The Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt on the realities of political journalism on Parliament Hill these days. She got into it by using the anecdote of a soccer game between MPs and parliamentary reporters.

Christie Blatchford expresses disdain for the media feeding frenzy that engulfed Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt over a five-month-old tape recording of a private, candid moment in which Raitt referred to the medical isotopes file as "sexy."