We obviously recognize that politicians have a duty to be responsible in the comments they make.
That said, do you not get the impression that journalism today, as it has evolved over the past 20 or 30 years, with the live coverage that CNN has introduced, among other things, means that journalists probably spend much less time doing research? The work takes place in real time, as it were, in close proximity to the events being covered, which leaves little time to check sources in certain cases, particularly in conflict situations.
Do you feel that journalists themselves are contributing to the fact that people have slightly less trust in the news media? I do acknowledge that politicians have to be careful about the language they use when talking about news media, particularly CBC/Radio-Canada, but do you think that journalists should take a good hard look at themselves and their practices in order to restore citizens' trust?