Category / Commentary
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Police camera seizures
The Vancouver police department formally apologized to the Province newspaper for “retaining the camera belonging to their photographer Jason Payne for longer than we should have,” Chief Constable Jim Chu told a…
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CanWest reprieve redux
Canwest Global Communications Corp was again given some breathing room by its lenders…
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Adbusters 1; CBC/Global 0
A decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal gives Adbusters the right to sue broadcasters CBC and CanWest Global for refusing to screen anti-consumerist television ads, which were pulled after car…
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Police camera seizures
The BC Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the Vancouver Police Board, following the brief seizure of Province newspaper photographer Jason Payne’s camera….
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Re-imagining journalism
The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, coordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first piece, “Why…
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Vancouver police seize journalist’s camera
Vancouver police roughed up a photographer with the Province newspaper and briefly confiscated his camera ….
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NYT publisher: lightweight cheerleader — or last, best defender?
“With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep…
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Record profit for European newspaper Bild
“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year…
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Alt-obscenity
Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the B.C. online…
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Lose the jargon, academics told
“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald and André Picard…