Yo-yos anyone?

The Globe and Mail: Liberal lead shrinking, new poll shows

It looks like I may have blogged too fast!

Canadian political opinion seems to change on a dime. One day we're talking about the Liberals climbing back into majority territory and the next day we say the lead has shrunk back to 5 points. Huh? I guess things really do change quickly.

A.L.

Cautious optimism on my part....

The Globe and Mail: Liberals widen gap in poll

This new poll shows Paul Martin's Liberals gaining support, and gaining daylight between them and Harper's Conservatives.

So much for all those folksy ads...

But, just as the pollsters quoted in the article cautioned, things change quickly in Canadian politics. I am also not comforted by the Quebec numbers, that could be the achilles heel for Martin.

A. L.

Fox News Truth-teller calls 'em out... Indiana-style!

Bloomington native reports the news: HeraldTimesOnline.com

This guy's comments about Fox News confirm my thoughts....

He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. "At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.

"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.

"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."

The rest of the article goes on to praise his new place of employment, NBC, and takes one final jab at Fox.

It is amazing, all this whining about liberal media bias, and the radical right claims that Fox News is "Fair and Balanced". Can't see their bias through the "truth"....

A.L.