Here's a great story at CBC. What's great about it is that Daniel Leblanc and Laurence Martin, or perhaps their editor, were able to present the corporate/government spin while simultaneously undermining it.
The corporatist view is obviously self-serving bullshit. There's a vacation wonderland in the foothills of the Laurentians. People who matter have million dollar cottages in the area. But the area has shitty internet, which, as you can imagine, doesn't cut the mustard with people who matter.
So the government pushed through and funded a pilot project in conjunction with Bell to bring fibre-optic cable to the area, and oddly enough, turns out that Bell CEO Mirko Bibic is one of the people who matter with a cottage there!
And that, Leblanc and Martin assure us, with what I thought was a nudge and a wink, was pure happenchance, completely beyond reproach, absolutely 100% just a happy coincidence!
No it wasn't. That's just how shit works.
