The Metroland group of newspapers who own the Wasaga Sun, Stayner Sun, Collingwood Connection, and Alliston Herald will be releasing who they plan on endorsing as our next MPP in Simcoe Grey.
I suspect they will like they did in 2007 endorse PC, Jim Wilson. I also suspect that in their endorsement they will say that Wilson is such a hard working MPP who gets results while his party is not in power at Queens Park. Is it not the job of any MPP to get and deliver results for the riding they were elected to serve?
I've had my battles over the years with Metroland, and most recently it was during the Municipal Election when the Managing Editor, and General Manager who don't even live in Wasaga Beach endorsed the status quo, and guess what the status quo were all re-elected. What also got me was that Wasaga Beach had the lowest voter turnout in all of Simcoe County, and every other town in the area had a change in local government except for Wasaga Beach. Anyway that's the past, and while every "Community Paper" is allowed to endorse any candidate they want, I also feel that they should not be in the endorsement business.
A true "Community Paper" like the Enterprise Bulletin in Collingwood does not endorse any one candidate in any election. They report the news, and let the voters decide who they should vote for. Another news source in the south end of the riding, http://www.madhunt.com/ also don't offer any endorsements. They also report the news, and let the voters decided. Maybe the Metroland Group of Local Rags could learn a thing or two from the EB in the North and madhunt.com in the South.
An endorsement should not be based on who spends the most money with your newspaper, or on-line version, it should be based on the parties platform, the strength of the candidate, and what he/she has done and could do if elected as the next MPP. I would be very shocked if they don't endorse Jim Wilson, but these days I don't get shocked that easy.
Until next time!
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