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Monday, February 28, 2005

Local media is mad

The Saturday edition of the Regina Leader Post screamed out the headline:
He's Gone
. This was printed in about 168 pt. size. The headline was referring to a quarterback for the local Pro football team. Is the managing editor of the Leader Post Mad? ( I don't mean angry here) . Let's think about this. The provincial courts are putting single mothers in jail for unpaid parking tickets. The political landscape is one where most strategists think that only a thin strip of small L liberal paradigm is safe. Everybody wants to be a moderate. What did mediocraty ever achieve? How about a politician who for once does what he/she believes to be the right thing to do, on moral and philosophical grounds. Where is the public discussion? Not on the front page of the Leader Post, that's for sure. How about the shrinking budgets for local school boards, the shortages at our universities and technical institutes? Are we educating an entire generation of moderately skilled and intelligent people? Surely there is something more important to put on the front page of the local newspaper. Are we mad for accepting this garbage? I say yes.