Recently a famous ethicist named Margaret Somerville, whom I will not link to because of the ongoing plagiarism link boycott, said that criticizing Wente’s plagiarism because we don’t like her…
The controversial McGill ethicist, well known for her stances on gay marriage and abortion, has come out in defence of Margaret Wente. You know, it was bad enough when experienced…
That should sound like a very straightforward and pedestrian proposition, given all I’ve had to say on the subject of Globe & Mail scribbler Margaret Wente’s plagiarizing ways over the…
So declared a pompous civil servant on a famous British 80s sitcom, Yes Minister, and so, apparently, the Harper regime declares today. Yesterday’s news that the son of a former…
Several important institutions were put on the chopping block in Budget 2012, and some of those had important catalogues of publications on topics of national importance which I am concerned…
Continuing our merry tour through the pro-plagiarism world of journamalism, we arrive at the Christian right think tank Cardus, an organization which somehow manages to draw on “more than 2000…
In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe & Mail…
The Margaret Wente plagiarism saga continues. On Friday, the Globe & Mail imported an American media export named Kelly McBride to offer yet another explanation for Wente’s sins: Professional journalism…
In response to a recent, simultaneously patronizing and paranoid column in the National Post which claims that criticizing journalists for plagiarism is akin to subjecting them to Cultural Revolution-style oppression,…
High-profile Globe & Mail columnist Margaret Wente, whose habitual plagiarizing made the news this week after her employer tried unsucessfully to dismiss allegations by bloggers, has picked up yet another…
As you may have read a month or so ago, the wealthy owner of a B.C.-based chain of community newspapers — the sort of papers I assume Enbridge has been…
Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still…
First, a mea culpa. The projects on the bill-paying side of my life have been quite extensive recently and I haven’t kept up with some of the news as much…
Years ago now, the big argument in the climate change community was about how to lower emissions. The left favoured regulation. But, in order to draw in right-wingers who insisted…
You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer.…
… Although given how readily they swallowed it, it might be a bit of a stretch to call it bait in the first place. Apparently one of the items in…
As part of my ongoing Media Bias study, I recently took a look at the Toronto Sun, and pointed out that the Sun Media stable of columnists has a distinct…
It’s come to something when the Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, responsible for overseeing the country’s federal prosecutors, doesn’t just think this way. Doesn’t just act this way. But…
If we’re going to have religious fundamentalists trying to rabble-rouse left, right, and centre, in this country, the conservative media is going to have to figure out how to cover…
There is a pervasive myth, repeatedly told by politicians, right-wing pundits, and others, that Canada’s media is mostly dominated by liberals and the left. The Sixth Estate Media Bias study…
