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NDP Leader Jack Layton tried to throw PM PM a too-short lifeline: He's offered to prop up the federal Libs' minority government if the Grits cancel some corporate tax cuts. But he doesn't quite have the numbers to guarantee the government's survival if everyone is in the House of Commons on the big day, presumably May 19 or [...]
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Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie gave a speech Tuesday at the University of Kentucky. It's very much worth a read. It's posted at poynter.org. Some excerpts: Newspapers in Chicago and Atlanta uncovered waste, mismanagement and fraud in their local governments, which prompted much-needed changes. The New York Times revealed that some major railroad companies [...]
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According to this Washington Post story (seen first at Jim Romanesko's Poynter blog), Karl Rove played media critic earlier this week. Some excerpts from the mouth of Bush's Brain: For more than an hour, he lectured about everything that is wrong with journalism, and his conclusion may surprise conservatives such as Tom DeLay, who has [...]
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A reporter got tossed at the L.A. Times because the paper's editors had major problems with a story about a fraternity hazing death. But the reporter, Eric Slater, is blaming editing errors for some of the problems with the story, although he took responsibility for others. Excerpts from the NYT story: The newspaper announced the [...]
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As some of you may have noticed, I hit the 1,000 post mark earlier this week. One of my regular visitors, Sarah Marchildon (who has a very amusing blog of her own), offered to treat me to an ice cream cone! However, I live in Toronto. She lives in Vancouver and wasn't very specific in [...]
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Al Gore, the guy who's shutting down Newsworld International, is looking CBC's very cool show ZeD as an inspiration for his new cable network, Current TV, which is set to open this summer. An excerpt: When Dave Grafstein, Current TV's top software programmer, visited CBC Television in Vancouver last week, he was there to find out [...]
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