W’e’ve Heard This Story Before
Ottawa Citizen paper boxes in downtown Ottawa are now sporting “permanently out of business” signs in their windows, and are redirecting customers to nearby corner stores. This is exactly what…
Die Media Die
St. Catherine’s Standard Sacks A Dozen
So say the rumors. Die Sun Media Die.
More Layoffs, Dropped Editions Coming To Sun Media?
News of the latest at Postmedia has prompted speculation among the folks at the Toronto Sun Family Blog. Dropping weekend editions has already been discussed among Sun Media management, though…
Fox News North: Hard News, Hard Numbers
…no audience: CBC News Network drew 1.4 per cent of viewers, U.S. news network CNN took 0.9 per cent, CTV News Channel attracted 0.8 per cent and Sun News brought…
Ezra Levant And The "Actual Facts"
From a CBSC (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council) complaint I hadn’t even heard about: The CBSC has traditionally recognized that hosts of public affairs programs are entitled to hold and express…
T.O. Sun Sacks Another
Connie Woodcock says she has been axed after 18 years as an op-ed Toronto Sun columnist. Posted at Toronto Sun Family Blog, who are usually pretty reliable.
Fox News North Dumped By Parliamentary Cable TV System
3 Days Ago! And nobody has even noticed! Don’t know how many can get to Mark Bourrie’s Facebook page. But you should try and friend the guy. He’s a media…
Bell O’ Doom Tolls Louder For Cdn Print Media
As Mark Bourrie notes on his Facebook site, if you scroll down to the bottom of this piece you notice: (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore and Allison Martell in…
Would You Like Fries With That, Sir?
The result of a survey of unemployment rates among college graduates: Nice to see what would happen if they split up “Communications/Journalism” into two catagories. Writing up press releases for…
Manitoba Newspapers Reject Accountability
The Manitoba Press Council has ceased operating after the last few participating newspapers withdrew their financial support. …Bob Cox, publisher of the Free Press, said that today’s social media environment…
Journalism, Real And Fake
Still another day’s worth of eating and over-consuming left to get through, so don’t expect anything too coherent until that’s all been accomplished. Until then, here’s a piece on how…
A Match Made In Heaven
One of the very last products still advertising on Fox News North, it seems. Otherwise, they drone on endlessly; one yearns for the appearance of Dr. Ho.
Freak Scene: Man Returns To Sinking Ship!
Not something you see everyday. And, yes, Andrew, when your final career change comes, I do want fries with that.
The Globe & Mail Takes Steps To Remove Itself From National Conversation
The Globe and Mail has announced it will move some of its digital content behind a paywall in the summer of 2012. More details here: The Globe and Mail will…
Banned By Fox News North!
Mark Bourrie was, after being approached as a potential hire by Kory Teneycke last year. Interesting in that it sounds like Mark's the 2nd person Sun TV approached to fill…
Fox News North Viewership Numbers Still Crap
With an average minute audience of 11,400 during the Hard News day and 31,200 for Straight Talk in prime time, Sun News is off to a strong start. Its from…
I Like Mike DeSouza
This PostMedia reporter did bang-up work on the PWU's (Power Worker's Union) astroturf campaign against Ontario's Green Energy Act. And this article, chronicling how Enviro Canada scientists have been trying…
Still Bleeding Money
...Postmedia sells the Victoria Times Colonist, to help pay off debt and focus on its "core properties". As it happens, my very first job was delivering The Victoria Colonist, the…
News Flash! Print Media Still Dying
From the WAN-IFRA, the World Press Trends Survey brings news to gladden the heart, if in your heart you feel the MSM should be crushed, skinned, and its bones fed…