BC's Premier uses rightwing Sun Media to boost fortunes

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If anyone ever doubted that the BC 'Liberal' Party, the current
government, was a right wing party, all one has to do is see which media
they use for their propaganda.

24 Hours is a daily rag in Vancouver. Christy Clark chose it to post
the bullshit front page ad you'll see in it today.

Yep, Sun Media, the company behind Faux News north and the Toronto Sun.
Reads like the National Enquirer - but with even more rabid articles.
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The B.C. Liberal Party purchased a front-page ad in Wednesday’s edition
of 24 Hours newspaper touting leader Christy Clark’s performance in
Monday’s televised debate — an ad designed to look just like the real
front page of a newspaper.

see it here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/05/01/bc-liberals-newspaper-ad.html

Clark told reporters during a campaign stop in Penticton she hadn’t seen
the ad but acknowledged the party did pay for it.
[...]

Crossing the line’

Ross Howard, who teaches journalism ethics at Langara College, says the
ad was intentionally designed to look like a news story.
B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark says she hasn't seen the ad.B.C.
Liberal Leader Christy Clark says she hasn't seen the ad. (Dan Burritt/CBC)

“I think 24 Hours has gone too close to crossing the line and I’m
surprised that they did it,” he said.

“It does say it’s a paid advertisement but I’m sorry — it’s in the wrong
place. It’s right in the middle of the 24 Hours logo, which is ironic.
But it should have said it clearly on the rest of the copy. It looks
like it’s a newspaper story, it looks like it’s unbiased, it looks like
something you can trust. But it’s not. It’s political advertising.”
[....]
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The B.C. NDP could win up to five times as many seats as the B.C.
Liberals if current polling numbers hold, according to an online seat
prediction tool created by The Vancouver Sun.

Based on the most recent Angus Reid poll — which had the NDP at 45 per
cent and the Liberals at 31 per cent — the tool predicts NDP leader
Adrian Dix and his party would win 60 of the Legislature’s 85 seats.

In comparison, the Liberals would take just 23 seats and lose leader
Christy Clark’s seat in Vancouver-Point Grey. Independent candidates
would take two seats.




















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