Barrel Strength

Driving back from hockey this morning, I heard Bob Rae chuckling abut the ‘plagiarism’ thing with some CBC radio host.  (Oh, those UCC boys. ‘Remember when we short-sheeted Biff?’) It reminded me of Mike Keenan measuring the visiting team’s bench when he had a playoff game in the other city – why, this bench is five inches shorter than regulation!  I’m not quite sure I can put my team on the ice under these conditions!  These illegal, lawless conditions! Standard mind abuse of your opponent.  Hardly a colossal gaffe of thermonuclear proportions. Oops.  Forgot to put quotation marks around that.  Hardly “… a colossal gaffe of thermonuclear proportions.”

Duggan’s Dew was talking to me yesterday about the significance of the recent changes at CBC’s website, which had featured the ravings of Heather Mallick about Sara Palin and Republican sexual inadequacies.

The CBC ombudsman  determined that the CBC’s political website had not exposed the range of political views available, and that it had erred seriously in publishing Mallick’s piece.

This morning, Jonathan Kay  remarked on how good a week it was for the blogosphere, as various nutjob 9/11 deniers have been forced out of the Canadian election campaign.

Kay writes: “The episode points the way to the future of the developing relationship between bloggers and the MSM. Yes, there will be competition, as the various media jostle for the available eyeballs out there. But there will also be synergy — with bloggers doing the sifting and stirring the outrage, while the broadcast and print journalists perform the equally important job of forcing the issue during scrums, interviews and press conferences.”

 All true, all good, but something more important is happening in Canada.

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