The Harper Tip Off
A small fury erupted at the parliamentary press gallery meeting on Friday, when it was revealed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had been tipped off in advance about the questions to be posed by Canadian journalists.
The Canadian press gallery had a strict limit of two questions, which they negotiated in advance. The CBC covered the negotiations on a live blog. The debate elicited a lively reponse from the online audience, but it appears that one of Harper’s aide was also online, and tipped off the Prime Minister. The Globe’s Hill correspondent Daniel Leblanc has more.
Well, I guess we learnt our lesson on that. But kudos to the news folk for the live blogging. It was really an innovative way to cover the Obama visit.
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I wonder if CNN had the same terms of agreement in their interview with SH!
Have the relevant quotes been removed from the liveblog replay? That’s a little naff, if so.
Really? Harper needed a “tip” to know that the Canadian media was going to ask about the economy?
When blogging live about what’s going on should the journalist blogging hold back information?
Actually, it’s not clear from the article whether Harper knew exactly what was going to be asked, or just the general themes mentioned in the liveblog. Chances are the tGaM is just doing a guilt-by-association thing, to which all you can say is, “he who smelt it, dealt it”.