Farewell Andy Barrie
Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone …
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Scientologists investigate journalists
Thirty years ago, The St. Petersburg Times newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, which evidently considered the newspaper’s coverage unfair, recently hired investigators to investigate, and then …
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What they read
The Atlantic wondered: How do other people deal with the torrent of information? It asked Steve Coll, Nicholas Lemann, James Gibney, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder, and dished up the details of their media diets at theAtlanticWire. What would a Canadian diet include?
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When a story doesn’t pan out…
Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. And then her research undermined her premise…
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Americans bemoan Canadian Olympic television
American TV viewers accustomed to watching the Olympics on CBC television are upset ….
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Bah!
The headline sums up Clifford Stoll’s nice rant in Newsweek: “The Internet? Bah!” Or — for readers here who don’t care to click through — “When most everyone shouts, few listen.” Hear, hear.
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Dead mags
The Utne Reader has announced the founding of its Dead Magazine Club. Is this ghoulish, or a fitting memorial?
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Major-general slams coverage of murder case involving colonel
Retired Major-General Lewis MacKenzie reasonably, in my opinion, criticized media coverage of the murder case involving Colonel Russell Williams. But at the same time, he smeared all journalists in much the same way he accuses journalists of smearing the Canadian Forces.
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Shaw buys Canwest [UPDATED]
Heavily indebted CanWest Global Communications Corp is being effectively acquired by cable and satellite company Shaw Communications Corp., the companies announced. “While there is much work still to be done, Shaw’s commitment represents an important step towards a successful financial restructuring of Canwest and is supported by the Company and the members of the Ad…
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Complaint alleges Canwest violated advertising standards with Shell tarsand features
The Sierra Club of Canada filed a damning complaint against Canwest and Shell Canada, alleging they “violated the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards.” The complaint concerns a series of advertorials about the tarsands, paid for by Shell, which in some formats cannot be distinguished from news …