Sinc wastes ink this morning to share with us the shocking revelation that the Mayor and Premier had breakfast together.
At Salisbury House.
Seriously Gord.
WTF?
This.
Is.
Not.
News.
This is possibly worthy of a pithy one paragraph blog entry (real paragraphs, not this two-word BS), but not 415 words on page B1.
I can hardly wait for the shocking follow-up: Vic Toews and Jon Gerrard have a smokie on Broadway!
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Hey curt Gordo some slack here. At least he didn’t accuse Katz of conflict of interest on having a business meeting at Sal’s.
Of course that may be tomorrow’s column.
We’ll have to wait and see.
Silly Froggie, it’s not news, it’s PR!
I really liked this comment from the Free Press website:
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SO, SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED?. . . that both Jeffrey Kramer and YOU fell for the gimmick? No. Those two needed to be seen together after some notorious press and get their casual, yet totally staged, meeting in the paper. Did you promise to announce the kiss-and-make-up in the paper Gord? Does Jeffrey Kramer even exist?
http://www.tfifinancial.ca/pdf/spring_05_mag.pdf
Jeffrey Kraemer (you need the e in their Regan) exists, and doesn’t seem to shy away from publicity.
Since when did the most two powerful men in this city need PR? And to get it like this? It makes us look so small town, it isn’t even funny. After reading this column/article and I use these terms loosely, I have lost a great deal of respect for the paper. I think the Freep had better find some new employees and retire a few others. Very poorly done.
Reading that column this morning made me physically sick.
Frog, perhaps you and others should use the powers of the internet to organize a boycott of the Free Press until Gord Sinclair is unemployed. No reading online, no buying the paper, no responding to classifieds, no using last week’s Tab to line Kitty’s litterbox, nothing.
Sign me up.
@Mike: good find… I still found the quote I pasted in there to be interesting, despite the typo.
Kinda like all the twits twitterring.
You gets the Big City Columnist you deserves.
The Freep conintyas to foist Gordo Stinklair on Winnipeg cuz union rulez sez you can’t get rid of him, so the public keeps on buying.
Its simple like dat.
What might work would be if there were staged protests outside the gates on Mountain ave next time Gordo ges caught in a lie or some other obvious conflict of interest, or caught shamelssly pimpin whatever crap the city “elite” are hooring out.
Or, following on a previous poster’s suggestion, rather than a boycott of the FREEP, a boycott of their dwindling advertisers would assuredly — no question — do the trick. Especially during these early days of recession.