Canada
Can Canada's Harper Teach Bush a Lesson in Media Relations
May 19th, 2006 11:24 AM
Most Americans don't care one whit about news from Canada,
often
justifiably so. I think at least some Americans, namely the press folk
in the Bush White House, are keeping an eye on how Stephen Harper, the
new Conservative prime minister (whose party is in power after decades
of Liberal dominance) is taking no prisoners when it comes to dealing
with a press that is actually further left-biased…
Canadian Media Try to Outdo American with Secrecy Complaints
March 2nd, 2006 8:46 AM
We've often noted here at NewsBusters how the press seems to consider itself entitled to some right to know things before others. The White House press corps seems yet to recover that it wasn't the first be alerted about Vice President Cheney's shooting accident, for instance.But this attitude is not limited to just the American media. Canadian blogger Kate Werk notes a similar arrogance in the…