Gotta love those who read and comment in the T.O. Sun…
Be sure to not eat anything before reading this that you don’t want to see again in a few minutes. I can’t believe that I’m of the same species as…
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An apt depiction of Rupert Murdoch
From a fine website called Think Progress. I’d love to take the axe to that tentacle on the right! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Nick Falvo discusses the unfortunate theory that any talk of improving standards of living for the neediest Canadians is either fruitless or extreme politically:In…
Is WordFest muzzling a popular author to keep the Calgary Herald happy? Sure sounds like it
Brian Brennan, at left, on the picket line during the Calgary Herald lockout and strike in 1999. Behind him, in the centre of the photo, is Canadian author Margaret Atwood,…
Nobody does terrorism quit like an Arab/Muslim
At least according to Macleans contributor Colby Cosh … Breivik employed the Palestinian logic, hitherto almost unknown amongst Western-style spree killers (though implemented at Columbine), of the delayed second attack…
Canada’s right – many are narrow minded and reactive hypocrites
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada.…
On the Oslo blasts
By now you’re probably aware of the explosion and subsequent shooting that happened today (yesterday there?) in Oslo, Norway. If not, go read then come back. Going off the details…
toronto’s ford brothers: does a true word ever leave their mouths?
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization…
Murdochs in the dock – highlights
Highlights from the Murdoch family's and Rebekah Brooks' testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let…
Media Madness & Politics
Getting out of the media mess created by our mainstream monopolies will be a real challenge. But we have to try.
Fight Fox
It’s the crime story of the decade, and maybe as important as Wikileaks. Help take down News Corp. to limit the power of Murdoch. The following is an email from…
How the audience disillusions itself
As the UK deals with the phone hacking scandal, Canada is also pondering the role of its mass media, thanks to a CTV bureau chief publicly expressing his disgust at…
News of the World Whistle Blower Found Dead
Sean Hoare - the whistle blower who exposed the News of the World scandal - has been found dead.
"I invested in a company called News Corp .." "Dad, that’s Fox!" "Argh! Undo, undo!"
Funny line from the 1999 Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" but it got terribly serious today with one of the whistle blowers being found dead and PM David Cameron…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper's inexplicable warnings about Canada's eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper…
Brooks is not the victim here
Why was Rebekah Brooks made to fall on her own sword? What happened to the buck stops here (meaning it's the ownership of the paper, not the editors, who take…
walkom: we sent our soldiers to die to impress our largest trading partner
This is probably the strongest truth-telling about Canada's experience in Afghanistan - and the revolting response to it at home - that I have seen in the mainstream media. Thank…
On surprising standards
I'm sure Terence Corcoran thinks he's making a brilliant sarcastic point of some sort. But ideology aside, is there actually any reason to disagree in the slightest with his portrayal…
Now don’t slam me for saying this!
The Heritage robot, James Moore, has said that the CBC isn’t immune to Strategic and Operating Review cuts – and this has the Twittersphere et al squawking mightily. While I…
The Audacity of Shaw: How Canada’s Internet just got Worse
It is really, really, really hard to believe. But as bad as internet access is in Canada, it just got worse. Yesterday, Shaw Communications, a Canadian telecommunications company and internet…