Robert Fife
PM Harper delivers major foreign
policy speech in NYC & meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders but
refuses to talk to Cdn media.
Oh what a shock - Harper says no to Canada's media. Yet these media stations, papers, and reporters continue to cover whatever is thrown to them by the PMO.
I think it's possible - based on Harper's actions - that he too may have been subject to behavioral study when he was a young and budding right wing fanatic.
In either case Harper loves behavioral science and he loves his subjects of study - the media.
Imagine going through a federal election campaign and stating that he would only answer 5 questions a day. Imagine telling the media he will not address them while calling them for a news conference. Yet this is the case time and time again.
Harper started by recognizing the signals that caused media to respond. He changed that by not answering questions when media expected he would. He then went on to teach them that by covering PMO releases and events they would be rewarded by a determined number of questions. It has almost become a competition among the journalists to see who Harper will recognize.
Harper will - as he has already done with much of Canadiana - eliminate normal media relations and guide them into a White House briefing style of coverage.
It is long since time that the journalists find the courage necessary to present Canadians with information and facts. If this means behavioral change in Stephen Harper so-be-it. The media must become intelligence scientists and the PM's behavior their subject of study.
Canada has sunk to new lows as Harper lies and deceives without consequence and our children watch his office as something to aspire to.
The country needs a dozen like Terry Milewski of the CBC - if not then a dozen who will stand behind him as he breaks Harper's Pavlovian experiment.
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