The CRTC has become the target of a new media democracy movement, and TorStar media columnist Antonia Zerbisias has a column about it — and the grassroots media activists, lawyers, academics, labour groups and cultural nationalists involved. They want Canadians to write to the CRTC by July 18, the deadline for its September hearings on…
The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten outsources himself. Using web resources only, he reports on some sort of Indian political meeting with some sort of people in some sort of strange clothes, who made lots of some sort of strange noise. If you’re a newspaper publisher in India he’ll sell you the rights to his story…
Typophile.com has a lively discussion going on about the new Globe and Mail. Join the discussion here.
A five-year research study at Simon Fraser University, published this spring in an academic journal, concludes that Canadian newspapers miss the “real stories” about health issues and “dwell on covering the more simplistic and sensational stories.” Simplistic and sensational, eh. Never heard that before. The SFU press release is here. It’s from last month but…