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HOME November 24, 2010 The Magazine | Digital Edition | Subscribe | Newsletters My Toronto Life: Sign In | Register | Settings | Contests By night she helps organize parties and fundraising events for her sorority. In her spare time she tends to the books for the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s soccer club. And on occasion she finds time for the odd tennis match. The discerning mediavore’s take on the news of the day, from city hall to Power Ball To passersby she’s just another sophomore at one of the world’s most prestigious business schools. To those who know her on campus, she’s not Canadian royalty but the sporty outgoing sorority girl who carries her weight in a backpack filled with economics text books. No, really, stop the presses. This entire article reads like a regrettable mistake. Not serial-killer-on-the-front-page regrettable, but from beginning to end it’s clear the only reason this girl’s face is being put in the paper is that she’s Trudeau’s daughter―as if that made it self-explanatory. This morning’s Toronto Star has a huge front-page exclusive: Pierre Trudeau was a bit of a ladies’ man. No, we haven’t travelled back in time to 1971. And yes, the former prime minister had a daughter out of wedlock. The Star apparently did a Google search and found out where she’s going to school, investigated, then published its findings under the headline “Pierre Trudeau’s daughter, Sarah, lives under the radar.” Not anymore, eh, Star? A brief sample of the kind of news that can be found only in the pages of Canada’s largest daily: ??Pierre Trudeau’s daughter, Sarah, lives under the radar [Toronto Star] 2 Comments Anyone can be forgiven for wishing for the era when our politicians were charismatic, exciting and impossible to ignore (these days, top reporters talk about how important apathy is to contemporary politics),nfl jerseys cheap, but blowing a private person’s life all over the front page for little apparent reason isn’t going to bring those days back,throwback jerseys, folks. Mediaocracy Tweet Advertisement Teenagers have iPhones? Stop the presses. |
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