By Rod Mickleburgh And so my former colleagues at the Globe and Mail have another big change at the top to mull over in the bars. That is, if newspaper types still go to the bar during these daze of social media, wine and healthy eating . . . John Stackhouse, editor of the Globe […]
Peladeau kicks Sun TV to the curb
By Montreal Simon Well it wasn’t a total surprise, but it was still a stunning sight. Pauline Marois and her new star candidate Pierre-Karl Péladeau. Pierre-Karl Péladeau, controlling shareholder of the Quebecor media empire, on Sunday announced he will run for the Parti Québécois, saying his top motivation is to make Quebec independent. “My joining […]
Extra, extra, not dead yet
By Rod Mickleburgh The trend is not good for newspapers. Ad revenue is down, circulation is down, the number of stories are down, employment is down. Newspapers are starting to look like vinyl did when shiny new CDs showed up. So old-fashioned, a refuge only for fuddy-duddies and luddites. Record buyers everywhere ditched their collections […]
The Barrie Advance schools the PMO — and the Star
By Frank Moher That the Barrie Advance did the right thing in publishing a story about the PMO peddling dirt on Justin Trudeau: Check. That the PMO once again revealed itself as unethical, contemptuous of the public and, just to add to the bouillabaisse, incompetent: Check. That various publications and journalists will now explain why […]
A Modest Opinion – Stephen Harper Caught On Tape Drinking Motor Oil*
By Nathaniel Moher With the CBC repeatedly reporting on an unconfirmed video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford apparently hanging out with accused drug dealers and smoking crack cocaine, they have completely missed another apparent video. The other apparent video, I’m told, contains footage of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen “Harps” Harper apparently hanging out with accused […]
Not much media behind Postmedia’s paywalls
By Frank Moher As suddenly as the Berlin Wall fell, paywalls went up today across the Postmedia “content network,” or whatever we call what we used to call “newspaper chains.” Steve Ladurantaye, media reporter for the competing Globe, broke the news to a non-waiting nation by posting the death notice internal memo on his personal website. […]
Mark Leiren-Young hates puppies
By Mark Leiren-Young I did not write that headline. But if my editor came up with something clever to write above this story — and I’m clearly tempting fate and Frank Moher (my editor) to write something bratty up there — chances are I’ll be the one who gets in trouble for it. After taking […]
An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by playing social worker to Spence, citing the Chiefs and elders who’ve told her, “You […]
Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists
By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, was the reporter fired by […]
Not all bad news in the Wente affair
By David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully tried to dismiss the accusations as the rantings […]
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