Media conspiracy claims James is debate winner

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Why are they doing this...isn't this against this agains the plan?

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=05871499-6178-40bb-8f21-794396240afd

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1. Yep pointing out the obvious occasionally....

...is a clear and obvious defence of the fact that all media are fair and balanced. And there is NEVER any bias in favour of the BC Liberals or any other right-wing party when compared to a left-wing (although really the BC NDP are quite centrist) party.

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2. Come on, Adrian Carr won

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3. Whaa?

Your kidding right?

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. :rofl:

I don't think she did super horribly, in fact she tried to inject more policy substance into the discussion and I was impressed with her details on enviromental issues and transportaion issues in the GVRD. But her as Premier? Heaven help us all!

I think she deserves to get into the legislature, although that will be up to the people in Powell River-Sunshine Coast and she's in a tough three-way fight, but Premier? Eepp.

Essentially I'm saying who is the most Premierish? Who was calm, collected and made it look like they could run the province while showing that they are in touch with the issues. I'd say James did that. Will it be enough to win the election? I don't know...but it surely won't hurt her.

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4. Carr won, and I'm not the only one saying so man

Tons of papers, radio commentors, TV commentors say so too.

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5. And they were quite incorrect.

Of course when it's pretty close it's all up to interpretation, but reading some of the commentary that claimed she won was ridiculous. Like Norman Ruff, a well respected political commentator claimed this, yet he never really qualified the reason why. The Vancouver free daily Metro had a ridiculous commentary claiming Carr won and that James fell flat on her face...what's even funnier than the clear bias that was shown with in it was that it contained many grammatical and spelling errors, not to mention factual faux pauxs. Besides you must recognize that Carr was the only person to make any verbal gaffe's.

And considering the Ipsos poll that showed that 34% who thought no one one, 31% thought James did, 23% who thought Campbell did and a whole 12% who thought that Carr did one really ought to consider the people's views and not the pundits. I'm not saying your wrong to point out the pundits views, I just think it's strange to think they're correct.

Would you want Carr to be Premier?

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=10009

An intresting link perhaps, showing a little bit of the bias within the media. Not to say that people with political beliefs shouldn't be allowed to work in the media, however, it's important that people know from what position someone's critique is coming from...or in this case if someone is actually neutral or not.

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6. Hell no I wouldn't want carr to be premier

"what's even funnier than the clear bias that was shown with in it " Bias? Dude, I personally know the entire editorial staff down there at the metro, I went to college with two of them, worked at a paper with one. And the Editor is a reference on my resume. I assure you they are not green backers.
The thing with polls is they can be skewed the most. Despite what the polls say, I think Carr won. I think Carr DID have it easy however because it ain't hard to point fingers when you've never held office.

Spelling mistakes in the metro eh? Gonna have to rib em about that.

By the way, if you wanna talk media stupidity see the whole "Gang up on gordo" shit? I didn't think they ganged up on him did you?

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7. Yes I did hear it...

...and it was kind of stupid, he's the incumbent so obviously they're (both of them!) going to point out his failures in goverment.

BTW while Internet polls, such as the ones that you vote in yourself can be tampred with, a twenty point spread in a regular poll is pretty impressive.