"is the Media a Bully" by Gerry Nicholls

The article "Is the Media a Bully" by Gerry Nicholls which was published on the Canada Free press on April 29, 2013, claims that the media is not innocent or morally good when it comes to criticizing politician maleness or looks. His article contains many examples of the use of connotation for the purposes of supporting his thesis which is that, when it comes to politicians the media portrays then in an unfair way. His article also drags attention to many flaws on how the media can influence people into believing unrealistic ideas such as stereotyping politician, and how they can be biased in how they want the public to portray certain politicians they like from those they do not like.

Although the author presents many examples of current news to prove his point about how the media has been negative towards politicians, however, I will argued that his argument is only focuses on one side of the story. He does not present or acknowledge the media having some truth to their claims. For instance, he mentions on his article that, recently a campaign by the Conservative party was intended to "plant doubts in the minds of voters about Trudeau's manliness". I believe Nicholls is accusing the media of the way conservative portrays Trudeau which the media has nothing to do with, that is how the conservative party wants the public to view him. Trudeau is very young and handsome and it is no doubt that his looks enhance his popularity.