Breaking news! Time magazine names The Silence Breakers of the #metoo movement the Person the Year in 2017. The Canadian Press names the movement itself the top news story of the same year. It looks, for a moment, like a triumph of empathy for women, one which could pave the
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Canadian Dimension: Media’s formulaic approach to terror attacks ignores roots of violence
Photo from Public Domain In Canada, thanks to saturation coverage in mainstream and social media, mention of the June 3 terrorist attacks on London Bridge will forever call up the innocent face of 30-year-old Christine Archibald, of Castlegar, B.C. She died, we were told over and over, on the bridge
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Castro coverage shows fake news is ubiquitous
Photo by NBC Miami Perhaps the biggest media story of 2016 was the overdue discovery of fake news: totally manufactured information slickly packaged as journalism. Getting a lot less attention was the story that real news can be fake news, too, and often is. As the Huffington Post points out,
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