Media and the Election
The Zerb posts quoting the Western Standard (which is fun in itself):
Reporters on the Martin campaign seemed to become almost consumed with Liberal bungling. They began filing stories speculating that there might be a mole in the Liberal war room deliberately leaking stories to hurt Martin.
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I’ve lost a couple of comments at Zerb’s blog - no fault of hers - they just vanished, and I thought this one was worth keeping,
I suspect what was happening on the Martin campaign was that even the most dedicated of the Liberal press began to realize, to misuse Ms. Stein, “there was no there there”. Last time out they were focused on the mystery which they were sure surrounded Harper, this time they looked deep into the bowels of the Liberal Prime Minister and party and discovered a hollow, empty, shell with a rather unpleasant stench of decay. This they reported. And as the Dumpling spouted increasingly out of touch with reality lies that no one in the home office was buying, they reported that as well.
It was not long before the entire Liberal campaign became a laughingstock. Then, of course, the press, even if they tried. could not miss the fact the “Stephen Harper - REALLY SCARY …. IN CANADA” routine was playing to a diminishing audience. Nor could they miss the fact that when Maude Barlow’s claque of the “Concerned Wymn and Guyly Guys of Canada (or at least the bits you can see from the roof of the Park Plaza where Peggy used to drink)” published their hissy fit no one actually gave a rat’s ass.
The Tories switched the narrative. This was smart. The Liberals couldn’t buy a clue and that was news and reported as such.
When the wheels fall off a campaign it is always news. When the staff slag the parents of Canada, not once, but twice, that’s news. When the RCMP announces and investigation into the possibility of criminal wrongdoing in the Department of Finance, that’s news. When the Prime Minister of the country, apparently off the cuff, announces he is going to trash a fairly critical element of the Constitution, that would be news.
Harper made news by making announcements and keeping those socons locked in the cage at the undisclosed location. The Dumpling had new happen to him. This goes some distance towards explaining who won and who lost.
Written by jay on January 26th, 2006 with
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