The Star's Trudeau hagiography

[alcina]

Today's Star features several glowing articles and beautiful photos hyping Trudeau. There's also a 2-page spread advertising the Liberal's platform of "real" change.

Toward the end of the longest article, they mention that "either opposition party would be a welcome change after the Harper years." But then they offer up the threat of vote-splitting to encourage voters to unite behind Trudeau.

I guess the Star subscribes to the practice of publishing flattering articles about people who buy a lot of advertising with them.

Ugh.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. The Liberal party, and the media are masters of election-time manipulation.

I'll never understand how people fall for this crap. Even at the CBC which is supposed to represent all candidates equally and truthfully. I'm not despondent about this election though; the media and pollsters have been wrong before, and maybe once again the NDP will give them a surprise, as in Quebec in 2011, and Alberta this past summer.

[alcina]

2. Discounting the polls

The "pros" in the campaign office where I'm volunteering criticize the polls when they're negative but are all a-twitter when they're positive. It actually makes me a little uncomfortable. Nonetheless, I know how polls can be manipulated and just flat-out wrong. So I, too, will not be despondent and will continue to help the campaign until all the votes are cast.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Yesterday Trudeau dismissed the idea of setting GHG emissions targets.

And Mulcair promptly called him out in 2 speeches that day. This is far from over, there is still over a week to go.


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[alcina]

4. I listened to the interview

and was pleased by how hard Chris Hall was pushing him to answer. Made it so clear that Trudeau just throws out a lot of feel-good platitudes without any substance or details. Sort of like he's reading from a script but didn't really do any background research himself. Ya think?

I was also rather surprised to see the CBC's headline relating to that interview -- Trudeau on emissions targets: no need for 'ambitious political numbers'. (I'm also rather surprised by their use of single quotation marks, but that's another issue altogether.) They could have spun it much more positively, and probably would have were it a Rosemary Barton interview. My! but that fan girl loses her composure in the presence of Le Petit Trudeau.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Evidently, the Liberal environmental plan

is to have more photo-ops of Trudeau canoeing.

[arikara]

6. The Star actually endorsed Trudeau

a few days ago. Sigh.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/10/09/for-justin-trudeau-and-the-liberal-party-editorial.html