The greatest Christmas movie miracle of all time
This originally appeared as a column in the December 22 print and online editions of the North Bay / Nippissing News, the weekly newspaper I’ve been writing for recently. I’ve…
Journalism
Vancouver Sun practices conscious deceit
Elmer Derrick and Enbridge VP Janet Holder IS IT TRUE ELMER DERRICK IS “THE” GITXSAN HEREDITARY CHIEF? Commentary by Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, Dec. 11, 2011 This is the claim…
Canada trails USA in risk awareness
Canadian media doesn’t provide much detail but ProPublica, the American non-profit doing fine investigative reporting, is examining dangers of gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. In an earlier article…
Majority supports Keystone XL, or do they?
Wetland oil spill – Evi, Alberta Vancouver Sun headlines: U.S. majority supports controversial Keystone XL pipeline project: poll “A majority of U.S. voters still support TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL…
Never in Canada, right?
Abramoff Regrets Paying Writers For “Placed” Columns, by Joe Strupp, Media Matters, Dec. 8, 2011 “…During a recent interview with Media Matters while promoting his new book, Capitol Punishment: The…
Fiscal demonization of @OccupyTO continues on CTV | #classwarfare
Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots. Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a “news” report is…
Book Review: Suffled How it Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans
“I think Hannah Arendt did say somewhere in The Origins of Totalitarianism that the thesis of the modern state is: ‘Everyone should die.’” –Suffled How it Gush (pg. 74) I…
How The Globe channels the 1 per cent | #Occupy #classwarfare
Managing Occupy protest cost city $1-million, city says – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It’s masquerading as “objective” “news,” but in fact it’s anything but. Note how Canada’s…
Help for the CBC on conflicts of interest
Regular readers will be aware that I filed a complaint with CBC Ombudsman Kirk Lapointe over the conflict involving Legislative Bureau Chief Stephen Smart, husband of Rebecca Scott who holds…
@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…
Taking issue with journalism in the MSM
I left this comment at Ian Reid’s article about Vaughn Palmer but the audio link does not work within comments, so I repeat the comment intended to follow Ian’s item…
Can someone report news while making news?
It is appropriate to ask if political writers can report objectively after they become paid participants in the public forum, earning appearance fees and other remuneration from businesses with interests…
Public interest journalism in BC?
December 1, Glacier Media Inc. completed the acquisition of Postmedia Network Inc.’s community newspapers in British Columbia and the Times Colonist. . The Lower Mainland Publishing Group media assets include:…
Free market, Canadian style
From J-Source.ca “New Brunswick is about to become the first place in Canada where readers must pay for local news. “The Irving-owned Brunswick News Inc. has decided that the era…
Snoozing, slothful syndicate of political poodles…
At the Rafe Mair birthday celebration last week, we got to hear Rafe tell an anecdote about writing for Ryerson School of Journalism a piece that celebrated free speech, one…
On media, a reader’s contribution
Ms.Photo Op,Mentzelopoulos,Muir,Waldner Here’s an excerpt from the Vancouver Sun that ran Nov 22nd about the hiring of the husband of the minister of corporate priorities by the Vancouver Island Health…
Headline of the week, maybe of the year
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Old news, aged quickly
Today, media conglomerates are not only influenced by Big Money interests, but they are often themselves Big Money interests. - Cameron Gaut I wrote earlier that the Toope Report helps…
Mainstream media no longer sole gatekeepers
In the government's sale disposition of BC Rail, there are compelling indicators that massive fraud was perpetrated. Even worse, senior provincial officials interfered with investigation and prosecution of the duplicity…
How the death of Steve Jobs could save Canadians
This originally appeared as a column in the November 3 print and online editions of the North Bay / Nippissing News, the weekly newspaper I’ve been writing for recently. I’ve…