Comments on: A year's politics in 12 chapters

By: Dot

Dot — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:32:07 +0000

John,: whither twitter?

From the announcement of the nominees for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction Jan 6th including the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst http://www.quillandquire.com/omni/article.cfm?art…

to today's instant gossip/cheap shot forum employed by a large portion of the PPG to foster group think, piling on, and promoting one's own personal obsessions, the "profession" has evolved (to the worse I'd argue – "say how many followers do you have?" ), yet you've stayed clear as this recent tweet suggests:

One of Canada's most thoughtful political writers sits in the office next to mine: John Geddes. His year in review: http://bit.ly/eJLtZP” target=”_blank”>http://bit.ly/eJLtZP

Perhaps the answer lies in the adjectives.

By: Blues Clair

Blues Clair — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Great summery Mr. Geddes. Many Canadian political pundits are quite predictable. You Surely, ain't one.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:26:56 +0000

And yet after a year [at least] of ongoing disasters…the polls aren't moving anywhere, and our media is not alarmed.

As to the 'Economic Action Plan':

'Except that, for all the money spent on communications, 41 per cent of Canadians (57 per cent of Quebeckers) had never heard of the Economic Action Plan. More than half of those over 60 – the ones we’re told pay more attention to news and vote more frequently than young people – hadn’t heard of the plan. And among those who’d heard of the plan, most didn’t really know what it was about. These results emerged from an Environics poll conducted last April for the Department of Finance.'
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opin…