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    So this is the new Globe?

    Thanks to Ivor Shapiro for sending this: Search for Rob Ford on the Globe and Mail‘s web site and you get this link to a column printed in the Saturday Oct 15 Focus section: Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat. He’s popular because of …Oct 15, 2010“Toronto municipal contender leads with his gut –…

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    Questioning a newspaper’s ethics

    Note: This came in to J-Source and seemed like it should be posted here. Comments, folks? I live in St. Marys, Ontario.  One of our newspapers in town is saying  some pretty nasty things about our mayor and the current council.  It supports the other candidate for mayor.  In fact, when he announced his candidacy,…

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    Canada must free scientists to talk to journalists

    This is an interesting column on Right to Know Week and the viewpoint that Canadian scientists are muzzled by the government as Kathryn O’Hara asks “what happened to the transparency and accountability promised when the government formed the first of two minority administrations in 2006?” 

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    J-students don’t read newspapers

    And are we surprised? A brief posting by British J-techer Roy Greenslade shows they think they’ll work in print but they don’t read it. So, where do they get their news? 

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    And the awards dilemma continues

    Elsewhere on Town Hall is this post about Murray Brewster receiving the Ross munro Media Award, given out by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute — and the inevitable “wow, there goes his ability to be objective” undercurrent. There’s one comment on it right now, a concise observation by…

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    A hot and sweaty, down and dirty approach to political column writing

    Proving political comment need not be dry, the often hilarious Heather Mallick, in the Toronto Star, imagines how Toronto will feel about “waking up” with a suddenly, incredibly, apparently landslide-bound wild-card wild-man mayoral candidate in office: “…Voting for Ford is like sleeping with someone to get revenge on your spouse. It seems like a good…

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    Covering Afghanistan

    Journalism.co.uk is publishing extracts from Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines by Vaughan Smith. It’s an interesting read.