Friday, March 12, 2010

On unanswered questions

CBC's reporting on the use of Youtube live-streaming for Stephen Harper's reply to the throne speech alone (while Google was telling the NDP that such technology was both unavailable and to eventually be offered only for a price) is both simple and damning on its face:

Google gives preferential treatment to the Cons while lobbying them on copyright and telecommunications issues.
CBC reports the story.
The Cons attack CBC for daring to report on their perks.

But while there's apparently a request out to Google as to whether they "checked the lobby registry", it seems to me that the current direction largely misses the most important point. Isn't the bigger issue regarding Google the lack of an explanation for the difference in how Canadian parties' requests were treated? And shouldn't there be some question as to when the Cons first made contact to discuss the live-streaming, and how that might have affected Google's treatment of other parties?

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