“This election has been set by the pulse of blogs”
January 19, 2006
WBEZ recently started carrying the CBC’s As It Happens evening news show. As a result, I’m following this Canadian election more than I did in 2002(?)
Stephen Taylor (self-described Conservative Party Pundit) talks about the role of blogs in the election. (via Instapundit)
For those of you just catching up, this election has been set by the pulse of blogs….Indeed, all three federalist parties in Canada during this election missed the boat on blogs.
He goes on to enumerate some of the election stories broken by blogs:
We broke the income trust scandal on our blogs and were aghast when the CBC gave a summary view of the story and called it an exclusive….Other stories broken by bloggers during this election include the potential truth behind the international spat orchestrated by Paul Martin, Ralph Goodale’s request for a sole-source contract for Earnscliffe, Ralph Goodale’s faxscam, David Smith’s Abotech affair, and Tony Valeri’s land dealings among others.
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1. Media SITREP » WBEZ&hellip | April 17, 2006 at 10:28 pm
[...] I, like many others married to people who live in different time zones, resort to solo dinners of cereal, Trader Joe's pizzas and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I also listen to a lot of public radio. For the past few months, BEZ has followed Marketplace (for my money the best daily public radio show) with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's nightly magazine As It Happens. As I have mentioned before, I enjoyed listening in on the CBC's reports on Canada's winter elections as well their take on our odd country. But now that the elections are over and spring is in the air I humbly submit that it is time for BEZ to declare victory and move on. Frankly, I've had my fill of tales such as the one on Friday in which "an M-P from Labrador tells us how he'll cook up the seal that he clubbed himself." I am also no longer as amused by the whiff of northern superiority that prevails in much of their coverage. [...]