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The Public Policy Forum has released a report (.pdf file) about the state of Canadian journalism, as based on a “round table” discussion with some high-profile journalists (thanks to Jacques Poitras, who posted to Canadian Journalist). I haven't had time to read it in depth, but there was no one from CTV or Global on [...]
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The Globe and Mail has an editorial today based in part on CBC prez Robert Rabinovitch's appearance on CBC's The Current on Monday. (You can listen to Rabinovitch here. The show also did a segment with the N-P's Andrew Coyne and UBC's Donna Logan on the CBC.) Carole Taylor, a former CBC chair, also talks about [...]
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NYT reporter Judith Miller, currently being excoriated over Plamegate, was given a security clearance by the Pentagon so she could go out and join the search for WMDs in Iraq. Poynter's Jim Romenesko posted a note on Sunday from retired CBS News correspondent Bill Lynch (an excerpt follows): There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith [...]
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Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, says NYT reporter Judith Miller, who figures prominently in both Plamegate and reporting on WMDs, should be fired for crimes against journalism. An excerpt: Revealing her working methods, perhaps too clearly, Miller writes that at her second meeting with Libby on this matter, on July 8, 2003, he [...]
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Democracy Now! speaks with Newsweek journo Michael Isikoff and Editor and Publisher editor Greg Mitchell — who thinks NYT executive editor Bill Keller should fire Judith Miller and apologize to the paper's readers. Some excerpts: AMY GOODMAN: On the phone to talk with us about these latest developments is Michael Isikoff, investigative reporter with Newsweek. [...]
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American social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich, in her 50s, went looking for a job. Bait and Switch is the story of her 10-month exercise in futility. Ehrenreich spoke with Democracy Now! Some excerpts: BARBARA EHRENREICH: I went undercover this time as a, well, PR person — right? — because I’m a journalist, that goes with PR, to [...]
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Check out the Daily Show website and see if they posted the video clip of Dubya's scripted news conference with troops in Iraq from last Thursday. Mucho amusing! Salon blogged about it, as did CBS News — primarily to take a shot at an NBC media stunt. But Bush's performance plus Jonno's commentary is an unbeatable [...]
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