Reading Time: 3 minutes Don’t expect objectivity from newspaper and television news, which tend to lean left
Tag: News media
Finding salvation in the ashes of the daily newspaper business
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CBC can be the link to broader success, if it goes ad-free and makes its news content freely available to other news platforms
Mainstream media is full of fake news
Reading Time: 4 minutes Few realize the extent to which the financial establishment uses fake news to fool the public
Levelling the playing field for newspapers in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian newspaper publishers asked for federal help only after failing to get changes in taxation, copyright and other areas that would level the playing field
Why even freak shows deserve a spotlight
Reading Time: 3 minutes Broadcasting the Alex Jones interview was the right decision. All points of view, no matter how reprehensible, must be open for debate
Mourning an Alberta publishing icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ruth Kelly understood she had a unique responsibility: to cheerlead and promote but also to criticize constructively and objectively
No reason why an activist can’t be a columnist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, it’s possible to be a columnist and activist. So why couldn’t the Toronto Star countenance Desmond Cole and his stand on police carding?
A tempest in a cultural appropriation teapot
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the CBC and others, a joke about cultural appropriation is more important than, you know, things like real racism
Community papers stay true to their roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Community newspapers will survive because nobody else is going to tell the stories they do
Getting snowed under in a political Potter’s field
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fault isn’t with Quebec society. It’s with a political world that utterly rejects that it must bear responsibility when hundreds are stranded in a storm