{"id":13395,"date":"2012-02-04T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2012-02-04T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:27:43","slug":"fake-the-oath-to-become-the-new-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/fake-the-oath-to-become-the-new-jumped-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fake the oath&#8221; to become the new &#8220;Jump the shark&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/02\/04\/chris-selley-sun-news-citizenship-scandal-is-meaningless\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Selley<\/a> wonders why anyone outside the Ottawa media bubble would care about the Sun Media (or as Paul Wells usually spells it in his tweets, &#8220;Sun Meida&#8221;) faking the citizenship ceremony for a TV broadcast:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do it. We can fake the Oath.\u201d That is the universally accepted money quote, courtesy of a Sun News producer, to come out of this week\u2019s fracas involving the fledgling cable news network, the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration and a citizenship ceremony that wasn\u2019t quite what it seemed. On Oct. 19, during Citizenship Week, Sun viewers were told they were watching 10 people become Canadian citizens. Instead they were watching 10 citizens, six of whom were federal bureaucrats, <em>reaffirm<\/em> their Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to all of the new Canadians here,\u201d co-host Alex Pierson gushed. \u201cTen of you here at Sun News Network, finally Canadian citizens!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFake the Oath\u201d certainly has the ring of legend. I think it could be to the Canadian media what \u201cjump the shark\u201d is to situation comedy. An example: \u201cOh for God\u2019s sake, [insert media outlet], a talking dog on YouTube is news now? You guys have finally faked the Oath!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But having gone through the documents behind this story, which were obtained by Canadian Press through Access to Information, I\u2019m struggling to understand the amount of coverage this story got. Well, OK, I <em>sort of<\/em> understand it: Pointing and laughing at Sun Media is a national pastime among journalists and liberals these days. What I can\u2019t figure out is how this <em>matters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Selley wonders why anyone outside the Ottawa media bubble would care about the Sun Media (or as Paul Wells usually spells it in his tweets, &#8220;Sun Meida&#8221;) faking the citizenship ceremony for a TV broadcast: \u201cLet\u2019s do it. We can fake the Oath.\u201d That is the universally accepted money quote, courtesy of a Sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,28],"tags":[213,413,101],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","tag-newspapers","tag-scandal","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3u3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}