Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots

Outlaw cinema!

One story I did for CTV News Online about the Toronto International Film Festival was on the Midnight Madness program. The headline is Midnight Madness screens cinema's wilder side. I have an admittedly soft spot for this type of film. While the realities of working for a living sometimes impede on one's ability to go to [...]

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Paragraph or numbers?

David Brooks, one of the NYT's designated conservatives, has an interesting column entitled Ruling Class War. “There are two sorts of people in the information-age elite, spreadsheet people and paragraph people. Spreadsheet people work with numbers, wear loafers and support Republicans. Paragraph people work with prose, don't shine their shoes as often as they should [...]

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