Shirley Ford's letter to the Yukon News
Shirley Ford sent this letter to the Yukon News, but they haven't printed it yet, so your Blogress leaps into the breach!
The Editor, Yukon News,
Regarding Richard Mostyn’s article “Imagine tomorrow and sweat!”
The Yukon News made a brutal attempt to influence this election and went completely over the line. Is it right to print an editorial the Friday before the election on the front page encouraging people not to vote for the Yukon Party? I wonder how some of the people in Porter Creek South feel considering the riding was determined by only 6 votes?
Richard Mostyn said ‘We’ have decided that the Yukon Party does not deserve a second term. Who is ‘we’? Are Yukon News employees and reporters required to vote in a block? Or is he speaking about himself and the owners of the Yukon News, with their cozy ties to the Liberal Party. There’s a glimpse of their idea of ethics and accountability. Fair and balanced reporting during an election should be expected for the good of the Yukon. I wonder how the many small business people must feel who voted for the Yukon Party. They continually spend hundreds and thousands of dollars advertising in the Yukon News. They have to because the Yukon News virtually has a monopoly into the communities. Through past governments the News has secured sweetheart advertising deals for government ads (taxpayer money). Go figure. They are using your private sector and your government taxpayer advertising dollars to push their political agenda. Your own money is working against you.
The Yukon News has made its bed during the election, now they are going to have to lie in it. Imagine tomorrow, Mr. Mostyn, and sweat, because hopefully it will be with a lot less advertising dollars from the small business sector.
If the Yukon News is so intent on substantially influencing the outcome of an election, maybe its owners or the editor should run in an election or work hard for a candidate of their choice, like decent people do in a democracy.
Shirley Ford
Ford Farms, Whitehorse, Yukon, 633 4342
CORRECTION: Shirley tells me that the Yukon News DID carry this letter today. My apologies for the error. You must understand, though, that your Blogress does not read the Yukon News, and has not done so for many years. As a result, I am a happier and wiser person, along with the Prozac, of course.
The Editor, Yukon News,
Regarding Richard Mostyn’s article “Imagine tomorrow and sweat!”
The Yukon News made a brutal attempt to influence this election and went completely over the line. Is it right to print an editorial the Friday before the election on the front page encouraging people not to vote for the Yukon Party? I wonder how some of the people in Porter Creek South feel considering the riding was determined by only 6 votes?
Richard Mostyn said ‘We’ have decided that the Yukon Party does not deserve a second term. Who is ‘we’? Are Yukon News employees and reporters required to vote in a block? Or is he speaking about himself and the owners of the Yukon News, with their cozy ties to the Liberal Party. There’s a glimpse of their idea of ethics and accountability. Fair and balanced reporting during an election should be expected for the good of the Yukon. I wonder how the many small business people must feel who voted for the Yukon Party. They continually spend hundreds and thousands of dollars advertising in the Yukon News. They have to because the Yukon News virtually has a monopoly into the communities. Through past governments the News has secured sweetheart advertising deals for government ads (taxpayer money). Go figure. They are using your private sector and your government taxpayer advertising dollars to push their political agenda. Your own money is working against you.
The Yukon News has made its bed during the election, now they are going to have to lie in it. Imagine tomorrow, Mr. Mostyn, and sweat, because hopefully it will be with a lot less advertising dollars from the small business sector.
If the Yukon News is so intent on substantially influencing the outcome of an election, maybe its owners or the editor should run in an election or work hard for a candidate of their choice, like decent people do in a democracy.
Shirley Ford
Ford Farms, Whitehorse, Yukon, 633 4342
CORRECTION: Shirley tells me that the Yukon News DID carry this letter today. My apologies for the error. You must understand, though, that your Blogress does not read the Yukon News, and has not done so for many years. As a result, I am a happier and wiser person, along with the Prozac, of course.
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