Thanos Thanos:
There's always a sense with Canadian media that when the Liberals fuck up it's a major chore for the reporters to have to cover it. For example the media is still flipping out today, nearly two months after the election, over what Scheer believes about abortion. The blackface, and SNC too, are now essentially dead issues that have been effectively forgiven altogether.
Scheer is still under fire because he is not being clear about his views.
Trudeau came forward, admitted his fuckups and we moved on.
But the mainstream media, in both cases, reported things exactly as they were. There were no embellishments, there was no attempt to read any deeper meanings into the story in order to flog it in the endless 24 hour news cycle. And it was also no attempt to gloss over or bury these stories because of partisanship. They were fully sussed out, and explored.
Thanos Thanos:
Doesn't sound too responsible to me, that Trudeau's obvious character flaws that affect his leadership have been put to rest when they should still be as front-and-center in reporting. If it's well-justified in the US with the media keeping Trump's odious personality in the spotlight then the same should absolutely be going on in Canada with Trudeau.
No one has forgotten his flaws. We are waiting to se if they re-appear. Everyone who genuinely apologizes for bad behavior get the chance to earn redemption. But that isn't on the media, that is on us. The media is just a reflection of societies morals, it shouldn't be the dispensary of those morals.
Trump earns his place in the daily news through his ongoing actions. Trudeau does not. What Canadians won't put up with in our media is the endless assassination of a public figure that eventually claims their career in order to feed the 24 hour news beast.
Canadian media, to it's credit, didn't pull a FOX News trick of identifying everyone else in the black/brown face photos and digging dirt on them in order to reflect it back on Trudeau. That's the difference between real journalists and yellow journalism.