Harper staffer defends Tory media policy

HALIFAX — Speed dating — that's how Prime Minister Stephen Harper's director of communications is characterizing the media's shaky new relationship with the Conservative government.

"We really haven't figured everybody out yet, but we're starting to get a good idea of what we like and what we don't like," Sandra Buckler told the Canadian Association of Journalists on Sunday.

Buckler was participating in a panel discussion featuring three journalists and a former communications director to Jean Chrétien.

Buckler's analogy — likening the Tory relationship with the media to a brief, first date with a stranger — was in response to criticism that the government has tried to shut out journalists as they try to cover federal politics.

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Truly a bunch of nincompoops. They haven't realized that Rummy speak is out, that neoism is dead after November. A total bunch of hangers on. In at the end of the party and they can't see the trees for the forest.

Film at 11.

What a doofus. Who does that? Who books a room on the Titanic, or buys a ticket for the Hindenberg, with the benefit of hindsight.

Stephen Harper does.

Worst. Prime Minister. Ever.

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"Suffice to say, there is a difference between good reasoning and reasoning that you don't like, and I think that's where . . . we don't see eye to eye."

The only difference is what Cons consider good reasoning is good form THEIR perspective when it comes to public image. It has NOTHING to do with what's in the best interest of Canadians.

Tories are banking that Canadians mistrust and lack of respect is going to be as large as their partisanship.

If this is the ONLY thing that the Media can find to complain about, then Harper and his crew are even money to win a majority unfortunately.