Angus McCracken
Active Member
Posts: 100
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:51 pm
Well, earlier in the campaign I noticed an inherent bias towards the Liberals by CTV and to some extent Can West, so it swings both ways and has done so in the past. The 2000 election was a perfect example of media bias, or perhaps Stockwell Day was just that much of a flake, the point is who knows?
The media can be tricky. Crime is supposedly going down nationwide, and yet the media are beating their drums all day and all night long. Murder rates are higher in the West, but when a young woman is tragically shot on Boxing Day in downtown Toronto all of a sudden the country must act swiftly to save the good people of Toronto. I think at the end of the day, you can't believe the word of any media outlet, any where. People need to learn how to gleam the truth from what they see and what they hear, and most especially from what they read. I'm waiting for the Dumb-Dumb factor as I like to call it. Those folks who wake up the day before or the day of the election and suddenly it dawns on them to make a selection between the major parties in their riding, and never all of the possible candidates. It's a shame, but people do need to realise that there are more choices, not just between the Liberals and the Conservatives, but others besides the NDP as well.
As for Ontario, well Ontario is Ontario, you have to learn to deal with Ontarians and come to accept the fact that there's nothing you can do and all your bellyaching won't change a darn thing. At least that's what I came to realise. Honestly, if I was forced to choose between only the Liberal platform on law and order, and the Conservative platform hands down it would be the Conservative. That doesn't mean they are correct or that their platform is the best, but that strictly in comparison with the Liberals, their platform actually makes sense where as the Liberal platform is all talk and no substance, just a lot of hot air and promises. Plus, their platform is built around the concept of banning something that is already illegal? Only a Liberal could come up with that one. And yet in Toronto (not including the GTA) there is overwhelming support for the Liberals. Toronto will always be a Liberal city, no matter how stupid or how corrupt the Liberals get, Torontonians will always vote Liberal. I have to say, I do hope Olvia Chow gets in, I was surprised that she didn't last time around. The sad thing about all of this is that the media in this country is centred for the most part in Toronto. You don't think you're going to get a Liberal bias in there somewhere, think again!
These polls mean nothing and will continue to do so until election day. They'll then begin to possibly resemble what will eventually become the truth on election night, so we'll just have to wait until then. I'm expecting another Liberal minority government. I put very little faith in the urban Ontarian vote, those voters who will always vote Liberal. I was hoping to see more of an increase for the NDP in Ontarian, but what can I say? People in this province for the most part aren't that bright when it comes to politics.
I personally am dying to see what the Liberals have this time around to save their arses. Possibly a video of Stephen Harper beating a disabled, black, lesbian, bilingual woman over the head with a dead baby seal? What's sad about this, is not just the disturbing picture I've painted here, but the fact that this would be the kind of thing that the Liberals would need in order to encourage people to vote for them and keep them in power. Not policy, leadership, or vision, but a man from Calgary beating a woman over the head with a dead baby seal.
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies" - George Bernard Shaw
"All great truths begin as blasphemies" - George Bernard Shaw