Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, “Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics” in Gary Levy and Graham White, editors, Provincial and territorial legislatures in Canada, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1989) Those who write about the relationship between
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The New Colonialists #nlpoli
The New Colonialistsdon’t look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people, which, as the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in its final report, “were a systematic, government-sponsored attempt to destroy
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Saltwire laid off a hundred or so people last week, 25 of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. The most recent cuts are the result of revenue drops due to COVID but Saltwire has been hacking and slashing at its operations across the region since buying up a raft of dailies
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How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the success of those measures reduces the local daily number of active cases either to zero or to a handful and hence the threat appears to have
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“Deep Dive” is the name that Saltwire gives to its new series that is supposed to give readers supposed to give readers more information on specific topics that are of concern across the Atlantic Canada. The series gives Saltwire a way to produce unique content using all its resources in Atlantic Canada, thereby
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If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation, is it spin, bias, or just a mistake? That’s the logical question out of last week’s post on the way local newsrooms had reported a recent political poll
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You know what “spin” is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin when someone uses an interpretation of an event or information in order to modify the perception of an issue or event, particularly to either increase or decrease
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Now that Muskrat Falls is officially a boondoggle, all sorts of people are rushing forward to criticise it. Others are also rushing forward to ensure we all know that they were on the side of the angels back in the day and so, as Brian Jones pleads this weekend in
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The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There’s nothing surprising in that. Most conventional news organisations produce some amount of pure nonsense in the course of a year. The crap content level varies from outlet to outlet and the people who
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Last Saturday, this headline (left) in the Telegram prompted a storm of outrage from people who thought that it placed the blame for a sexual assault on the victim. The words were essentially what the victim had said during her testimony in the trial. They were also a more blunt
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Last Saturday, this headline (left) in the Telegram prompted a storm of outrage from people who thought that it placed the blame for a sexual assault on the victim. The words were essentially what the victim had said during her testimony in the trial. They were also a more blunt
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Mythical Golden Age of Newfoundland News #nlpoli
Ray Guy, on the endless search for truth in local newsrooms (circa 1974): Sometimes you get the feeling that the newsrooms of the city are as divorced from reality as the earth is distant from the sun. Their almost exclusive stock-in-trade has become the reports of speeches, seminars, election campaigns, council
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Ray Guy, on the endless search for truth in local newsrooms (circa 1974): Sometimes you get the feeling that the newsrooms of the city are as divorced from reality as the earth is distant from the sun. Their almost exclusive stock-in-trade has become the reports of speeches, seminars, election campaigns, council
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Truth and something else was clearly in the atmosphere this week as the Telegram’s Russell Wangersky offered a few thoughts on the subject in his Tuesday column. But if we reach a point where anything true can be discounted, and anything false can be announced as true, where do we go to ensure
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Truth and something else was clearly in the atmosphere this week as the Telegram’s Russell Wangersky offered a few thoughts on the subject in his Tuesday column. But if we reach a point where anything true can be discounted, and anything false can be announced as true, where do we go to ensure
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Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship. That’s why a great many journalists, troubled at the decline of their industry, emphasise the importance of trust in re-establishing a solid relationship between the news media and the folks who used to be their captive market. Canadian and American news media
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Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship. That’s why a great many journalists, troubled at the decline of their industry, emphasise the importance of trust in re-establishing a solid relationship between the news media and the folks who used to be their captive market. Canadian and American news media
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Captain Sweatpants and the future of news media #nlpoli
The numbers are so large they take your breath away. In a poll conducted for The Public Policy Forum for its recent report on Canadian news media, eight “out of 10 respondents said they actively follow the news (with education, not age, being the main determinant).” As pollster Allan Gregg noted
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The numbers are so large they take your breath away. In a poll conducted for The Public Policy Forum for its recent report on Canadian news media, eight “out of 10 respondents said they actively follow the news (with education, not age, being the main determinant).” As pollster Allan Gregg noted
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Classroom Jungle #nlpoli
CBC aired the first of three half hour programs on Monday night featuring a bunch of teachers talking about problems in the Newfoundlandand Labrador school system. The rest will come along over the next couple of weeks. To be perfectly clear, CBC claims ownership of the programs but, by the
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