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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

WikiLeaks’ truth, Reuters’ “truth”

04/06/2010 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher We now know, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the US military lied about the killing of 11 Iraqi civlians, including two Reuters reporters, in 2007. “There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” said its spokesman at the time. But the classified video released […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Iraq, journalism, New York Times, newspapers, Reuters, US military, WikiLeaks

Newspapers: no going back

05/30/2009 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher We are beginning to see the outlines of the newspaper industry’s survival strategy, and it’s going to be this: since what we’ve been doing doesn’t work anymore, let’s go backwards and try something else that didn’t work. Namely, charging for online content. The signs are everywhere. When John Stackhouse succeeded Edward Greenspon […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Globe and Mail, internet, journalism, new media, New York Times, newspapers, online media, Rupert Murdoch, social media, television, U.S.

More shoe throwing, please

12/18/2008 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher Note the quid pro quo built into The Globe and Mail’s editorial on the subject of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who showed off his footwear to President Bush. “Mr. Zaidi gained his privileged access to Mr. Bush on the strength of his accreditation as a journalist,” intones the Globe. ” . […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Globe and Mail, journalism, law, neoconservatism, New York Times, newspapers, U.S.

Yesterday’s news

05/09/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By guest blogger Brian Brennan They’re all doing it now but still I have to wonder: Why are Canada’s daily newspapers encouraging their opinion columnists to simultaneously blog on the papers’ websites? I used to think — like media observers elsewhere — that newspaper blogs were meant to be dumping grounds for material the papers […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Antonia Zerbesias, Calgary Herald, CanWest, Edmonton Journal, journalism, National Post, New York Times, newspapers, online media, Toronto Star

About that $100,000, Ken . . .

06/06/2007 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Frank Moher Monday’s New York Times contained an article with the hed Trial of Black Raises Conflict Issue, about the game of Twister that Maclean’s has gotten itself into trying to cover the proceedings. It noted that Lady Black is the magazine’s star columnist, and both main trial correspondent Mark Steyn and publisher and […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Barbara Amiel, CanWest, Conrad Black, Globe and Mail, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, National Post, New York Times

Red, white, and deadly blue

04/28/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Dave Carpenter Reviewing the grimly fascinating fallout from Seung-Hui Cho’s Virginia Tech rampage and posthumous media spectre, I was particularly amazed by the Sunday New York Times’ colour-coded “info graphic,” illustrating how on average 81 Americans die each day from firearms. The cold hard truth that so many of them turn the barrel toward […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: New York Times, violence

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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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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...]

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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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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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