Florence Vergne, journalismes.net | Vous êtes au cœur de Jérusalem. Une bombe explose. Qui est l’auteur de cet attentat ? Quelles vont être les conséquences ? Comment relater cet événement ? C’est à vous de répondre à ces questions en tant que journaliste indépendant parachuté au cœur du conflit israélo-palestinien. Bienvenue dans Global Conflicts :…
CBC and CTV made the unusual move of disassociating themselves from Peter Kent, former broadcast journalist and now a Conservative candidate in the Toronto area riding of Thornhill. Kent’s promo video (here, on youtube.com) includes praise by Peter Mansbridge of the CBC, Lloyd Robertson of CTV and former CTV journalist Pamela Wallin.
David Ljunggren of Reuters reports on covering the Canadian election amid surreal political perspectives of the economy, and an economic reporter’s attempts to get a handle on Conservative policy positions. The piece is part reality-check, part critical analysis and part humour.
Back in February, media watcher Robert Hackett argued media reform should be a top priority in the impending (even back then) federal election. Hackett saw a disturbing constellation forming: an industry push for deregulation, a new market-friendly CRTC head, and a government bent on pursuing a majority. But between collapsing markets and pooping puffins, only…
Why do newspapers endorse political parties during elections?
If the election in the riding of Peterborough was decided by Facebook friends, the small Ontario city would likely send a Green Party MP to Ottawa on Oct. 14. Social media sites like Facebook are this federal election’s newest – if still minor – battleground. An article in the Peterborough Examiner looks at how that’s…
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint alleging that a Mark Steyn piece in Maclean’s exposed Muslims to hatred and contempt, on the basis of their religion, in breach of s. 7(1)(b) of the Human Rights Code…
When this federal election campaign began, I criticized The Globe and Mail‘s election website. It seems only fair to come back and take a second look as the campaign closes.
The Toronto Star reports on the political score-keeping over CTV’s airing of an interview with Stéphane Dion. The Star’s front-page link to its daily poll asks readers…
Art meets journalism: CBC Radio’s The Current ran a documentary about Ontario independent candidate David Page, part of a series on “The Supercommitted” candidates. It’s called “A Quixotic Candidate” — no doubt because Page’s quest to be elected is Quixotic indeed. I happened to catch it and, weary of the frenzy and ideological spite of…