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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The…
Best Tweet of the day: joebyer 6:13pm via Flipboard Expecting Fox to report on the death of “cyclist Neil Armstrong” any minute now. Retweeted by LadySnarksalot (9) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
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…