As such, he has all the privileges that media have. Sihota was banned from a government press conference last week, the conference in which they announced all of those job cuts and stuff. Why was he banned? They still consider him a politician. He's officially quit the NDP party, his paycheques are being written by a television station and he's still considered a politician? What is this all about? There are many journalists who previously were politicians. Most well known is radio broadcaster Rafe Mair. None of these other journalists got banned. A person has a right to change careers without their old career hanging like an albatross around their neck, don't you think?

If Campbell feels that he can selectively block whichever media people he wants from his press conferences.....well, that sets a dangerous precedent doesn't it? Anybody who ever said anything bad about the Campbell government, or who held views that might make them liable to say something bad......could be banned. The media would turn into nothing more than a mouthpiece for the government. Akin to newspapers in the Soviet Union during the Cold War or something. It's a slippery slope that the Liberals are on. And it's far from the only one they're on.