We need a new phrase today for when the media lose their collective minds flogging a story beyond death as Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher are doing.
If you thought their last piece (see here) was garbage, take a look at the spew that the Ottawa Citizen ran today:
A training manual used by call-centre workers soliciting donations for the Conservative Party outlines high-pressure tactics designed to overcome the objections of pensioners, widowers and the unemployed to raise money for the party. (see here)
My advice to this call-centre, put a very good lock on your garbage dumpster.
