The sinking ship of mainstream journalism.
The Wentegate affair and much of the traditional media’s reaction to it really tell us something about the mainstream media. Margaret Wente, who is documented to be a serial-plagiarist has…
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Link Boycott of Pro-Plagiarism Journalists (Other Bloggers Welcome to Join In)
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,…
National Post: Plagiarism is Okay Because Free Press is Accountable to No One
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…
BC Media Tycoon Puts His Best Efforts into Promoting Enbridge Pipeline
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…
Considering plagiarism? Just forget it! Nowadays you’ll be busted for sure!
Peggy Wente gets ready to write her next column. Globe and Mail columnists may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below, the real Ms. Wente, looking like she’s in a mug…
Wanted: One Plagiarist. 20+ Years Experience in Print Media an Asset.
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…
Media Bias: Toronto Star Leans Left. Sort Of.
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…
Occupy Wall Street 1 Year Later: A Roundtable Discussion
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman hosts a roundtable discussion of Occupy Wall Street movement on its 1 year anniversary with the following experts: Frances Fox Piven, an author and professor…
Strikebreaker issues bizarre condemnation of Tory candidate for management role in strike
A strikebreaker drives across an early morning picket line during the Calgary Herald strike in early 2000. Below: Catharine Ford, Joan Crockatt. It takes more than a little brass for…
Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No,…
Neocon slapheads beware! This may not be just a Frank Prank?
The message from worried Canadians, in and out of uniform, to former Frank publisher Michael Bate. Below: Frank’s semi-iconic logo, Mr. Bate, a typical Frank cover from the Paul Martin…
Media Bias: Toronto Sun Weighed Down by Conservative Columnists (No Surprise There)
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…
Mainstream Media Catches Up to Sixth Estate
Over the weekend I made what I thought was a fairly astute point about the silliness of the wave of recent press coverage praising the “subtle Quebec voter” for electing…
Media Bias: Ottawa Citizen Leans to the Right
For the last two springs, I’ve run a Media Bias study which consists of counting up the op-ed contributors to the major newspapers and identifying their links to progressive, conservative,…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Plenty of commentators are using the Labour Day weekend to discuss the place of workers in Canadian society. Sid Ryan notes that depressed…
CBC Promotes Myth of the Liberal Media
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind seeing a Conservative politician writing a column for CBC. Even if he is a creationist. But I’m dismayed to see, once again, a…
Faking Syrian War Images To Manipulate The Western Public
The demonization of genocidal dictators like Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad is standard practice in the western media’s coverage of developing-world crises. In the photo-shopped imaged below, The Krone (Die…
Fiscal shocker! Redford Tories promise transparency but deliver opacity!
Secretive Redford Tory, left, moves to the right, while Wildrose transparency advocate, right, opts for a totally different course. Below: Doug Horner and Alison Redford, both smirking. This just in!…
Globe & Mail Endorses Mitt Romney for President… Why?
After recently promising that Sixth Estate was back, I disappeared for a few days after all, which was terribly rude of me, I know. My feeble excuse is that getting…
Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society
Last night I discovered that my local newspaper – the Vancouver Sun – was going to require users log in with Facebook to comment. It turns out that this will…