(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…
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Another blow for Fox News North. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets brag about Fox News North’s ‘walloping’ of its news rivals on certain days, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel in future days. This October, the network will lose its free access; it will only be seen …
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 readingOh Mr. Nicholls! I Do Believe Your Freudian Slip is Showing!
Oh, Mr. Gerry Nicholls, what have you done?
Do you live or work in an Ivory Tower, completely isolated from any sense of reality?
I know I don’t live in an Ivory Tory, but perhaps you do? And so do most of those living in the Sun Media Batcave and their readers it . . . → Read More: Oh Mr. Nicholls! I Do Believe Your Freudian Slip is Showing!
Continue readingToronto Sun asks its readers, "Do you live or work in an Ivory Tory, completely isolated from any sense of reality?"
Fern Hill captures a delicious slice of unintended truthiness from the Toronto Sun. Lord knows, you wouldn’t find it any where else at the Sun other than in the subconscious mind of one of its loyal scribes, in this case Gerry Nicholls.Whoever said a C…
Continue reading#SunMedia and journalistic ethics: another juxtaposition
<a href=”http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/this-is-where-we-juxtapose-part-godknowswhat-jerna” target=”_blank”>View “This is where we juxtapos…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your long weekend.- I’ll agree with pogge that Tabatha Southey’s latest is well worth a read. But while it’s worth recognizing the differences between the respective priorities involved in managing a country as opposed to a f…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Layton Announcement Roundup
Not much to add on this end to the news that Jack Layton is taking a temporary leave of absence to deal with a new form of cancer. But let’s note a few of the pieces which stand out in the day’s coverage. – The CP reviewed the outpouring of best wishes…
Continue readingGuardian: we can no longer ignore the far-right
Al Queda has been the go-to boogieman when acts of violence are perpetrated in western countries. The media, fed by right wing pundits and bloggers, does the full knee-jerk reaction, wondering aloud which brown-skinned, Islamic organization is responsible. Despite reports from both the UK and the US that right wing extremists were as . . . → Read More: Guardian: we can no longer ignore the far-right
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 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 readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day.- Charlie Angus is leading the charge against the Cons’ plan to ram through lawful access legislation, labeling it as warrantless snooping and spying on Canadians. We’ll have to see how far Angus can get in swaying publ…
Continue readingKate’s royal ass cheek: #sunmedia triumphs again, @davidakin makes sure we all know about it
Sad, isn’t it. When this is what occupies our imaginations and dominates public discourse, is it any wonder that so many people don’t bother to take the responsibilities of citizenship seriously? Look at the energy it’s consuming, for Chrissakes.  …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Death to diplomacy!
I’ll give Sun Media this much: they’re being slightly less partisan than I’d have expected in their bombast, following up their demand to fire a diplomat for the crime of following the alphabet with Brian Lilley’s equally vituperative screed against an…
Continue readingThe capacity for critical thought – how do we build it?
Just as we wind down the first half of 2011 in preparation for Canada Day, three disparate blog posts are jumping out at me:At Sixth Estate, Government of Canada Issues Statement Opposing the AlphabetAt Politics and its Discontents, Sun News …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Yes, plenty of attention is being paid to Canada’s weak ranking when it comes to innovation. But it’s well worth noting that the failure isn’t for lack of billions of dollars being tossed down a sinkho…
Continue readingFox News North In Trouble–Again!
First, Remember this?
If you don’t care to view all of it, it was basically Krista Erikson in her best Harper blue dress berating Montreal dancer and long time cultural icon, Margie Gillis on her Fox News North show. How she would flail her arms, basically mocking dancers, twist Ms. Gillis’ words . . . → Read More: Fox News North In Trouble–Again!
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