That Annoying Twitter Access

I’ve seldom seen a journalist whine so much about politicians who are too accessible to the public. Look no further, you can find them in the Calgary Herald. Mayor Nenshi has even replied to a tweet from me, and I don’t even live in Calgary, so obviously he must be wasting time. Right, right? Ugh.

Heralds were originally messengers of kings. Now that kings can tweet directly/instantly to their followers, there is less of a role (or a different one) for Calgary Heralds to play.

ABMarkTaylor Mark Taylor
So @nenshi goes around media to reach taxpayers & media loses its narrative. Yep, they aren’t happy about it either.

Klassen, instead of explaining her new role as BS filter and tweet analyzer, takes it upon herself to chide people for participating directly in democracy in any way above voting every 3 years. The BS filter turned into the BS distributor, instead. This only further buries the obsolete Herald as they bemoan the glory days when they could control what the public heard kings say.

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Using Twitter today, I also had a direct democracy disagreement with a Sask Party supporter who does not understand how Occupy Wall Street is a pro-democracy movement, how it relates to the Arab Spring, or what the point of it even is. Despite denying knowing what the movement is for, he’s certain it’s not pro-democracy. Then he says that because the protesters don’t face a grave threat to their life, they are not standing up to tyranny.

Blaise Boehmer

@saskboy well, in Egypt they are protesting the very real threat of tyranny. OWS: not sure what they’re about.

Oh really? Even if you ignore the US Davis pepper spraying of peacefully sitting protesters, or the G20 sitting protesters who were rushed by violent police in Toronto, while the protesters sang O Canada, can you really say they don’t put a lot on the line by participating in political protests when many of their neighbours are wilfully blind to the reasons for democratic protest?

Do we honour veterans less for serving their country if they never saw combat? It’s not the violence we are supposed to admire, it’s their resolve to deliver a better, fairer, freer world to people they don’t even know. You can’t say OWS isn’t in the same cateogry, especially while you deny that you know what category OWS falls under.