Media

I am really getting sick of how the media spins stories to make the Conservative Government look bad. Take the latest example from THE CANADIAN PRESS (which is what myTELUS.com uses for their left-leaning news stories).

The headline today on myTELUS says "Federal stimulus helpful but too small to turn economy around: economists". Now of course, this would seem to indicate that the Conservative's upcoming budget does have some good measures in it, but - as it says right in the headline - is too small. So the average person thinks the Conservative's aren't doing enough to try to shield the country from recession, just by reading the headline.

You can view the article in its entirety right here.

Now what is that little blurb I see in there? 5 paragraphs down, on a single line?

"But economists said the package's size is appropriate."

WOW. So really, economists (who are pretty smart people when it comes to the economy, last time I checked) think that the Conservative's are doing enough......the package is "appropriate". Yet the headline says it is "too small".

This is one example - if you are to read anything by the Canadian Press, the Associated Press or the Grasp & Flail (Globe & Mail), they all use the same techniques. The only unbiased National publication I have found so far to report Canadian political news - The National Post.

It is an absolute shame that those other medias I referred to have to resort to controversial (and usually flat-out untrue) headlines to try to attract readers.