What Does $65 Million in Advertising Buy in the BC Election?

What Does $65 Million in Advertising Buy in the BC Election?

The proliferation of independant alternative media should be proof enough, the general public is searching for accurate opinion and factual reporting, but here is a story of the kind blatant in your face example of ad revenue’s driving editorial content?

BC Conservative candidate pulls no punches in his assessment of the story, the CBC (link attached) broke this morning. 

“I just spent $65 Million in advertising and all I got was this lousy radio anchor”

Graeme James, Kelowna Lake Country BC Conservative candidate was extremely disappointed to learn that a radio news anchor in Kelowna, Wendy McLeod with AM 1150 was removed from the air because all the while she was on air in a presumably unbiased professional journalistic role, she was volunteering on Norm Letnick’s campaign.

Langara College Journalism Professor Ross Howard says McLeod was clearly in a conflict of interest, according the CBC report filed this morning.

“Norm should never have allowed her to work on his campaign while she was in that capacity, it just looks like a really inappropriate relationship and poor judgment on his part”, said James

Taxpayers should be outraged, this is exactly why many provinces have and should have prohibitions against taxpayer funded government advertising because it creates this incestuous revolving door relationship between politicians and the media and that was clearly the Liberal government agenda to intentionally influence the main stream media in BC to the detriment of the public discourse and a level playing field.

“This is anti-democratic, they have tried to buy the media with your money. This is just another reason you can’t trust the Liberals, they have repeatedly lied, they have lied about the HST, they lied about the balancing the budget, and they tried to buy the media with a $65 million advertising campaign, but thankfully the public is not buying it.” Said James.

More information on Graeme James please go to: www.electgraeme.com.

For comment call Graeme James 250-762-2861.

The CBC story is here. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/25/wendy-mcleod-kelowna-radio-host-liberals_n_3157636.html?ir=Canada+British+Columbia