Isabelle Porter, Le Devoir Québec — Les employés en lock-out du Journal de Québec ont lancé hier une version Internet du MédiaMatinQuébec, le journal qu’ils publient depuis le début du conflit de travail à la fin d’avril. L’entrée en scène de ce nouveau moyen de pression survient au terme d’un mois sans aucun échange entre…
La rédaction, MédiaMatin Mine de rien, l’équipe de MédiaMatinQuébec a distribué, hier matin, le trois millionième exemplaire du quotidien que les travailleurs offrent en cadeau à la population de Québec depuis le 24 avril. Quebecor est lente à comprendre qu’elle ne gagne rien à faire perdurer le conflit qu’elle a elle-même provoqué et planifié de…
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 ou penser comme elle le veut, voire élire qui elle veut? Les expériences récentes des syndiqués du Journal de Québec en conflit, qui…
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 see is the toolbox …. News isn’t about our internecine squabbles over how to present it. We’re killing each other over methods. We’re…
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 as the chief editor of TV news for Radio-Canada and the French language news network RDI. Here’s the CBC story. Here’s the CRTC…
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 of U.S. president George W. Bush. From the response on Pearl Jam’s web site: AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s…
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. congressional committee. An excerpt of a story in the Financial Times: A US congressional committee is investigating whether Yahoo intentionally misled Congress over…
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 Pew report.
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: The report, in the latest edition of a magazine published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, said there are multiple examples of major…
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 the “Beijing 2008” handcuffs graphic; a news conference in Beijing outside the building that houses the Beijing Organising Committee; and a news conference…