I have been disappointed by the News Group papers and their coverage of the local elections. I would have thought they are the one media outlet that would have looked into all the candidates, examined their platforms and given the public the information that is needed to make an informed decision tomorrow.
The Victoria News, Saanich News, Oak Bay News, Peninsula News Review, Goldstream News Gazette and the Sooke Mirror are the local papers that go into almost every mail slot in the city. They are focused on covering the local communities. So why are they not doing a lot more on the elections?
Langford has a very contentious election going on, I went to read more about it all on the Goldstream Gazette and found very little.
Victoria has 35 people running for council, two of them that do not even live in this area. Why has the Victoria News not investigated the background of the candidates? Why are they not focusing attention on the most serious candidates and letting us know about them?
The only local paper that has done some reasonable coverage has been Monday Magazine.
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The NEWS Group papers are not doing any real coverage because they are not real newspapers. They are simply vehicles to deliver advertising and flyers to local residents. There was a glimmer of hope during the T-C strike a couple of years ago where it looked like they might actually try to compete as a real news source. Sadly they gave up when the strike was over.
The OB News has done a decent amount of coverage here. I agree it is not great, but from the perspective of a candidate not running in Victoria, everything else has been useless, including the much vaunted Monday Magazine.
If you are only looking online, you have to click through a link that says civic elections in order to see election stories. Our local paper on the peninsula has done a good job of covering Central Saanich and North Saanich and Sidney.
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