What the media isn't covering during this election - Macleans.ca

Andrew MacDougall is a London based columnist, commentator and consultant. He was formerly director of communications to Stephen Harper.

A free and independent press exists to query the policies of the powerful. They’re there to surface scandal and hold people to account. They’re there to ask the hard questions us ordinary folk can’t sneak past our politicians’ Praetorian Guard during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ or Facebook Live session. And right now that free and independent press is shitting the bed.

Fine, that’s just the country’s most popular political news aggregator, targeted to the Hill crowd. How are other organizations playing the potential tax cut which impacts millions of Canadians? A quick visit to the CBC website gives me a lead story about “How the parties deal with fizzles and flops on the campaign trail” followed by “5 things Jagmeet Singh wants you to know about his turban,” neither of which I can guarantee you is anyone’s ballot question sat around the supper table.

Of course, fruity candidate comments have been a big feature of the first week of the campaign, thanks largely to the efforts of the Liberal Party on social media. Every day the Liberals have been having their cabinet minsters tweet attention to past comments from Conservative candidates, and every day they’ve managed to get the travelling press pack to turn it into a story.

To be fair, Team Trudeau did tell journalists the weekend was dedicated to ‘rapid movement’ and questions would thus be impossible, an excuse that would have been excoriated by a press pack in my days working for Stephen Harper, but elicited a patient and understanding thread from CBC reporter David Cochrane, a display of docility that will merit an entire chapter when “the history of the death of political journalism in Canada” is written.

Maybe bc Scheer is a 1NoteWonder w each plan 2 “Put More Money In Ur Pocket” is TaxCuts? Or bc ppl who need most help don’t benefit fr his tax cuts incl EI maternity tax credit + ONLY WAY 2 pay 4 TaxCuts is services cuts or run deficits. I don’t pay taxes I need more services.

Well said, Mr. MacDougall.

And you wonder why JT skipped your bs debate. The writer is the former Dir of Comm to Stephen Harper, for F sakes and he's commenting on the state of journalism in Canada while bashing the typical Con media targets. Wow, shocker regurgitation. Nice propaganda here. What a joke.

Worst tax cut ever. Worst campaign ever. Scheer can't go 5 feet without stepping on a rake.

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