I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial expressions while they are writing, I can only imagine mine while I’m blogging. Her crack up at the revelation of
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Don Martin woes: When telling Dimitri Soudas and Bell boss to “go fuck yourselves” can get you suspended from CTV.
Don Martin: badass I would have loved to been a fly on the glass. I wonder how many free speech warriors from the right will race to Don Martin’s defence? Don Martin, the new Canadian hero. Speaking for the rest of us. Cross posted at Let Freedom . . .
Continue readingcmkl: Cut staff but not services? That’s unpossible
Now when I was a journalist, if someone made an assertion as daft as the one above, I would have left it out of the story just because it made no sense. But if you’re CTV, you apparently leave it as the lead.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Top General Nails CTV Reporter as Harper Mule
Oh, this is juicy. Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk saw the Harper government’s hand at work when CTV reporter Bob Fife got his hands on flight logs showing the general had used an armed forces Challenger jet to attend sporting events, the Calgary Stampede and to meet up
Continue readingCTV: Now Reporting Breaking News From July 2010!
Everyone has known about this for a long time. I have been out of the country for three years, and out of Ottawa for the better part of eight years, and I knew. There is no excuse, none, for failing to report on this before or during an ele…
Continue readingArt Threat: CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his reasons and his criticisms of the state of mainstream news in Canada on his blog Freedom 24 . His bold truth-telling hits to the core of how Canadian […]
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The State of Journalism
Thanks to Dr. Dawg for posting this link to an essay by Kai Nagata, who writes about why he recently quit his job as a reporter for CTV. His observations about the current state of television journalism are instructive, and will be of interest to anyon…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: CTV Quebec City Bureau Chief Kai Nagata Quits: Rips TV Journalism
In what is the most spectacular long blog post I’ve read from a TV personality ever, former Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata explains why he quit his job.This came to my attention via Fagstein’s blog which is a must read for all things relating to Q…
Continue readingJacked Up: Raitt-Gate
So the opposition want Lisa Raitt to resign over the fact that secret documents were left at CTV for almost a week. I can see the rationale, especially since Harper himself said that cabinet ministers would be held “personally accountable for the security of their staff and offices.” And that
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