Mother Jones asked Michael Pollan about the transition to being the public face of food activism. His response: You still have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. When Obama announced his pick for agriculture secretary I was disappointed, and I said so in some interviews. I got calls from very prominent…
Charlie Smith of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight wondered whether libertarian columnist Terence Corcoran, for whom broadcast regulators (well, most regulators) were favourite targets, continued to excoriate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission after CanWest took over his employer, the National Post. Noted Smith, “Corcoran found himself in the uncomfortable position where if he ripped into the…
Well, make that three photos. But the top one gets my vote. From the Silicon Alley Insider, photos by Noah Berger of AP.
B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues….
Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”
“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?
Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing. The Science journal Nature looks at the issue — with a focus on the implications for science.
I rarely agree with the opinions that pervade the National Post, but I found myself cheering at parts of comment editor Jonathan Kay’s column praising the CBC for “intellectual elitism” — and calling on it to raise its game. After decades of listening and occasionally watching, the CBC has faded from my life, likely in…
It’s noteworthy and quite right that Hearst’s revised media product in Seattle makes no pretence at credibility by retaining the word “intelligence” in the name of the thingy that replaced the Post-Intelligencer…
Manitoba is mulling over whether to give the public a front-row seat in the province’s courtrooms,” reports the Canadian Press. A committee appointed by the province’s chief judges is expected to recomment within months whether Manitoba should become the latest province to allow cameras in some courtrooms.