Thread by @downtownrob88

The Toronto Star newsroom joins the growing ©ClusterFord of formerly reliable newspapers that have succumbed to the confounding allure of a Ford administration (and pressure from new, true blue owners, NordStar Capital). A May 9 poll projecting a one-seat majority victory ../2

...for DoFo was heralded as tracking to a majority win, three weeks ahead of the vote and before the 2 leaders' debates had even taken place. That two fewer seats would see Ford defeated on the floor of the legislature in Sept/22 was not conveyed to readers;

Northern .../3

...Ontario journalism's pro-Doug Ford bias is on full display following Debate No. 1, as Village Media, publisher of 23 titles in the region and in the southwest, offered slanted news coverage of the May 10 North Bay wordfest: "Ford put on an impressive performance. He stuck ../4

...to his talking points and carried himself exactly the same way he has in his 4 years in power. He rolled with the punches from each side as Horwath and Del Duca doubled up with the barbs questioning his record, including criticism of Ford's handling of aspects of the.../5

...Covid pandemic — an assertion he pushed back on immediately."

The chain's newspapers in Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and Elliot Lake ran identical pieces with the same quote, as did 2 other titles, Newstrend 365 and Latest Active News;

May 24, Ford mocked Global's Sean.../6

...O'Shea in an impromptu, confrontational interview where he was being challenged on his donor invoicing scam from Aug/21. Doug’s henchmen then roughed up @ConsumerSOS on camera, the evasive premier irked that the dogged O'Shea had tracked him down.../7

In a typically ham-handed move from the crew boss of Ford Nation, Con operatives have resurrected their in-house, faux-news reporting team, the Ontario News Network, ostensibly to subvert the role of the press in the political process;

Ford was a staff pundit on Rebel TV../8

...the Christofascist-friendly, Fox News clone that at the time employed Postmedia's Brian Lilley and Gavin McInnes, founder of the hate group, the "Proud Boys";

Postmedia's Ottawa Citizen breaks ranks with its libertarian media colleagues in an Apr 2, 2022 editorial.../9

... demanding Ford/Elliott/Moore resurrect Covid mandates and stop "harping on about living with Covid and returning to normal."

The Toronto Star's Bruce Arthur joins in on Apr 4: "It appears Ontario doesn't care who gets infected and what happens, as long as people can../10

...walk around without masks and the hospitals don’t bleed into the streets."

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#CLUSTERFORD

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