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Blahgers

12/01/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The bloggers are off to a slow start at the Liberal Convention. Much talk of the red condoms being handed out, not much in the way of insight. The Globe and Mail has a veritable phalanx of digital drones on the floor, but whatever advantage they have in numbers is offset by […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Conservatives, Globe and Mail, journalism, Liberals, Maclean's, National Post, newspapers, Warren Kinsella

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11/22/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Canadian Press, November 20, 2006:

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canadian Press, George Bush, Stephen Harper

Publish the damn book

11/21/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Rupert Murdoch has spoken, and now O.J.’s book and TV interview are gone. The Juice has been squeezed out. And everywhere, of course, newly-minted moralists proclaim that The Right Thing Has Been Done. Not since Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest has so much fatuity been heard in one 24 hour period. Of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, books, O.J. Simpson, publishing, Rupert Murdoch, television, U.S.

How the new media elected the Democrats

11/09/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The real winners of the American election are the new electronic media who, through relentless pounding of a sort only they can do, impressed upon voters just what a mess their country had become. I’m talking about online magazines like Salon, which, unlike many a journalistic johnny-come-lately, knew that the Iraq war […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, new media, online magazines, online media, online video, Salon, Stephen Colbert, U.S., U.S. election, youtube

The Streyn is showing

11/02/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Here at backofthebook.ca we’ve done a rigorous scientific study and determined that Mark Steyn has used the personal pronoun “I” precisely 1,546,784 times since beginning his “Books” column for Maclean’s. We’d provide documentation of our rigorous scientific study, but this is the internet, so we don’t have to. But if, say, our […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: books, Canada, Ezra Levant, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, National Post, publishing, Western Standard

Recent corrections we’ve enjoyed

11/01/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

From the Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Globe and Mail: “Ben Mulroney wanted to see where funding from UNICEF for Malawi, not donations from Madonna, were going. Incorrect information appeared in Saturday’s Review section.” We sympathize. We’re always getting Madonna and UNICEF mixed up too.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Globe and Mail, newspapers

The Duke of Vancouver

10/25/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Daryl Duke, the Vancouver-born TV director and producer who died last Saturday, was the real deal. In an industry full off hypesters, especially in B.C., where there are 20 would-be producers for every dollar of financing available, Duke had sufficient credits that he didn’t need to tell you all about them: you […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Canadian film, Canadian television, CBC, film, television, Vancouver

We are not The Walrus. (Or Maclean’s. Or, god-save-us, the Western Standard.)

10/15/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Does a magazine’s title determine its chances of success? It doesn’t seem to. The Walrus, having weathered that not-paying-freelancers-on-time thing, seems to be doing all right, despite being named . . . The Walrus. And despite being . . . dull. (The Walrus reminds me of nothing so much as The New […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, magazines, online publishing, publishing, The Walrus, Western Standard

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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...]

Nathan Cullen

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...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

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...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

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...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

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...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

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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