Who Cares About The Youth Vote? Certainly Not The Corporate Media.
Regarding this article in the Globe & Mail: Dear Young People: Not Voting? No One Cares. Politicians need to take a chance and talk to youth and aim policies toward…
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Who Cares About The Youth Vote? Certainly Not The Corporate Media.
Regarding this article in the Globe & Mail: Dear Young People: Not Voting? No One Cares. Politicians need to take a chance and talk to youth and aim policies toward…
Who Cares About The Youth Vote? Certainly Not The Corporate Media.
Regarding this article in the Globe & Mail: Dear Young People: Not Voting? No One Cares. Politicians need to take a chance and talk to youth and aim policies toward…
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Monbiot on the "Inveterate Bastards" Who Have Hijacked Our Democracy
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‘Freedom to Read Week’ right time to assess corporate media censorship
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Is Canadian Progressivism a Farce?
The topic came up recently in a discussion I had with a prolific and thoroughly progressive blogger who will go unnamed. He lamented that he had become fed up with…
Freedom of the Press, Freedom From the Press
Western mass media have long been deservedly criticized for having an “if it bleeds, it leads” attitude to news. At one point sensationalism was seen as the sizzle that sold…
Chris Hedges On Contemporary Journalism
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Saskboy and Jymn rub The Globe’s nose in #RoboCon | #cdnpoli
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The post-partisan plea: it’s now or never | #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli
Some weeks ago, I urged Canada’s two main opposition parties to set aside their differences and work together for the greater good. Perhaps “urged” isn’t the right word. But I’m…
Liberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care what we call them | #cdnpoli
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Oh, and while we’re busy demonizing the #Occupy movement … | #classwarfare #cdnpoli
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Fiscal demonization of @OccupyTO continues on CTV | #classwarfare
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@GeorgeMonbiot takes down the corporate media
George Monbiot – Unmasking the Press: ‘via Blog this’ Too bad about Hitchens, but the best thing I’ve found about the corporate media this week comes from Monbiot. Everything you…
The Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
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Mainstream Media Fail to Cover Story on True Costs of Coal
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Far-right hatred is a sickness, but it’s a symptom, not the cause | #Norway
Late-night submissions on a heavy Sunday night ...I thought I'd seen, heard and read it all by now.That worthless piece of shit used dum-dum bullets. The cherry on the shit…
Sun News reporter’s conduct results in thousands of complaints
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Harper wants 100% control of the media, not just 90%
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