Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Nick Falvo discusses the unfortunate theory that any talk of improving standards of living for the neediest Canadians is either fruitless or extreme politically:In reference to the Put Food In The Budget cam…
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David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Is WordFest muzzling a popular author to keep the Calgary Herald happy? Sure sounds like it
Brian Brennan, at left, on the picket line during the Calgary Herald lockout and strike in 1999. Behind him, in the centre of the photo, is Canadian author Margaret Atwood, a strong supporter of the unionized Herald journalists’ goals in the labour d…
Continue readingMediabuzzard.com: Nobody does terrorism quit like an Arab/Muslim
At least according to Macleans contributor Colby Cosh … Breivik employed the Palestinian logic, hitherto almost unknown amongst Western-style spree killers (though implemented at Columbine), of the delayed second attack that specifically takes advantage of the chaos of the first. Indeed, he seems to have contemplated a third attack by
Continue readingTrashy's World: Canada’s right – many are narrow minded and reactive hypocrites
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada. Yesterday, when the news broke about the tragedy in Norway, the response by many in the Twitterverse, blogosphere and in the comments sections of news […]
Continue readingTerahertz: On the Oslo blasts
By now you’re probably aware of the explosion and subsequent shooting that happened today (yesterday there?) in Oslo, Norway. If not, go read then come back. Going off the details that are undisputed as of now, a bomb was set off in downtown Oslo, near the government buildings and later a man dressed as a […]
Continue readingwmtc: toronto’s ford brothers: does a true word ever leave their mouths?
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven’t seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization agenda never let the facts get in the way of their profit-driven ideolog…
Continue readingImpolitical: Murdochs in the dock – highlights
Highlights from the Murdoch family’s and Rebekah Brooks’ testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let them down, the buck stops down the chain….
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Media Madness & Politics
Getting out of the media mess created by our mainstream monopolies will be a real challenge. But we have to try.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fight Fox
It’s the crime story of the decade, and maybe as important as Wikileaks. Help take down News Corp. to limit the power of Murdoch. The following is an email from Avazz: – Wow! In just a few days almost 10000 of us have donated to take on Murdoch’s global media empire! Let’s turn the scandal […]
Art 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.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: News of the World Whistle Blower Found Dead
Sean Hoare – the whistle blower who exposed the News of the World scandal – has been found dead.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: "I invested in a company called News Corp .." "Dad, that’s Fox!" "Argh! Undo, undo!"
Funny line from the 1999 Simpsons episode “Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo” but it got terribly serious today with one of the whistle blowers being found dead and PM David Cameron cutting short a visit to South Africa (presumably in part to honour Nelso…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper’s inexplicable warnings about Canada’s eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper is really just taking the logical nex…
Continue readingeaves.ca: The Audacity of Shaw: How Canada’s Internet just got Worse
It is really, really, really hard to believe. But as bad as internet access is in Canada, it just got worse. Yesterday, Shaw Communications, a Canadian telecommunications company and internet service provider (ISP) that works mostly in Western Canada announced they are launching Movie Club, a new service to compete with Netflix. On the surface […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Brooks is not the victim here
Why was Rebekah Brooks made to fall on her own sword? What happened to the buck stops here (meaning it’s the ownership of the paper, not the editors, who take responsibility)? Isn’t the Murdoch family who should give up Ne…
Continue readingwmtc: walkom: we sent our soldiers to die to impress our largest trading partner
This is probably the strongest truth-telling about Canada’s experience in Afghanistan – and the revolting response to it at home – that I have seen in the mainstream media. Thank you, Thomas Walkom! On Tuesday, Canada officially ended its combat missio…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On surprising standards
I’m sure Terence Corcoran thinks he’s making a brilliant sarcastic point of some sort. But ideology aside, is there actually any reason to disagree in the slightest with his portrayal of the Guardian’s take on the NotW scandal?And we have The Guardian,…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Now don’t slam me for saying this!
The Heritage robot, James Moore, has said that the CBC isn’t immune to Strategic and Operating Review cuts – and this has the Twittersphere et al squawking mightily. While I do strongly support the MotherCorp, I don’t see any reason why it should be immune from the same review that my and all government Departments […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: BREAKING: Rupert throws in towel
The BBC has just reported, as I am writing this, that Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is giving up its bid for total control of BSkyB (he presently has a 39% stake in the DTH satellite company and its stable of news and sports channels). &…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Media Matters Petition for Congressional Review of Murdoch
Help Media Matters petition for a Congressional review of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and manipulation of the public.
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