Ferguson: Journalistic integrity?
Earlier this month, I spent a day in my car listening over and over to stories about the taped conversation between Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and her aide, Jasmine MacDonnell – stories concerning medical isotopes and allegedly radioactive relationships between fellow cabinet ministers.
Is there some reason no one comments on the integrity of the media who released this story?
On the CBC, the author of the story, Stephen Maher of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, told his tale to Anna Maria Tremonti of The Current.
A colleague had told him that a someone he might know had left her tape recorder in a women’s washroom on Parliament Hill. He listened to a bit of the content and recognized that it was MacDonnell. He said he “liked her.”
He phoned her and told her the recorder had been found. She said she would pick it up but after five months she still had not done so. Meanwhile, the recorder lay in his desk drawer.
Then the media ran the story of how MacDonnell had accidentally left her minister’s confidential files at a news conference.
Maher said that only then did it occur to him there might be something “important” on the tape recorder. Up until then he had been “a little bit squeamish” about listening to it. No kidding.
But that moral impulse seemed to fade.
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beentheredonethat Says:
It is a rare day when I agree with something the Star publishes. Totally agree.
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
Jack Says:
So do I.
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Larry Says:
Don’t blame the messenger! What the story tells Canadians is that a minister of the crown is more concerned about her career path than the welfare of Canadians. It also gives us insight to her (and most politicians) thinking in that any problem can be solved by throwing money at it.
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Lee Says:
Larry, you are as bad as the media.
That is not the story at all, and unless you are totally illiterate, you know that.
This is exactly whats wrong with our country right now.
Take something out of context, make it into something that doesnt even come close to what was said, then spread it around like its the truth.
You , sir, are as disgusting as the media.
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm