...the main stream media is being inundated by columnists and not reporters and these reporters seem to get their information from the internet; ie: blogs, facebook, Utube, et al and when they do interview "people" their seems to be a lack of verification.
City needs an inquiry to get at the truth
By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun
Todays Media Model?...
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: The still Pulitzer-less National Enquirer specializes in an old-fashioned kind of gonzo journalism: catching celebrities with their pants down. An Al Gore’s are the latest to come unbuckled.
The Enquirer is rarely sued successfully — its reporters are that good — but its stories are often so explosive (not to mention icky and discomforting), they aren’t followed up until late in the game by the more timid mainstream media. It was the Enquirer that lifted the rock off John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator with White House aspirations who blew it all by fathering a child with a campaign aide. Mainstream news outlets ignored the story for months.
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By Peter Worthington
Now the recriminations begin — what went wrong, if anything, and why Toronto’s G20 “demonstrations” turned into a near riot and vandalism.
As predictable as the rioting by thugs which accompanied the G20 meeting over the weekend, are the calls now for a public inquiry into what happened.
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