It is bad
enough, having served four years as opposition leader, that Dwight Ball arrived
on the eighth floor unaware the province is in a fiscal crisis!
Now, he has
awakened a sleepy public and a media normally preoccupied at this time of year
with the circumference and depth of pot holes and whether they are swimmable.
The media’s rapturous
embrace of the mundane took a turn these past few weeks and it is damn good to
see.
Their
special access to the Nalcor leadership, accommodating for the most compliant
reporters, likely won’t have the same currency, now. All will be on point, at
least for a while.
Perhaps they
sense a change in what consumers of news are interested; whatever the reason the
travails of Dwight Ball, and public knowledge of them, are connected to this
new focus.
The public
are angry and they should be, even if they and their petit business, municipal,
and institutional leadership must share the blame for the mess we are in.
It is high time
manifest corruption and a government in disarray and going broke should occupy
a persistent presence on the front pages.
The Premier is
rightfully in everyone’s crosshairs.
