Showing posts with label Tweet Masters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tweet Masters. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Today's News: Sorting it out

I was trying to sort out the David Akin vs Pierre Poilievre contretemps yesterday and I couldn't figure out what happened or who did what.
I should just have waited for Dale Smith's column today:
...the federal government has announced their assistance package for low-income people dealing the effects of high inflation, and Poilievre calls a press conference to react. And the spectacle begins. 
David Akin, one of the reporters present, takes offence that Poilievre insists he won’t take questions (and he hasn’t since he was made leader), and starts shouting questions at him. 
And what does Poilievre do? Call Akin a “Liberal heckler” (because the pool camera can’t see Akin as he’s behind it), and a few hours later, sends out a fundraising appeal to his base that plays victim, that the media is out to get him, and that they’re all protecting Trudeau, and that you need to send him money to take on both Trudeau and the media. 
It’s gross, it undermines institutions, it undermines democracy, but he doesn’t care. It’s his game. And most of the media in this country have no idea how to react to it, and it’s going to be a real problem going forward. 
Here's the background: Also, Smith's "hermit crab" analogy is great here:
On a side note, the Royals are having their challenges these days: Finally, yesterday I saw this tweet and the comments and suggestions that followed: So now I have put together a new Twitter List that I call "Tweet Masters" so I won't lose track of the best tweeters on the Internet. You can follow this list if you want: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1569911596562137091?s=20