Thursday, March 21, 2013

This Day In LINO Land...Who Else Is Receiving The Wizards' Talking Points Memos?

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That was some VSun column by The Dean yesterday, eh? 

You know....

That one where he published all those talking points from BC Liberal Party Wizards that are never about truth and clarity but, instead, are almost always about obfuscation and extreme fuzziness that sets the stage for the floating of false equivalencies in the proMedia.

And then, the next thing you know, the public is even more cynical than ever because they have been told over and over and over again that 'both sides do it'.

Anyway...

The other interesting thing about Mr. Palmer's column was that he actually got ahold of some of the talking points in advance which meant that he could sit back in the Ledge last Thursday and tick them off, one-by-one, as pols like Christy Clark and Bill Bennett rose to spout them pretty much word for word.

Which, of course, is to be expected I guess.

But here's the thing...

I can't help but wonder if it is more than just the pols that are being fed those talking points.

Because it sure seemed like at least a few members of the media herd were spouting them last week also.

For example, as I mentioned at the time, the fact that Mr. Sean Leslie pretty much reiterated Points 1 and 2 on Mr. Palmer's list in a 'news' report late last Thursday night is the reason I know longer listen to any news or current events programming whatsover on CKNW.

OK?

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Interestingly, more than one reader has contacted me offline to mention that Mr. Leslie is starting to get very upset at all the 'partisans' who have been pointing out his penchant for engaging in the grand 'floating' thingy...
And Bob....I know you're going to kill me for this...But I just had to listen last night to see if the sports guy Dan Russell, who will soon be canned by NW apparently, would say anything about it when he came back from his long sick leave...He did not (unless I missed it, because I only listened for awhile to avoid the 10pm news)...

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

MSM... way behind the curve...folks your being manipulated and have been since long before Campbell resigned....

Don't you get the feeling your being played...like a fiddle?

Com'on....propaganda is this governments middle name, malfeasance is its real game.

Grant G said...

Talking points given to media..As a regular(and frustrated) cknw listener, Sean Leslie likes to play gold, and guess what, people don`t gold alone, Sean Leslie`s regular golfing buddy is Tom Fletcher, you know Tom, he writes spin for David Black`s Black Press empire..You want talking points..

Tom Fletcher is indeed on message..Have a read.


http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/

Grant G said...

Oops, sorry about the typo..Sean Leslie likes to golf, Tom Fletcher is Sean Leslie`s golfing buddy..


Check out Tom Fletcher`s talking point column in the Black Press Burnaby News Leader..


http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/

Anonymous said...

Nobody has EVER accused Tom Fletcher of being a journalist.