By Montreal Simon I see that Mike Wallace is being given a grand send off and is being called a journalistic hero. The newspapers are full of glowing obituaries, and TV stations have been running clips of his most famous interviews and documentaries. But funnily enough nobody mentioned the famous documentary LGBT activist Wayne Besen has […]
False news is good for you. Really.
By Frank Moher The last time Avaaz.org organized an online petition, I wasn’t too nice about it. But when it comes to “false news,” the activist organization is right on money. What is false news? Funny you should ask. I wondered exactly the same thing, when I first heard the phrase last week. Actually, what […]
McLuhan saw this coming
By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right when he gave my […]
Editing for nothing for Dire Straits
By Frank Moher You will have heard that an American publishing house has plans for an edition of Huckleberry Fiinn in which the character “N***** Jim” is to be renamed “Slave Jim.” Now comes word that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that the song “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits is unfit for […]
