Terrance Heath produces an excellent piece on the American ‘Tea Party’ movement brought to life by the Koch brothers and other plutocrats and apparatchiks. Is The Tea Party Over? Maybe. – published by The Campaign for America’s Future :
“It’s always s…
Tag: Journalism
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberal scorn for sustainability
Before joining the Vancouver Sun, Fazil Mihlar was Senior Policy Analyst at The Fraser Institute. In his years with the newspaper’s editorial board, Mihlar has continued to serve philosophical goals of the reactionary foundations that finance his for…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Citizen Journalist Charles Leblanc Arrested for Protesting on a Megaphone
Freedom of Speech at Issue
Two videos from Leblanc’s blog.
First a detailed and interesting report on the situation shown on CBC in New Brunswick. Second Leblanc’s own video, showing his arrest.
It brings to mind an encounter I had …
Continue readingbastard.logic: Johann Hari Vs. Johann Hari On The Ethics Of Making Sh!t Up
by matttbastard Johann Hari, September 2011: “If I had asked the many experienced colleagues I have here at The Independent… they would have explained just how wrong I was. It was arrogant and stupid of me not to ask.” Indeed … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: He suffers annoyance and anger
When taking aim at individuals on this blog, I try to avoid false assertions. Readers may argue with my analyses and opinions but I intend those to be based on verifiable data. In comments, fairly wide range is allowed because readers know to be wary o…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: CTV Spins the Daily Show for Tarsands and Farmed Fish
I finally got around to watching the Labour Day episode of the Daily Show, a repeat from August 18, 2011. Its first segment was about Warren Buffett’s New York Times editorial about why the rich should be paying more in taxes. But CTV chose to air two commercials directly before the Daily Show: pure spin […]
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Globe editorial by confounded ideologue
The Globe and Mail presented an editorial this week that appears to be written by a confounded ideologue seconded from a Toronto high school paper. It really is the most appalling example of careless ignorance and misunderstanding. Coming from a sour…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Global TV’s strange news priorities
It was a busy news day Sunday so British Columbia’s self described source for news, weather, traffic, events and features did not have time to report on the rising tide criticizing Gordon Campbell’s Ordure of British Columbia award.
The 11pm Global …
Continue readingCo2 Art: TODAY’S SUNSHINE SHILL – New Co2 Art Feature
As Canadian journalism transforms from the rudderless, so-called objective ideals of people whose typewriters could almost be heard from the barrooms they so often frequented, into today’s slick new, well-oiled communications arm of the global petroleu…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: They won big but it’s still not enough
Forty years ago, American (and, by logical extension, Canadian) business worried about future survival of free enterprise. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce commissioned Lewis Powell, later a Nixon appointed Supreme Court Judge, to report on the crisis an…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: "The corporate coup is over – they won"
In politics today, trolls live in the sewers of think-tanks, communications firms, corporate media, old-line political parties and government ministry offices. They provide material to fill the airwaves and pages of the press with absurdities. So-calle…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Your application to express opinion is denied
Globe and Mail editorial, August 26/11, Licensing journalists in Quebec would stifle press freedom
“A licensing system for journalists being discussed in Quebec is a form of press regulation that would put limits on the free flow of information.
“The…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Agreeing with Ezra Levant?
I happen to agree with Ezra Levant today. Only in part. Here’s a piece on Quebec’s desire to license journalists. The government of Quebec wants to licence journalists. Christine St-Pierre, its minister of culture and communications, thinks it just ain’t right there aren’t controls over people like me. Or, more to the point, people like […]
Continue reading@cityslikr lights @SueAnnLevy up like a pinball machine
(With an apology to pinball machines everywhere.)That @cityslikr fella can be wonderfully succinct sometimes. I retweeted this earlier, but it deserves a whole blog post.Word. If you’re ever curious about why so many of our fellow citizens seem ruled b…
Continue readingBCL catches @SueAnnLevy rewriting history, smearing brave firefighters
BigCityLib Strikes Back: In Case You ARE WonderingDon’t know why BCL isn’t on the Tweeter, but that’s up to him. In the meantime, seems the Venomous LoserTM is perfectly happy to use Toronto’s firefighters and their taxpayer-funded equipment as a …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: News of the World, Kai Nagata & the Omnibus Crime Bill
No, this isn’t a game of “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others”, ‘though I’m sure to suffer from the catchy tune playing in a loop in my head for the next several hours. Trust me, it’s more like a game of Tri Bond. If you have been off planet, embedded in an […]
Continue readingCo2 Art: Murdoch-Fox Journalism is not Postmodern, it is Dishonest
Canadians were taken by surprise a month ago by the sudden resignation of CTV Quebec City Bureau Chief, Kai Nagata.
“Nagata’s personal experience is an in-the-flesh example of how the adoption of economic values and assumptions, this time in the TV …
Continue readingOn that whole Nycole Turmel thing …
While we’re on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They’ve already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan’s post on the Media Failure Two-Step. (And actually I co…
Continue readingeaves.ca: Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months knows I’m excited about BuzzData. This week, while still in limited access beta, the site is showing hints its potential – and it still has […]
Continue readingArt Threat: How the audience disillusions itself
As the UK deals with the phone hacking scandal, Canada is also pondering the role of its mass media, thanks to a CTV bureau chief publicly expressing his disgust at the business after he quit his job. The two instances are related because at the heart of both is an audience that devours pure information.
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