Broken bone in his foot, eh?
Joe is right - the media didn't ask enough questions about the broken foot.
Joe knows all. the media didn't show compassion but when Josh Matlow rose above the fray to say, politics aside, he hopes Ford is OK, Warmington went on CP24 and said he should shut his hypocritical mouth. From his pathetically juvenile writing style to his utter hypocrisy and shamelessness to his total lack of journalistic ethics, I can't think of a single thing that's less-than-horrible about Warmington.
Like,
"It looked to me that Doug Ford had tears in his eyes." First, that's not English. Second, now he's saying the Media Party made Doug cry?
And this is a use of quotes I'd question if I saw it from a junior high student:
Councillor Ford asked the press to “leave” his family “alone” to sort it out before dealing with what’s going to happen with the election campaign.
Two uses of "battle" in one sentence = needs an editor:
He’s been battling cancer himself and Mayor Ford visited him regularly in the hospital even when he was embattled this summer.
I would only agree that, listening to it, it was clear the entire story was "We found a tumor and don't know the deal yet," and the reporters were trying to scrape together any more info they could, asking stupid questions about what happens next etc. It was stupid and insensitive to ask if he's dropping out of the campaign when he doesn't know if it's a benign tumor that can wait or something that will require months of chemo. Obviously.
But the Fords have themselves invited so much skepticism, I don't think that's a sign of a lack of compassion. The people who said all the media here are the most biased in the world etc. etc. might want to not cast the first stone there...(and calling them the "Media Party" is just soooo Fox News 2010, man).
To whit:
The truth is the Fords were under no obligation to have this news conference and only did it because they knew the rumours on social media would conjure up images of a relapse of addictions or God knows what.
And whose fault is that, Joe? you don't need an omnipotent deity to guess what people would CONJURE UP about a guy already known to have done hard drugs, associated with gangs etc. etc. etc. etc. This just classic "Boy Who Cried Wolf," stuff and, OK, maybe it will turn out this time there REALLY is a wolf and everyone is being "unfair," but then that's kind of the point of the whole story, isn't it?
