Blog by John Miller

The real story

June 20th, 2013
Why do Canada's news media fall so easily for the political spin-doctoring being dispensed by the Prime Minister's Office? It's almost as if Stephen Harper can seize the news agenda these days by simply dragging a mildly odiforous and vaguely crimson herring across the path of reporters. Away they go. One of my previous research projects examined how easily the media lapped up a ...

The fat cats

June 7th, 2013
No journalist should ever be appointed to the Senate.I could have told Stephen Harper that years ago, before he decided that Mike Duffy would make a dandy senator representing P.E.I. (which is only his home address when he's at the cottage) and Pamela Wallin would be just a peachy choice to represent her native Saskatchewan (which is actually even further away from her current home address in ...