{"id":11302,"date":"2018-04-05T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2018-04-05T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:27:23","slug":"liberals-accuse-tories-of-hiding-doug-ford-from-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/uncategorized\/liberals-accuse-tories-of-hiding-doug-ford-from-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals accuse Tories of \u2018hiding\u2019 Doug Ford from reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s newly minted Progressive Conservative leader will not bring journalists with him on the campaign trail this spring, a rare move experts and critics say suggests the Tories are keen to keep the unpredictable populist politician out of the hot seat as he takes on two more seasoned rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Ford\u2019s team said Wednesday the former Toronto city councillor will not have a media bus following him as he criss-crosses the province ahead of the June election, an accommodation traditionally offered by Ontario\u2019s party leaders to facilitate coverage while they hold multiple daily events in different cities.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Melissa Lantsman said Ford\u2019s campaign events will be broadcast online and his itinerary will be released for media interested in covering them in person. \u201cMost media outlets have shifted to covering events from their office and relying on live feeds. It is in our interest to have as much media coverage as possible and will do everything we can to ensure our events are streamed online to assist in that,\u201d she said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s newly minted Progressive Conservative leader will not bring journalists with him on the campaign trail this spring, a rare move experts and critics say suggests the Tories are keen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Doug-Ford.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}