It’s hard to spot the real news in the liberal media—I think because the lead looks too good for the Conservatives and the liberal media is in an increasing funk about it.
The Globe and Mail resorts to reporting it not on the first page, even though they commissioned the poll and the historic election is four days away, but rather on page seven.
The CTV, even though they co-sponsored the poll, doesn’t seem to report it at all. They refer to some figures from it in a story but don’t present the overal result. It’s not on their front page at their web site, in fact I looked around and couldn’t find anything except a report about yesterday’s poll, which showed a similar result.
That’s reliable, honest news reporting? That’s fair and balanced?
Meanwhile, Democracy Watch has given the Conservative Party their highest grades in their annual ranking.
Tories have best accountability platform: watchdog
An advocacy group for clean government has awarded top marks to the federal Conservative Party for accountability.
Democracy Watch has released its annual review of the main federal parties’ platforms, giving each of them a letter grade in 16 different areas—ranging from “Requiring honesty-in-politics” to “Ensuring loophole free laws and strong penalties for wrongdoers.”
Highlights of the group’s Report Card on the 2006 Government Accountability Election Platforms:
The Tories had the best overall grade of “B”—mainly because they made many specific pledges in the areas of ethics and accountability, says Democracy Watch.
The Tories also had the best grade in two of the five sections (a “B+” in “Open Government Measures, and a “B” in “Representative, Citizen-Driven Measures”).
[…] The Liberals scored an overall grade of “F”—the worst result by far of all the parties, and they also had he worst grades in all five sections.
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