Saturday, January 26, 2008

"No wonder Canadians are confused and ill-informed"

At the "The Torch" Mark Collins posts a couple of excellent letters on Afstan he wrote to the Globe and Mail and the National Post.

Mark is unimpressed with Don Martin’s journalistic abilities:
...his vision is rather limited. He's basically all attitude and little cattle...:

No wonder Canadians are confused and ill-informed about the situation in Afghanistan. ...in his column "Canadian troops far from alone" (Jan. 24)...[...] he gets quite a few basic facts wrong--all the more emarkable since he was in Afghanistan himself just half a year ago.

[The litany of Martin’s errors follows]
Couldn't agree more. In December Mr. Martin wrote up his assessments of the year’s best and worst politicians. My thought at the time was that in a similar list of journalists he would easily be among the worst.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"similar list of journalists he would easily be among the worst."

Don't hold your breath waiting for such a list to appear in a newspaper. Journalists never report negatively on each other.

Their mudslinging is reserved for everyone ELSE.

As for Martin? --PLEASE-- That no-talent, wobbling piss tank only went Ass-ram-istan because he heard they served free drinks on the plane.

Anonymous said...

Too right! I expect Martin's editor imposes a 2:30 pm deadline on this guy because after 3 the guy can't type.