Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Nothing new

A couple of notes on the fund-raising story which is inexplicably getting so much attention today:
- First, these numbers aren't news; in fact, the CP reported on them two months ago. But at the start of a slow news season, Jane Taber is apparently now rummaging through clippings from the previous few months to be recycled into headlines.
- Second, in my posting on the first story, I criticized the CP for discussing the parties in an arbitrary order rather than actually listing them in order of fund-raising success - which would have resulted in more press for the NDP and Greens, and less for the Libs and Bloc. But Taber manages to take several additional steps in writing major pieces out of the story: despite the NDP's success in raising over twice as much as the Libs, Taber doesn't even mention them (or for that matter the Greens or Bloc) until the postscripts.

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