Deflector Spin

BaitAndSwitch
GordCoVille

Newscycle management is the cardinal rule of Rethuglican 'Information Domination' playbook.

And it looks like Gordon Campbell's BC Liberal government has taken that rule to heart.

Example 1: Remember how S-G John Les destroyed his own credibility while he ran out the clock on the child death issue for over a week before he dropped the 713 bomb yesterday.

Example 2: GordCo Inc. dropped the secret pay increase bomb on the very same day.

And quite a deflector bomb it was.

So, while 'The Number' ran above the fold on the front pages of newspapers and at the top of the newscasts this morning, ask yourself this.....

What do you see there now?

It sure as heck isn't dead children.

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What's worse, the deflector spin has worked so well that Carole James is now taking most of the heat.
Forgot to mention Rule #2: That the Rethugs always count on the fact that a great majority of mainstream journos will take their eyes off the ball to watch the shiny spin, by way of evidence feel free to tune in to M. Smyth's show on the notsoGiant 98 this evening.
Update, 7:40pm: And Dirk Meissner, from the Canadian Press, all but confirmed it on Smyth's show when he said he and his compatriots were all working away on the dead children story when they dropped everything after the pay raise bombsell was dropped.
DoubleSecretProbationUpdate: From the credit-where-credit-is-due dept. M. Smyth had children's champion Kathleen Stephany in hour two.

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