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Originally Posted by #-3
To be clear, I understand how this sounds like special pleading, but consider if you will the way news cycles currently work.
Someone working for the western standard or the rebel wakes up in the morning, knowing that unless they can get thousands of clicks their irrelevant little rag will cease to exist and they will lose their job. They know that people talk about and share outrages while ignoring politics when their is no news. So they write an article saying "how outrageous is this thing that is not news", then stupid people click on the link and say "yes that is outrageous", then the MSM whose job it is to get clicks goes, "Oh no everyone is clicking on that article we aren't covering", so they start covering the not news, but in the 3rd paragraph they stipulate that it isn't news so they can feel better about themselves for reporting facts, and pretend that they aren't aware that none of their readers make it to the 3rd paragraph.
It's incumbent upon us to not be the stupid people who buy into the fake outrage.
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This "breaking news" was Zelensky formally announcing the position on social media in the very early part of the morning to the surprise of media outlets and Canadians. And into further digging upon the news, CBC (not rebel or western standard) learned from an internal source that this was known in late December
https://twitter.com/user/status/2008110048388530683
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A source close to Freeland said Zelenskyy asked her to take on the voluntary advisory role on Dec. 22 while she was in Ukraine, and she told Carney about the request on Christmas Eve.
The source, who spoke on the condition they not be named because they weren't authorized to speak publicly, said Freeland made the case that the new job is a continuation of the work she has been doing and that she sees it as good for both Canada and Ukraine.
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There was no "rebel news wakes up in the morning to fabricate outrage" here, it was fully in the rounds before Levant was likely even awake and CBC had a far better inside scoop than he could ever get to get clicks.
So while your fantasy hypothesis on how news lifecycles work may potentially have occured from time to the time (which seems to be quite a strong critic of the MSM), this is purely fantasy here.
The question is why are you so strongly adamant that this is not an issue when Freeland commits to resign on the very same day as the announcement is made public? Considering all the scandals that have plagued Liberals in the past 11 years, MP's resigning would be a daily thing if they always succumbed to even a hint of Levant or Poilievre's breath towards them.
Like it's obviously not a major scandal or even a minor scandal. It's simply a "you can't do that" matter that ends as soon as she resigns (or declines the position until she is no longer MP if she wants to stay onboard as MP until the summer and collect a paycheck).