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The media are ignorant about working people

That was the thesis of Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle's column on Thursday. From the column: Yesterday on CBC Newsworld, Nancy Wilson was called upon to interview a chap who is about to lose his job at Sterling Truck in St. Thomas, Ont. An articulate man, he was pessimistic about the future and [...]

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Fri, October 24 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

The polls and the 2008 campaign

Norman Spector and Geoffrey Stevens offer some perspective at globeandmail.com. From Spector's blog, in a post entitled Pollsters were among the losers in the 2008 election: Never before has been there so much public polling in a Canadian election. And, aside from the volume, never before have there been so many nightly tracking polls presented [...]

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