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Duly Quoted: Mike Del Grande

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“The media have a responsibility to act with integrity and professionalism… They’re supposed to consider the danger of publishing false, slanderous and libellous statements, especially anonymous ones. That’s Journalism 101. A number of editors and producers appear to have skipped those classes in school… I’d say the CBC and the Toronto Star in particular have lost their journalistic compass.”

—City councillor (Ward 39, Scarborough-Agincourt) and budget chief Mike Del Grande, in a guest column for the Toronto Sun. Del Grande was responding to the mayor’s recent tussles with the CBC over the suprise Princess Warrior visit to his house, and more generally, it seems (we have to guess, because Del Grande doesn’t furnish additional examples) to a history of coverage the current administration doesn’t find fair. Also yesterday, the Executive Committee deferred (i.e. sent into a procedural black hole) a proposal by Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity Spadina), calling on the municipal government not to exclude specific media outlets from attending media events or receiving press releases—which the administration consistently has done with the Star.

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  • Anonymous

    Two thoughts come to mind. First, it’s just a bit rich to criticize the CBC and Toronto Star for a lack of journalistic standards while using the pages of the Toronto Sun to do so. Second, that the Sun would run such a piece makes sense given their ongoing mission to destroy the CBC.

    But seriously, these guys are such babies. When it comes to railing against their enemies, boy, they certainly can dish it out. But the moment anyone calls them on their BS they’re out there playing the victim. “Cry for me! The media is too critical and threatening to hold us accountable for our actions!”

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. Publishing this piece in The Sun; Integrity and professionalism, laughable.

      “The media have a responsibility to act with integrity and professionalism… ”

      It should read

      “The mayor has a responsibility to act with integrity and professionalism… “

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. For half a dozen years or more, it was open season on David “Pinko” Miller. The Sun used to run commercials featuring Sue Ann Levy talking about the crazy goings-on down at the Pink Palace. But utter so much as a syllable against a hare-brained scheme like the waterfront monorail, and it’s like someone rewrote Milton’s Modest Proposal, substituting the Fords for Irish babies. These guys need to develop a thicker skin. Then again, thinking back to high school, the bullies were usually the ones who were the quickest to take offence/claim to be injured.

  • Anonymous

    Someone in the Ford camp is talking about integrity and professionalism and falsehoods? Really?

  • Anonymous

    Really a comedy show taping a bit is supposed to have journalistic integrity? …and this is coming from the tabloid known as the sun (the same paper that published an upskirt pic of Kate Middleton on the front page, and “welcome to hell” after the most recent election) so that is the pinnacle of editorial and journalistic integrity then, eh?

    Let’s not forget the person calling RoFo the worst person in the world (Olbermann) is not on either of the Star’s or CBC’s payroll so you can’t really pin the blame on them.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, and I disagreed with 22 Minutes’ decision to go after Himself at his home. But the Sun doesn’t have a leg to stand on on that point after Ezra Levant took a camera to the CBC building and started harassing employees on their lunch breaks.

  • John Duncan

    Often, when I’m interviewed by the media — and here I would single out papers like the Toronto Star — there is an obvious “agenda” indicated in the questions.

    Clearly, someone has already determined what the story should be and the reporter tries to lead me down the “garden path” with their questions and my answers.

    They look for the responses they want, not the ones you’re giving them.

    Well, yeah. That’s kind of what journalism is.
    When a media outlet just publishes the responses someone feels like giving them, without actually questioning the facts and agenda behind them, it’s called a “press release”, not journalism.

  • http://twitter.com/mark_dowling Mark Dowling

    Fortunately there is no councillor code of ethics against being a barefaced liar. “No service cuts, guaranteed…”

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