A revolutionary concept: reporters gathering news

Small Dead Animals expounds on the intellectual and professional indolence of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

A Jim Travers op-ed in the Star considers the underlying sloth of the Ottawa press gallery;

"In diminishing the effectiveness of his press interactions, the Prime Minister is indirectly encouraging reporters to fan out to look elsewhere for news, a radical notion that's not in his interest and will lead to scrutiny no administration can sustain."

Reporters actually going out to get the news? This cannot stand!

So, there we have it - tacit admission by a leading Ottawa journalist that the majority of his peers have behaved as lazy, spoon-fed agents of the Liberal party. One would think that such a revelation would be worthy of a column of journalistic self-examination, or at least a direct acknowledgment that accusations of pro-Liberal bias have foundation. Instead, he predictably issues yet another "warning" from media to the Harper government...

The Other Sites of Interest - Autres Sites D'Intérêt section of the Links page on the Press Gallery's website could use a little updating. It still lists the Canadian Alliance and the PC Party of Canada. It does not list the Conservative Party of Canada.

Rather along the lines of the point Kate McMillan is making, don't you think?

Mark C.

Posted by markc at April 17, 2006 11:28 AM