Look at this exciting headline: "Parties refusing to blink on election"
I think the test of a functioning media system should be that it points out the obvious hypocrisy of the Liberal Party in that it was the Liberals under Jean Chretien and Paul "screw the Red Book" Martin who limited accessibility to EI so as to make the payroll tax a cash cow to be used for corporate tax-cuts and deficit reduction. It's the same sort of Liberal hypocrisy that tried to convince us that "killing" the GST meant blending it with provincial sales taxes in the same way that Brian Mulroney intended it to be, but which he was prevented from doing by Liberals who refused to let him "hide" it.
A functioning media system would point this out and discuss its significance. And I'm not talking about mentioning it in an aside once in a while. If this gargantuan hypocrisy isn't front-and-centre then the media isn't doing its job. It would be akin to a story with the headline: "Paul Bernardo decries violence against women" or "Esso cautions on dangers of wind power" in which the obvious hypocrisy on display is occasionally mitigated by quoting someone who doubts their sincerity.
I'm not asking for a functioning media right now, because there is no Santa Claus (in either Canada or the United States). I'm just saying.
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Oh, the cynicism. Don't you know the Liberal cats are true friends of the ordinary citizens of our Mouseland? They favour round holes over square holes, or vice versa. I can never remember which.
I did not know that about the Liberals. I feel so much more enthusiastic about their battles with the big, bad, heartless Conservatives.
Long live the responsible progressive alternative to inhuman corporate capitalism.
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