The Daily Gleaner’s blind bias to all things green
Somebody give Fredericton skateboarder Lee Breen a media relations job. The guy is brilliant.
By tossing around the word “green” as his defence for getting a ticket for breaking the law by riding his skateboard on the street, he’s bamboozled the media so much that they have barely looked at the issue of whether riding a skateboard on the streets of Fredericton which have no bike lanes is a safety issue.
The Daily Gleaner has been downright fawning over the issue giving him a big thumbs up in their editorial section and a back page splash feature. The feature on Breen on Saturday I could understand. It’s solely a feature interview and there is no need to show the other side I suppose.
Today though they more or less regurgitate the same interview into a front page story without any other perspective?!?
If you think the by-laws should be changed or you think Breen is a hero that’s fine but this is still lousy journalism from a number of media outlets with the Daily Gleaner leading the pack. Come on folks, you can do better than that and at least offer up a balanced story regardless of your personal view.
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The city's reason is of course open to debate naturally but there is another side to the story. That side is suspiciously absent in most media coverage of this issue. It's great if you're Lee Breen or anyone supporting him because the media has clearly taken his side. That doesn't take away from it being poor from a journalistic point of view.