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Quand Quebecor prend des airs de Big Brother

La rédaction, MédiaMatin Quebecor est-elle en train de dicter à la région de Québec quoi lire, quoi écouter, quoi regarder et, qui sait, veut-elle influencer suffisamment la population pour l’inciter à consommer…
Na, na, na: My way is BETTER!

A website is a website is a website, argues Steve Safran in this column: The more tools we keep giving journalism, the more journalists keep arguing over the tools. What they don’t…
Morin new CRTC commissioner

Former Radio-Canada journalist Michel Morin was appointed this week as commissioner with the Canadian radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. Morin retired from Radio-Canada two years ago, after 34 years as a journalist, including…
Corporate control of information

A couple of interesting items this week about corporate control of public information: A major U.S. telco censored two lines in a telecast of the band Pearl Jam. The lines were critical…
Yahoo grilled over role in Chinese jailing

The behaviour of Yahoo and Google in China has long been controversial, because of allegations that the companies comply with Chinese censorship. Now Yahoo is on the hot seat before a U.S.…
Info-porn: enough already

From a report on the CBC web site: A survey conducted this July shows nearly nine out of 10 adult Americans believe there is too much coverage of celebrity scandals. Finally!!!!!Here’s the…
Climate change: misreporting?

A story by Mike De Souza of CanWest concerns a report blaming mainstream U.S. media for “stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change.” An excerpt of the story:…
Media and Chinese Olympics

Weekend protests against Chinese repression of press rights by Reporters Without Borders included a giant flag flown in Paris showing the Olympic rings transformedinto handcuffs; a bicycle rally in New York with…
Alain Accardo, Journalistes précaires, journalistes au quotidien (extraits)

Gilles Balbastre, Acrimed.org | Présentation : Le secteur de la presse est certainement de ceux où la précarisation des petits salariés est la plus galopante. La corporation, pourtant truffée de grandes consciences toujours…
La crise des crises

André Pratte, La Presse Crise des algues bleues, crise de la vache folle, crise du budget, crise du logement, crise forestière, crise du bois-d’oeuvre, crise des urgences, crise du Suroît, crise des…