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Stacked odds topple Stackhouse

03/20/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, business, David Walmsley, Globe and Mail, John Stackhouse, newspapers, Phillip Crawley, Toronto

Peladeau kicks Sun TV to the curb

03/10/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Brian Mulroney, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, newspapers, Parti Quebecois, Paulette Marois, Pierre-Karl Péladeau, Quebec, Quebecor, Stephen Harper, Sun Media, Sun News Network, Sun TV News Channel

Extra, extra, not dead yet

02/08/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: blogs, Globe, internet, internet journalism, newspapers, online me, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun

The Barrie Advance schools the PMO — and the Star

06/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Canada, Erica Meekes, John Ivison, journalism, National Post, newspapers, PMO, Shannon Rupp, Stephen Meurice, Susan Delacourt, thetyee.ca, Toronto Star, Trudeau

A Modest Opinion – Stephen Harper Caught On Tape Drinking Motor Oil*

06/12/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Canada, newspapers, Rob Ford, robots, Stephen Harper

Not much media behind Postmedia’s paywalls

05/14/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canada, Globe and Mail, Gordon Fisher, internet journalism, journalism, New York Times, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Phillip Crawley, Postmedia

Mark Leiren-Young hates puppies

03/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Leiren-Young, Media Tagged With: journalism, newspapers

An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU

01/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, CTV, First Nations, Idle No More, Jonathan Kay, journalism, Kevin Newman, National Post, newspapers, Stephen Harper, television, Theresa Spence

Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists

12/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, bad behaviour, Canada, Conservatives, Globe and Mail, ipolitics, James Bezan, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, National Post, newspapers, publishing, Vancouver Observer, William Thorsell

Not all bad news in the Wente affair

10/01/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Carol Wainio, CBC, Jesse Brown, Margaret Wente, Media Culpa, National Post, newspapers, Terence Corcoran, Toronto Star

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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