When the Liberal campaign started journos had a question and a follow up. Follow ups are important because often politicians don't answer the initial question. Now LPC is telling reporters one question each with no follow up, or q & follow but not everyone gets a question #Elxn44
The Liberals have a hard 20 minutes on the media availability each day - that has been consistent since the beginning of the campaign. Media are on that plane with the explicit purpose of access to the leader and to cover the campaign. This is making it much harder to do that.
This is also a continuation of what the Liberal government was doing during the pandemic - the only way to be sure you got a question was to show up in person but there was only *one* follow up for all of the reporters there.
The choice was to show up in person and make sure you got a question and try to be the one journo who gets a follow, or call in and hope the political staff choosing who would ask questions would select you and you'd get a question and a follow up.
Bureau Chiefs in the gallery have expressed concerns about limited access in recent months - which was initially a factor of pandemic restrictions.
Anyhow, if you were watching to the media availability just now you heard journalists loudly complaining about this and asking for another question. Travelling media raising concerns about the access they are getting and the ability to ask important questions.
Also for folks who don't know, media organizations pay to be on the plane so that we can have access and ask questions.
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