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Originally Posted by Slava
Hah, well as I guy who isn't looking for an NDP majority I guess that is a piece of it. The other issue is that I generally hate how the media covers elections with this type of thing. They should at least attempt to be unbiased as their coverage has a large effect on peoples opinions and the outcomes of the campaigns IMO.
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I absolutely agree. When it comes to something as sensitive as election coverage, I think that the media owes it to the public to present things in an unbiased manner, but that's not what we, or anyone else has. At least the playing field seems to be even now as you have biased media from all sides.
As a CPC supporter, can you imagine how frustrating it is when one Conservative candidate says something stupid and then suddenly the media jumps on it and starts lending conclusions pointing towards the dreaded Conservative hidden social agenda? Yet, it happens all the time, during every election, just like clockwork. No one on the left bemoans the sanctity of journalism then or cries out about smear campaigns. No, instead you get drones of Liberal and NDP supporters screaming about those "damn neo-cons (seriously, this #@$^ing ######s don't even know what a 'neo-con' is)". So yeah, in light of all this, I don't mind the timing of this story outside of the fact that I think it will probably end up hurting the CPC far more than it helps them.