Reading Time: 5 minutes A new survey says people are looking at journalism with new respect in these troubled times
Tag: News media
Wasting money propping up untenable news operations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Billions spent on the CBC, hundreds of millions redirected by the CRTC. Is more federal funding for local news justified?
Rigorous journalism can save us from fake news
Reading Time: 4 minutes How government can navigate a changing landscape to create the conditions for vigorous, ethical journalism and open, informed debate
The western media’s appalling embrace of North Korea
Reading Time: 4 minutes The international media is so blind in its disdain for Trump that they are whitewashing the crimes of one of the world’s most repressive regimes
Sacked: sports media objectivity is being thrown for a loss
Reading Time: 4 minutes The relationship between the covered and those covering is morphing as teams expect different things from the people who inhabit the press box
Mob rule: the Internet at its most thoughtless and hurtful
Reading Time: 4 minutes A story gets told, people instantly react, someone gets vilified. Sometimes they get destroyed. This time, the mob went after a mother who didn’t deserve it
Go ahead, shoot the messenger
Reading Time: 3 minutes The media bears some of the responsibility for Donald Trump even when we stand in defiance of him
#MeToo movement gains traction in Ottawa
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ottawa’s corridors of power have been buzzing about a coming bombshell. The revelations will bring a speedy end to many political careers
The fake news controversy isn’t really new
Reading Time: 3 minutes News reporting has always been susceptible to allegations of spin and slant, cherry-picking and calculation
Wouldn’t it be great to tone down the superlatives in sports?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The five-letter word great has become the most overworked superlative in sports