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Tag: Television
The thrilling days of cliff-hanger serials
Reading Time: 3 minutes From Congo Bill to Zorro, they were fertile ground for a youngster’s imagination as we waited for next week’s derring-do
What CBC gets wrong about the crisis in Venezuela
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Maduro regime has inflicted massive human suffering. You wouldn’t know that by watching the National
Queen Victoria’s foreign policy man was larger than life
Reading Time: 4 minutes Were Lord Palmerston alive today, he’d most certainly be a Brexiteer
Using big data analytics for social good and broader perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gender Gap Tracker makes big data public to motivate media to achieve gender parity among experts
Is gambling a big deal to the NFL? You can bet on it
Reading Time: 4 minutes With billions now being bet legally on sports, the simple outcome of the Super Bowl game will no longer be the only story
The lessons Fred Rogers taught us still resonate
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new documentary, followed by a feature film, bring the spotlight back to Mister Rogers. His legacy is worth rediscovering
Does Canadian culture warrant widespread taxpayer support?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Protecting cultural industries from competition and propping them up with public money is just wasteful
Legacy media is in a zombie state, so why waste public money on it?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Leave reporting to independent innovators who build the public trust honestly. Any government subsidy surely undermines that trust
TV’s Vikings is good fun and semi-reasonable history
Reading Time: 3 minutes But large-scale medieval violence and plundering wasn’t uniquely Viking – not by a long stretch