Reading Time: 5 minutes Once upon a time, a news story wasn’t news until a legitimate news outlet carried it. Now, if it’s on somebody’s Twitter feed it’s a news story
Tag: Propaganda
Living in the post-truth world, energy style
Reading Time: 4 minutes Post-truth nonsense about fossil fuels paints a dangerous, damaging and distorted picture of Canada’s energy use and production
How to filter real journalists from advocacy media outlets
Reading Time: 3 minutes In true journalism, opinion or commentary must be clearly labelled as such, and blending hard news with commentary is insidious
Media consultant Tony Schwartz transformed modern politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes His one minute TV ad called Daisy won the 1964 election for U.S. President Lyndon Johnson
There’s nothing new about foreign intervention in elections
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian hacking of DNC emails? Sounds like business as usual in the modern history of political interference by other countries
OPSEU’s anti-privatization campaign draws on old stereotypes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s ad campaign against private liquor stores plays loose with the facts
Frankenfood follies put world at peril
Reading Time: 4 minutes GMOs may be the only way to avoid catastrophic global water and food shortages