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Mike Wallace and The Homosexuals

04/09/2012 by backofthebook.ca

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: broadcasting, journalism, LGBTQ, television

A Modest Opinion – Retracted

03/26/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher Dear worshipping readership: as one of the few remaining hard-hitting investigative journalists out there (see you at the meeting, Seacrest), I obviously pride myself on never making a mistake. Ever. But apparently my assumption that I never make a mistake is, in fact, a mistake, and I would like to apologise for […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: journalism

How the Sun helped post the Playhouse’s closing notice

03/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher The sudden news that the Vancouver Playhouse is closing after 49 seasons comes as a shock, of course. We assume these venerable civic institutions will somehow always manage to lumber along, despite economic downturns and hostile governments and digital depredations. This, after all, was the company that gave Canadian theatre its seminal […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: arts, BC, Canada, journalism, newspapers, theatre, Vancouver

Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald

02/03/2012 by backofthebook.ca

The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to “jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged it would end the […]

Filed Under: Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald Tagged With: Alberta, books, business, Calgary, Calgary Herald, Canada, Conrad Black, Hollinger, journalism, labour, newspapers, Southam, unions

On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck

12/19/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public can be. That would be you. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. And while conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article, conventional wisdom is pretty stupid, too. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Christie Blatchford, Christopher Hitchens, David Frum, journalism, magazines, National Post, newspapers, writing

Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter

11/06/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn’t coincidental. Perhaps she […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Globe and Mail, Gregor Robertson, journalism, Maclean's, Occupy the World, twitter, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun

No WikiLove for Canada Day

07/04/2011 by backofthebook.ca

Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for its poor beleaguered editors by clicking on a Wikilove icon (a heart) and sending a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of negative criticism for some reason — perhaps for assuming authority even over experts by virtue of […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Australia, Canada, internet journalism, journalism, New Zealand, online media, online publishing, wikipedia

Mike Farnworth: gay matters

01/22/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it’s ready for a gay leader? It’s the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with NDP MLA Spencer […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Gary Mason, Globe and Mail, internet journalism, journalism, LGBTQ, Mike Farnworth, NDP, newspapers

The Harper marriage and the Globe

01/07/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher While you were enjoying the festive season, The Globe and Mail found itself disagreeing with one of its columnists about an item on its website. The Globe settled the matter with a keystroke. Both parties have since been studiously decorous about the matter, but it deserves a second look before disappearing down the memory hole. On […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Globe and Mail, internet, internet journalism, journalism, Laureen Harper, National Post, newspapers, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Stephen Harper

Our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll, v 2.0

11/22/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven’t done their job in covering 9/11. You’ll find that roster here. For this iteration, I’m expanding […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 9/11, CBC, Eric Margolis, Evan Solomon, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, Jonathan Kay, journalism, National Post, Sun Media

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