{"id":9091,"date":"2011-04-30T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:28:01","slug":"the-toronto-sun-goes-full-gonzo-on-jack-layton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/the-toronto-sun-goes-full-gonzo-on-jack-layton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toronto Sun<\/em> goes full gonzo on Jack Layton"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post, I was wondering if the mainstream media was going to give Jack Layton and the NDP the same kind of coverage that they had been devoting to the Liberal and Conservative campaigns. Instead of doing the same thing<\/em>, one of Toronto’s newspapers decided to channel their British tabloid counterparts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Jack Layton was found laying naked on a bed by Toronto Police at a suspected Chinatown bawdy house in 1996, a retired Toronto police officer told the Toronto Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The stunning revelation about the current leader of the New Democratic Party comes days before the federal election at a time when his popularity is soaring.<\/p>\n

When the policeman and his partner walked into a second-floor room at the Toronto massage parlour, they saw an attractive 5-foot-10 Asian woman who was in her mid-20s and the married, then-Metro councillor, lying on his back in bed.<\/p>\n

Layton was cautioned by police and released without being charged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So no crime was committed, no charges were laid, and it happened in 1996. Perfect time<\/em> to pull it out at the very end of an election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post, I was wondering if the mainstream media was going to give Jack Layton and the NDP the same kind of coverage that they had been devoting to the Liberal and Conservative campaigns. Instead of doing the same thing, one of Toronto’s newspapers decided to channel their British tabloid counterparts: Jack Layton […]<\/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":[6,28,53],"tags":[188,297,798,98],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-jacklayton","tag-ndp","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","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=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14135,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/14135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}