Over at the Toronto Sun, the editorial board is decrying the media’s interest in the robocall scandal, arguing that it is yet another shiny ball that the “anti-Harper crowd” – that is the opposition, the “left-wing media,” and the Ottawa bubble people – are chasing after, “hoping this one has more substance than glitter.”
According to the Sun, this is not the first time we’ve seen this. “They love chasing shiny balls,” it states, before explaining:
“Their hatred of the Harper conservatives have had them chasing the insult of prorogation, the death of the long-form census, the so-called in-and-out scandal, the treatment of Afghan detainees, et cetera.
They might as well have been chasing their tails since Canadians obviously paid them no heed.”
It’s an interesting perspective particularly when it comes to journalism, this, the idea that rather than take interest in particular details that appear askew or ask a lot of questions of our elected officials, one ought to assume nothing will come of it anyway and, instead, simply do nothing at all to begin with. It’s to accept defeat without even starting a war.
And like so many things, the ethos behind such an approach was summed up – and dismantled – by The Simpsons. Eighteen years ago.
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