Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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News you can use

Just got off the phone with a friend of mine. She was talking to a personal injuries lawyer the other day who was absolutely livid that the media wasn't paying more attention to the tilting cruise ship in Florida, particularly when it came to publishing the names of injured Canadians. And why were those names so [...]

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Most compelling headline of the day!

From The Globe and Mail's Review section: C'mon, everybody loves a good fart joke

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Wells on Harper's media demons

Maclean's columnist Paul Wells rebuts some of Stephen Harper's pronouncements about the media dogs who, in the PM's mind, nip harder at the heels of Conservative prime ministers than Liberal ones. Some excerpts: “Man with a plan” is the headline over Stephen Harper's cover interview in the August Reader's Digest. The subhead informs us that [...]

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Inspirational

From a series of BBC vignettes with a Chinese dissident, journalist and filmmaker about the impact of the Internet on them: Li Xinde is a 43 year old journalist. He used to work for a state-controlled newspaper. But thanks to the internet, now he feels like a “real journalist.” He has gone freelance; criss-crossing China [...]

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