The
Toronto Sun 'newspaper' has a reputation for being lowbrow, to put it mildly, but even they can outdo themselves: Right wing rags are known for picking unflattering pictures to illustrate any given person they have a hate-on for. With digital video and its high quality imaging, and the rapid fire picture taking capability of 'still' cameras today, one can pull a frame which best marks that moment when someone does not look their best. With its story on Toronto police chief Bill Blair, and councillor Doug Ford's quest to knock down the man via initiating an investigation by the
Office of the Independent Police Review Director, the hateful
Toronto Sun uploaded to their website a special frame. No doubt their brainless, not to mention easily amused, faithful are loving this...
Over at the
Toronto Sun's mortal enemy, the
Toronto Star, there are ladies and gentlemen; and real journalists...
The
Toronto Sun is in serious financial trouble. The question, "what came first, the chicken or the egg?", does not matter. Any journalistic integrity they may have had at one time has been removed by a trashiness which only serves to flush them down even faster. (An apt metaphor.)
What will happen to the Toronto newspaper landscape when the
Sun does go under? Nothing; there will still be three major Toronto dailies....
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I was going to title this piece "Toronto Sun Dung", but then I realized it's not good to give away the joke right off the top.
2 comments:
That's hilarious, since Doug Ford looks exactly like that carefully-picked frame 95% of the time, and Rob looks worse all the time.
You are correct. (Sorry, I could not say "right".)
Rob looks so unhealthy; the Cardiac Card.
I had a coffee with an old friend on Friday and he asked me if I'd been following the Rob and Doug story. (He has not seen my blog in a while.) We talked of the 'key' frame issue, and he noted that the Toronto Sun likes to do their special frame pic pick with Kathleen Wynne in particular. I added: "Maybe some day they will grow up."
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