Canadian media showing unusual interest in election of fringe party leader....
Date: Monday, August 28 2006
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Out of the Box looking in:May wins vote to lead Greens - something funny going on here. The Canadian media is not known for covering non-mainstream parties, outside of the occasional mockery of some like the old Marijuana Party. I worked with Mel Hurtig and the National Party in 1993, and we had candidates in pretty much every riding in the country, and essentially zero media attention. We were talking about democracy, of course, which is never a popular issue with the Canadian press (they want everyone to think we have it already, of course, so it's a bit awkward covering parties who point out that Canadian 'democracy' is basically, not to try to dick around with words, a lie).
The Canadian Action Party, CAP, which has been going for the last 3-4 elections at least, with candidates all across Canada as well, has also been frozen out of the media - CAP is adamant about proportional representation as well (and many other issues the MSM is not too hot on), so that Canadians at least get the people they vote for, or the parties they vote for, which is about the last thing we get from the current FPTP (first past the post) system - and CAP has gotten less press attention in the last 15 years than Elizabeth May has gotten in the last week. It's a media-democracy thing - the attention for May and the Greens is fine - but why them and not the rest of the people in Canada who are and have been trying to start parties because they believe in something? Why this sudden 'interest' in the Greens, while maintaining the freezeout of everyone else? Inquiring minds wonder about stuff like this, although those taking their ideas from the tv shows and the MSM might never think of such things.
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