Media are complicit in the sexual exploitation of women
Breaking news! Time magazine names The Silence Breakers of the #metoo movement the Person the Year in 2017. The Canadian Press names the movement itself the top news story of…
Lesley Hughes
Media’s formulaic approach to terror attacks ignores roots of violence
Photo from Public Domain In Canada, thanks to saturation coverage in mainstream and social media, mention of the June 3 terrorist attacks on London Bridge will forever call up the…
Castro coverage shows fake news is ubiquitous
Photo by NBC Miami Perhaps the biggest media story of 2016 was the overdue discovery of fake news: totally manufactured information slickly packaged as journalism. Getting a lot less attention…