.

That a real journalist was able to sit outside the room and gather that sort of information, politely declining invitations to enter the room, is something that you won't be seeing again.

If the Canadian scumbags are anything like the US scumbags, the real journalists will be completely shut out of such things in the future. To the detriment of the entire nation.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Well, there have been linkages documented. I'm not certain that the documenters are entirely impartial -- as if I am??? -- but here's one such site (http://harperstiestousa.org/) for anyone interested.

I doubt that the real journalists will let themselves be completely shut out. Mr. Harper's been fighting to institute White House-style press conference rules over the objections of the Parliamentary Press Gallery for some weeks now, and the Gallery are giving as good as they're getting. I recommend a dig through Antonia's archives for some of the stories about that dispute.