- Ottawa press pack upset at silent Prime Minister
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The Prime Minister's relations (or lack thereof) with the Ottawa press gallery has once again got the gallery worked up.
The Toronto Star got all exercised after Mr. Harper gave a speech on Saturday extolling press freedom, then failed to take questions from reporters. (Note to Star: "Freedom of the press" isn't synonymous with having regular press conferences with the prime minister. Freedom means you have the right to write what you want; it doesn't require people to make themselves available for questioning at the reporters' convenience.)
More thoughtful is this posting from David Akin on his web site, On the Hill:
I can't recall the last time Prime Minister Stephen Harper took questions in Ottawa from the Parliamentary Press Gallery (PPG) at an open-ended press conference. He took a question or two from the PPG when Obama was in town and I think he took a few at the National Press Theatre when Melissa Fung was released from captivity in Afghanistan.
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