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Originally Posted by Iginla
Are seasonal workers not being laid off early because of financial restraints? Why would this journalist fabricate that?
It's cool to say he's a hack journalist but if you are in the know then share why he's wrong.
He's quoting the union president so maybe your beef is with him?
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He's a hack because all he does is drum up controversies about non-issues. A "proper" journalist would have at least tried to balance out a little bit of the spin by including the small but important detail that favourable weather allowed the work to be completed earlier than usual. Instead, we got an article that suggests that the city is mercilessly sending seasonal workers to the soup lines and to expect our parks to become wastelands of rotting leaves and garbage because of it.
If the city has gone a penny over the budget, perhaps by paying the workers anyway when the work was already completed, Platt and the Sun would have been all over the city for overspending.
The Sun's receipe is this: take a relatively small issue, pick a side, include a generous portion of hyperbole, a pinch of fact, and a few tasty quotes. Then watch their "sophisticated" readership eat it all up.