By Frank Moher Now that the Conrad Black trial has entered its Radlerian phase, with Black’s former capo taking the stand against him, it’s time once again to blog the poor bloggers (and columnists) consigned to Chicago’s federal courthouse. Question: what is Mark Steyn without his trademark wit? Answer: the rather dull fellow we find […]
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Bowing to Lord Black
By Frank Moher And now, to blog the bloggers and columnists on the Conrad Black Trial . . . Even as Christie Blatchford engaged in some generous genital-licking of Mark Steyn as part of her coverage, referring to him as “a very funny columnist” (which is often true), she was also showing him how to […]
Facts, and other dispensable truths
By Frank Moher So, this one should have been easy. At a star chamber-style military trial, the Pentagon releases the transcript of testimony by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, purported Al-Qaeda mastermind, in which he admits to a laundry list of atrocities and would-be atrocities. Not only was he responsible for the 9/11 attacks, it says, but […]
Conrad Black good for newspapers? Tell me another one.
By guest blogger Brian Brennan Now that the merry pranksters at Frank magazine have been outed as the satirists behind the http://www.supportlordblack.com hoax, it behooves us to ask who does support Conrad Black, and why? The March 12th issue of Maclean’s magazine offers an answer: Mark Steyn, a right-wing columnist described by Peter Preston of […]
The Walrus: dull, and proud of it
By Frank Moher A new issue of The Walrus is upon us, and across the nation, crickets chirp. The cover story offers this breaking news: the earth is warming. “In the last decade,” writes its author, Alanna Mitchell, “the most authoritative reports on climate change have presented increasingly pessimistic worst-case scenarios about rising temperatures.” Really? […]
Maclean’s: higher, deeper
By Frank Moher Maclean’s keeps digging itself in deeper (and the you-know-what higher) on its Regina file. (See previous post or do a Google search.) On Tuesday, it published a full page ad in the Regina Leader-Post, reprinting a letter to the editor that had run in that paper on January 20th. It begins: “My […]
Thankyou, Maclean’s Man. Thankyou.
See Jonathon Gatehouse fly. See Jonathon Gatehouse soar. Jonathon Gatehouse soars over the firmament, landing only when he or his editors at Maclean’s decide he is needed. He is — MACLEAN’S MAN. Damascus, Minneapolis, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Winnipeg. Jonathon Gatehouse circles the globe and, when duty calls, dons his parachute and jumps. Parachute journalism is […]
Note to true-crime writers: Watch your backs
By guest blogger Brian Brennan The Robert William Pickton murder trial has started in New Westminster Supreme Court with 350 media types from around the world accredited to cover the case. Most of these reporters — including two former Vancouver prostitutes blogging for the so-called “citizen journalism” website, orato.com — are filing for same-day or […]
The view from the Globe
By Frank Moher By Frank Moher Two otherwise unremarkable entries in The National Post and The Globe and Mail this week are instructive in the most salient difference between the two papers — and it isn’t that one is right-wing and the other is even more right-wing. Both articles are about the opening of the […]
To sum up
By Frank Moher Top 2 reasons that Top 10 lists exist: They’re an easy story for a journalist to bank during the holidays They make journalists feel really, really good about themselves #1 is only a problem if the journo banks his story too early: say, a film critic putting out his Top 10 list […]
