Asshats With Podiums Make Demands, More at 11.

The cool cats at ProgressiveBloggers have started to rally the troops behind Status of Women Canada, a crown agency that, shockingly, Real Women Canada thinks the tories should axe.

The real issue, though, is not that a socially conservative organization is trying to get a mildly socially conservative government to restrict an organization designed to improve the lot of Women, its that this is yet another situation where the news is focusing on what Bloggers are writing about something rather than focusing on the actual matter.

From the story:

The campaign was kickstarted by REAL Women of Canada, one of Canada's most vocal organizations of social conservatives. It has long urged the federal government to axe Status of Women - but this time its message is being widely discussed and supported among some in the Conservative Internet community.

So, that REAL Women is forwarding the notion is not really news, but I will grant that it is relevant now that they are likely making a renewed push given the change in government. It is not news that a bunch of people on the Internet are agreeing with them. Even if it was, it should not be at the top of the story, before you actually have a comment from the organization behind the initiative.

So, in true idiotsphere fashion, I snidely offer the Canadian Press potential other issues to follow up on:

1. Apparently, Toronto Sports Talk Radio still thinks that the Senators "don't have enough heart".
2. Lunchroom conversation at the local high school seems to think that the new girl is "trying too hard to be popular."
3. Macleans really seems to want to get HBO.
4. Posters on Pitchfork think that the music you listen to sucks.

(I am aware of the profound irony of blogging about the overemphasis placed on blogging.)