Reading Time: 4 minutes But what happens when disinformation campaigns run headlong into reality?
Tag: News media
Why don’t Canadian broadcasters love the beautiful game?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being a true football fan in Canada has been a pretty lonely existence
Don’t count on government to police the internet
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of embracing its liberating capabilities, the government is opting for woke conformity
CBC trying to shake free of its mandate as a public broadcaster
Reading Time: 3 minutes The RCI controversy shows CBC’s primary purpose is the acquisition – at the expense of private broadcasters – of audiences and money
The media is actively promoting doctor assisted suicide
Reading Time: 5 minutes The use of euphemisms such as “assisted dying” rather than “euthanasia” or “assisted suicide” is putting our most vulnerable at risk
Truth, lies and the insidious rise of “misinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political debate has become sanctimonious lecturing, with one side refusing to accept even the possibility that they might be wrong
Strange weather and the words we use to describe it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thousands of words describe weather. Some arise from folklore, some carry historical inferences and others are the result of superstition
Time to combat the COVID-19 narrative of fear
Reading Time: 4 minutes What we need is well-informed, critical and rational thought, combined with a healthy skepticism of politicians and mainstream media
To protect democracy, we must protect local media
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our 21st-century reliance on tech giants to supply us with information has resulted in fake news, clickbait and polarized societies
Just the facts? Don’t count on fact-checkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes A closer look at almost every fact-checking organization shows a great deal of politics and vested interests involved