What's that... just a little "too real?" This is why you and the rest of the dead tree media are going bankrupt. The people who want to hear about skateboarding Prime Ministers, the Kardashian sisters or a gentle "redeemed" terrorist have the attention span of a half-starved Jack Russell terrier. Why buy magazine subscriptions when you can get all that Twilight fan-fiction on the internet for free?
So, take your frolicking non-denominational unicorns and your magic "Imagine All the People" fairy dust and pound it up your jihadi-friendly, omni-gendered pleasure portal.
This is the world now.
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But, back to Macleans magazine...
For those of you who spent the last month living in a cave in Tora-Bora..."This week in Maclean’s, Lindhout writes about how this uncommon bond came to be, and how horrific personal tragedies drew these three into a close, unlikely friendship."Funny, there's not a word about the searing personal tragedy of Tabitha Speer, the widow of the special forces medic Omar Khadr admitted murdering.
"He told the court no one had forced him to change his pleas. When asked if he had killed Speer in 2002, Khadr answered, quietly, "Yes." When asked if it was true that he conspired with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, he also answered "Yes.""This puff piece in Macleans is precisely the sort of mushy media narrative that helped install Prime Minister Care Bear.
You truly do deserve the type of government you get.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"The 4th estate has become the 5th column"There it is.