Wow. Jason Cherniak has quite a low tolerance for how private media reports things, particularly when it’s a story about the Liberals. Here’s what he had to say recently:
I want to be clear that I am not complaining about the Tories and Liberals referring to the others as making “promises”. As political opponents, you have to expect charged language from them. The point is that our newspapers need to avoid subjective wording in their news sections. Everybody certainly has a bias, but such biases should not be “reported”, they should be on the opinion pages. Reporters have a duty to use objective language and let the readers decide whether they believe the politician.
As one of the comments in Jason’s blog points out Dalton McGuinty has created a situation for himself where the word “promise” has become dangerous.
Premier McGuinty made his bed and now, as they say, he must sleep in it.
