Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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Apologies accepted

On Nov. 11, I posted a link to

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Tue, November 16 2004 » Main Page » Comments Off

That's not objective!

Behold, the notorious morning-after front page of England's Daily Mirror:

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A short course in political framing

Well, not a course, a column. The NYT’s Adam Cohen writes about linguistics prof George Lakoff and how framing an issue can predetermine the outcome of a debate:

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A well-deserved slap upside the NHL’s head

A buddy of mine forwarded me this column by King Kaufman, a Salon writer, who nicely summarizes and enhances a Forbes article on the NHL’s mendaciousness about its economic problems:

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Yet another big misunderstanding

File this in the ‘continuing persecution of hard-working achievers’ folder:

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Fearless in Fallujah

The Globe and Mail profiles Tara Sutton, a Canadian journalist who has worked inside Fallujah — and did it with $500 and a camera. Here's an excerpt: LONDON — When she woke up in Baghdad one morning in April, Canadian journalist Tara Sutton didn't know that by nightfall she'd be the lone Westerner shooting footage [...]

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