ConCalls: Investigate the Investigation? #RoboCon
If you need your blood pressure raised, Daniel Dickin has just the treatment for you. The persistent hack, perpetual election fraud defender, suggests that because there are no resulting charges…
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The not so new normal
We live an existence of change and uncertainty. We should celebrate.
Stuff from Duff ™ (with apologies to Hilary and Hailey)
Mike Duffy, a supposedly neutral journalist and Ottawa pundit for nearly 30 years for both CBC and CTV before he became transparently neo-con and did everything he could on air…
Something In The Water
BCL on the chutzpah of Jonathan Kay, junk science enabler debunker: here’s a real lack of self-awareness here. Jonathon , after all, is comment pages editor at the National Post,…
A Short History of the Death of Culture (a cartoon)
Related: Selected Media Fads Through the Ages. Alltop is doing its part too!
A Great Ad. For the Liberal party?
Warren Kinsella called attention to this ad on his blog. Thanks Warren. This is a fantastic ad, glorifying the triumph of hard work, persistence in the face of adversity and…
Cosign With Jay Rosen
This: Editing by click rate is stupid and unethical. Chasing traffic is an abyss. The hamsterization of journalism is degrading the work environment for news professionals. Expecting reporters to report,…
Friday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Lawrence Martin questions the media’s obsession with fabricating stories out of imagined motivations and insignificant shifts in poll numbers: In the year before…
When Should Material From Another Source Be Quoted?
A flurry of emails and heartfelt apologies later, I feel pressed to add some additional commentary on a piece I published on Wednesday, which suggested that the Globe & Mail…
In Hungary, Racist Harper Government Billboards Targeting Roma Ethnic People
Hindus have termed Canadian government billboards in Hungary targeting Roma (Gypsy) asylum-seekers as highly inappropriate and blatant racism. by The Canadian Progressive reporters on Jan. 30, 2013 Hindus have termed…
Globe & Mail Takes on Canada’s Income Inequality, “Borrows” Quotes in the Process
Yesterday, the media fell all over a new report from Statistics Canada which found that since 1982 Canada’s wealthiest 1%, and especially Canada’s wealthiest 0.01%, have enjoyed massively disproportionate increases…
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Seeks Public Support For Licence Renewal Process
by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network | Jan 23, 2013: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has submitted an application to renew its licence to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).…
Throw National Post a Lifeline
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties,…
The Globe & Mail: Canada’s Plagiarizing Tabloid of Record
The Globe & Mail’s evidently terminal decline has accelerated to the point where it can now practically be measured by the day. It’s not just that they’ve abandoned the integrity…
Network television, and remembering…
… why I gave it up in the first place. I made a conscious decision quite a few years back to shun network TV. The interminable and juvenile ads bugged…
The litmus test
It’s now the official rule of thumb for Canadian journalists: if the Harper Cons aren’t attacking you for having the nerve to point out their falsehoods, then you’re not doing…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Dennis Gruending writes about the importance of Edgar Schmidt’s whistleblowing against unconstitutional legislation: Schmidt says that he has over a period of years…
On Pregnancy and Body Image
Hooray for hips and belly I have never considered myself a particularly vain person. However, constant media messaging (your body is not good enough, therefore you are not good enough)…
On Pregnancy and Body Image
Hooray for hips and belly I have never considered myself a particularly vain person. However, constant media messaging (your body is not good enough, therefore you are not good enough)…