TJ O'Pootertoot
Senior Member
Royson James was very anti-Miller but I wouldn't say the whole Star was. The paper IS generally Liberal/left-wing.
They did two articles during the Ford campaign that I think:
a) crossed the line
b) drove voters to Ford
One was a column by Heather Mallick that compared waking up after Ford's election to being roofied and date-raped. It wasn't funny. The other was an editorial urging people to vote for anyone but Ford. I may agree with the general idea but they made it too personal and desperate and made things worse. I don't even know what happened with Ford allegedly hitting the football player (his alleged reason for never talking to them), but in retrospect I feel like I'm safe in taking The Star's side there.
Still, they generally supported Miller and have been generally apoplectic about Ford. Even if the latter was for good reason, I do understand (at least to an extent) why people with certain worldviews treated The Star like the boy who cried wolf when the crack story broke (forgetting, of course, that Gawker broke it first and The Star provided independent verification).
It's a sad state of affairs all around is my point, I guess.
EDIT - Wonders of the internet, Mallick's column is still there for the reading...
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/09/20/mallick_waking_up_with_mayor_rob_ford.html
They did two articles during the Ford campaign that I think:
a) crossed the line
b) drove voters to Ford
One was a column by Heather Mallick that compared waking up after Ford's election to being roofied and date-raped. It wasn't funny. The other was an editorial urging people to vote for anyone but Ford. I may agree with the general idea but they made it too personal and desperate and made things worse. I don't even know what happened with Ford allegedly hitting the football player (his alleged reason for never talking to them), but in retrospect I feel like I'm safe in taking The Star's side there.
Still, they generally supported Miller and have been generally apoplectic about Ford. Even if the latter was for good reason, I do understand (at least to an extent) why people with certain worldviews treated The Star like the boy who cried wolf when the crack story broke (forgetting, of course, that Gawker broke it first and The Star provided independent verification).
It's a sad state of affairs all around is my point, I guess.
EDIT - Wonders of the internet, Mallick's column is still there for the reading...
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/09/20/mallick_waking_up_with_mayor_rob_ford.html
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