Buckdog

A quote from the Starphoenix Friday March 12th 2010

"Young said the premier's office and the constituency office of Environment Minister Nancy Heppner, the Martensville MLA, had not received any calls from the public over the flyer."

This my friends is an outright LIE!!
I for one called both offices yesterday to voice my outrage at such a callus and stupid act!
So now as per the norm the gestapo that is Walls public relations department is trying to hide more of the truth from us!
This foolish, foolish woman has embarrassed our entire country with this ridiculous advertisement!
Why has she not been removed from her position yet?
it is my opinion that to do anything less only shows the world that we as Canadians could care less about what hurts other people.
This is indeed a very sad day in our history.

Thank you so very much for continuing to follow this story so well and so thoroughly.

Thank goodness we have bloggers who care about real news and who will do the job that is being ignored by the traditional, corporate news media.

I understand that members of the legislative press gallery were shown the offending poster even before it appeared on a number of Saskatchewan blog sites, and refused to follow up or do any stories!

Now they have been embarrassed into following your lead, as this has become a North American story!

We need a full investigation of how poorly-served our province has been by the corporate media, who spend all their time regurgitating government news releases and government spin, and no time investigating and exposing the information that matters.

Another victory for citizen journalists!

Thanks! I think that the power of the new media (blogs - facebook - twitter) has not yet registered with many in the MSM. A good example of this is the reaction of cyberspace to Harper's prorogation of parliament. He and many political pundits believed that the public didn't care. Wrong.

Those of us who have been using the new tools for awhile are aware of how effective these new forums have become. Not recognizing the effectiveness of new media is a guarantee of being left behind in the dust of 21st century communications techniques. I mean, blacksmiths were once relevant too! Lessons can be learned from their demise a century ago.

Personally, I think firing Nancy Heppner for this would be overkill for what was, really, poor judgement, not malice.

Mind you, I also think it was overkill when Lorne Calvert caved in to the Saskies and fired Ted Bowen for referring to the least intellectually gifted president in US history as "Shrub."

Since the Saskies called for Ted's firing, they really should be consistent.