As for Babs enviro and poverty suggestion, go back to your cheesy blog and rant about it for an hour or two. All three readers will no doubt agree and complain that the government isn’t spending enough on those areas.

You then linked it to Garth Turner, who has been caught changing his blog by Stephen Taylor, rather than being merely “critical.”

Even with all thine muchly offered protestations regarding independence, it is highly unlikey that you would engage in similar anti-team play as Turner, short of safe team Rabinobitching.

When it comes to satirical comedy, dont go (using taxpayer funds) lecturing and confusing Canadians about what constitutes “media access.” Satirical comedy is not journalism. Dont go making apples into banana peels!

Rick engages in partisan anti-con activism. He is neither a journalist nor an objective party.

It is you who created a false situation in your post there lappy, not hypothetical.

Sure you have the freedom to blog, but you appear to lack the balls and objectivity to actually do it with any critical feck.

As for Ouimet’s complaint that Mercer should have stood up for the photographer. Rick is a whore and will do anthing to get the sketch, or the One-Tonne gig…

The PM’s jab wasn’t at Mercer, but the Liberals for using his whoring skills-for-hire to promote a plan that they signed onto, but never made one effort to seriously implement.

Finally, when it comes to a CBC comedy crew, they may be getting your only ratings of late, but dont call them “the media”!

But then again, you probably think you are “the media” too!

And that was my source for Turner’s ousting, too. The caucus chair said Turner was removed for issues of confidentiality, tone and personal attacks (i.e. being a critic), though Turner denies the confidentiality part. The party itself isn’t citing specific reasons, and I didn’t see any obvious breaches in his blog, nor do others – but perhaps you have sources that I don’t. Unless you do, your second hypothetical is as iffy as your first.

But back to the original issue, and your first hypothical: should government officials (or Crown corporations, or anyone for that matter) pick and choose media access based on their assumed political beliefs? And picking up on Ouimet’s comment, how should the media respond?

(I tried to find info on the press gallery discussion on media access, but came up empty. The press gallery site is useless.)

Here’s a parallel:

You work at the CBC. You know insider exclusive sports rights being negotiated. You blog those details out for everyone, including your competitors to read.

You get warned repeatedly but continue to blog on confidential topics.

An when you get “uninvited” though a permanent pay withdrawal, someone else can do a heckling hit post on CBC for acting in an unreasonable fashion. And as a non- team player, you wonder why you don’t get a job blogging for an upstart broadcast network. Strange that.

Do you not have someone to bounce these ideas off first before posting them? This is how the CBC communications department works in Maffin’s extended absence.

Mercer to CBC comms: Whah, whah we didn’t get our way so you lapbloggers cry for us.

That is, for suggesting that if he were the official photog on last summer’s plane rescuing Canadian citizens from war-torn Lebanon, he would have given up his seat. Pretty mild.

But what also bothers me is according to the article, Mercer and his producer went along with this and “seemed reluctant to talk about it.”

Why didn’t they stand up for Chan?

Your Fox question is interesting, though I don’t think it’s a parallel. Harper had already invited Mercer in to do a piece, and invited CBC camera people – but then vetoed the still photographer. Just seems weird.

Mercer has admitted his anti-con bias in the Post. Ever since he has made it an near exclusive task of using his blog to attack only conservative MPs. Shit he even went cybersquatting on Jason Kenney’s site.

BBC has finally admitted its bias.

The rest of CBC, and you paid CBC lapbloggers in particular should do the same and get it over with.

Imagine the gaul if someone from Fox showed up at CBC and demanded to use its own photographer to snap gotcha pictures of Tony Burman for a hit piece.

The nerve!