Sometime my father can drive me up the wall.

I was commenting on how Steven Harper *our conservative PM* doesn't want to deal with national media anymore. He would only hold press conferences if his staff picked the journalists that asked the questions. Yet he accuses the media of being biased against the conservatives.

I think thats a load of crap. My dad however got his panties in a knot and said that the media is just a bunch of big babies and they should go find stories instead of slanting stories..ect..

Now I agree that yes the media is slanted and that the true creed of media is to report both sides of a story and is not very often done. However media is media and they have a right *freedom of speech mother fuckers* to report "the news" its not as if they are being slanderous or spreading lible. The same kinds of stories were written about the Liberals while they were in power.

In my humble opinion I think Harper should take a page from the G.W. Bush hand book on how to deal with bad press: Rile up as many flag waving,bible thumping political martrys as you possibly can and call anyone with a different opinion a "traitor" and then bomb the shit out of as many small countries and kill as many innocent people as you can and say that they died for a "cause". Yup thats what Harper needs. A good Canadian war, perhaps we could wage it against...I don't know...the Ukraine or something. We could probably beat them right?

That will definitly get the press on your side.

OR if that doesn't work maybe you could go on a crack binge *a la Courtney Love* he could moon his caucus at some fancy political dinner and then break down in tears. That should make the press feel bad for all that negative energy.

Somehow I can't see either of those situations occuring. SO maybe my point is that maybe Harper should be a big boy and realize that media is media..sometimes they are your bestfriend and sometimes they are your worst enemy. What he should be doing is focusing on running the country which the last time I checked he was elected to do.

Also as a final closer to my little rant, before Steven Harper was elected one of his promises was that he would be a more "transparent" prime minister, refering to how the liberals keep most of the country in the dark when it came to making decisions. Yup a national media blackout..waaaay more transparent.