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Blogging blahs – but a congrats to Kady O’Malley on getting a CBC gig

Scott Tribe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:27:58 +0000

When you catch a nasty post-Thanksgiving sinus cold, one really doesn’t feel like blogging too much – not even on something you are passionate about – such as politics. In between sniffling and using up half a forest of Kleenex, however, this caught my eye – Kady O’Malley is making the jump to the Mother Corporation:

Political blogger Kady O’Malley is making the switch from Maclean’s magazine to CBC News. O’Malley, who has covered federal politics for more than a decade, will be part of the CBC News team covering Ottawa and will blog for CBCNews.ca, beginning Oct. 26. She has covered federal politics as a freelance writer for [...]

A gentle suggestion for fairness.

Scott Tribe — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:37:09 +0000

If Maclean's is going to give the most prominent Conservative supporting blogger in the country a forum at their site where he can spout his Conservative talking points off, how about they also give a Liberal blogger or a Progressive Blogger an opportunity to put out their point of view? [...]

Do you wanna help send Kady O’Malley to blog the G-20?

Scott Tribe — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:38:39 +0000

You have a chance to, as Paul Wells explains at Macleans (read more): [...]

A query to Macleans about blogging balance.

Scott Tribe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:02:08 +0000

I congratulate Stephen Taylor for getting a gig at Macleans as a regular blogger. I do wonder though where the blogging counter-balance to Mr. Taylor’s presence on the Maclean’s roster is, now that they have promoted him and his blogposts to the same blogging section as where you find Coyne/Wells/O’Malley et al. Did the editorial board of Macleans just feel their blogging roster are a majority of “closet Liberals”, so they needed some “balance”, and decided to give Taylor a forum where he can publish his openly pro-Conservative blogging views?

Also.. I noted with amusement that they didn’t even say who Taylor was in his first blogpost. That raised [...]

If you want to see what rightwing ranting and foaming at the mouth looks like..

Scott Tribe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:02:24 +0000

…check out Andrew Coyne’s liveblogging of the BC Human Rights Tribunal looking into whether Macleans exposed Muslims to hatred by publishing excerpts from Mark Steyn’s book.

Part 1 is here (comments are closed, but you’ll get the idea – even Marc Lemire makes an appearance, accusing Macleans of getting what they deserve), and Part 2 is here (ranting and raving in comments currently in progress).

I’m not picking on Andrew at all – but the comments thread looks like what Small Dead Animals or any number of extreme-right-wing blogs message threads looks like (and many of the lunatics are in there).