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The Village Voice's Sydney Schanberg thinks it's time for American reporters to fight back against the media manipulations of the Bush White House. An excerpt: The press is now looking squarely at a perversion of government. The administration of George W. Bush has raised secrecy and information control to a level never before seen in Washington. [...]
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Paul Martin is going to make a prime-time speech to Canadians on Thursday. On his blog, Warren Kinsella said: “Wow. They're going prorogue. Amazing. I wonder when the radio and television stations are going be seized, and the Opposition parties imprisoned? Amazing. This means a Conservative majority. Count on it.” But that might be wishful thinking [...]
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Conrad Black and David Radler have resigned as officers and directors of Ravelston, which is Conrad's private holding company. An excerpt from the globeandmail.com story: Lord Black and his business partner David Radler quit as officers and directors of the company, a lawyer for Ravelston told Ontario Superior Court Wednesday as the company sought bankruptcy-court [...]
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Saw this first at David Akin's blog: NBC is considering having their anchors and stars blog as a way to build relations with audiences (come for the blog, stay for the broadcast! :) ). An excerpt from the Reuters story via Yahoo! News: NBC could create Internet blogs for its top news anchors and celebrity [...]
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Tory MP Jason Kenney reportedly told CBC Newsworld that no decision has been taken by his party on a spring election. An excerpt from the globeandmail.com story: Mr. Kenney said the Tories will spend next week's parliamentary break speaking with constituents before deciding whether to introduce a no-confidence motion. He cautioned that at this point [...]
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Ann Coulter, one of the more toxic conservative voices in American punditry, is a cover girl for Time magaine. Salon’s Eric Bohlert offers his thoughts.
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The Toronto Star's Chantal Hebert thinks the minority Liberals have doomed themselves to likely defeat in Parliament with their manipulation of opposition days. But she also admits it might be a case of the Liberals wanting to choose on which sword they will fall. An excerpt: The Liberal scorched-earth approach to managing the agenda of [...]
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Ravelston Corp., an entity privately held by Conrad Black, is going to court today to seek bankruptcy protection. An excerpt from the Toronto Star article: Ravelston Corp., the closely held holding company Conrad Black has used for decades to control his one-time publishing empire, is seeking bankruptcy protection and receivership, saying it faces an “immediate [...]
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This NYT column by Maureen Dowd looks at some of the, er, out-of-the-box thinking being considered as people try to remake U.S. network television news. An excerpt: In the free fall of TV news, ABC's attempt to create a successor for Ted Koppel's “Nightline” will go down as one of the most hilariously embarrassing moments. One [...]
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So, if you watched question period on Tuesday, you'll know the opposition went nutso over Warren Kinsella's allegations about the Martinites and Earnscliffe. Me? I was hemming and hawing yesterday, wondering whether it would be that or Claude Boulay's testimony. But besides that, the nasty spat over controlling opposition days — and possibly the timing [...]
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