Ronan O'Beirne was the Blog Editor for the Spring 2014 issue of Ryerson Review of Journalism. Rob Ford’s poll numbers and the convenient narrative
Nearly as shocking as Toronto police chief Bill Blair’s press conference last week were the results of a poll which suggested that Mayor Rob Ford’s approval ratings had gone…up? Yes—from 39 percent to 44 percent, according to a poll conducted by Forum Research a few hours after Blair’s press conference. This counterintuitive bump has been […]
‘It’s real, and Ford is in it’: did the Star spike the football?
“We do not have a vendetta against Mayor Ford,” Toronto Star editor-in-chief Michael Cooke told the Ontario Press Council in September. “We simply don’t.” Does Cooke’s boss know that? On page two of Friday’s Star, publisher John Cruickshank high-stepped into the end zone, taking shots at the mayor, his brother and the “Ford acolytes” who […]
