So many myths
The utterly hopeless John Ibbitson writes in Saturday's edition of the utterly hopeless Globe and Mail:
The myth of Newfoundland, like so many nationalist myths, jars with reality. The province is, for one thing, more urban than rural, with half the population now living in or near St. John’s.Speaking of myths that jar with reality, HALF THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCE DOES NOT LIVE IN OR NEAR ST. JOHN'S!
Could whoever keeps telling this lie to Toronto journalists — or to themselves, for that matter — please stop doing so? Just stop it.
Labels: demographics, media monitoring, mythbusting
posted by WJM @ 2:44 PM
4 Comments:
Ibbitson is full of crap. That ought to be obvious but it needed to be said again.
The myth is not the rural/urban bit. The fantasy factory is the one that presumes that the townie anti-Confederate ideology that Williams exploited to such an extent is in fact in any dimension true.
Of course, his readers aren't interested in anything more than what he learned by staying at the same hotel as all the other safari jounrnalists and speaking to people for five or 10 minutes.
But then again, the same people who believe the myths he presumes to debunk will lvoe the fact he came and that he wrote nice things about them. After all, they judge their own value by what people like Ibbitson print in their newspaper.
I cannot think of a more pathetic thing than to tie my self-esteem to a guy who can't count.
Has there been any shift in population since your analysis from 2006?
Not a shift that would make the statement "the province is, for one thing, more urban than rural, with half the population now living in or near St. John’s." anywhere near true, nope.
If only Danny resonated in Forteau!!
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