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From the June 29 globeandmail.com story: A police attempt to seize true-crime author Derek Finkle's files foundered yesterday when an Ontario judge blasted investigators for casting too wide a net. “Fishing season is over; the subpoenas are quashed,” said Mr. Justice David Watt of the Superior Court of Ontario. Judge Watt said police and prosecutors in the [...]
Sat, June 30 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the BBC: A car on fire has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, police have confirmed. Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath. They have also described seeing two Asian men, one of whom was on fire, who [...]
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Ryerson University j-prof John Miller has some critical words for how the news media covered the 1995 Ipperwash dispute — and how they can do better in the future. From the Toronto Star: Most of the evidence of the failure of journalism at Ipperwash was presented to the inquiry by Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, [...]
Sat, June 30 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
That is the grim headline on the Guardian's website, regarding the news that two car bombs were found in West London early Friday. They are described as Iraqi-style car bombs. From the Guardian story: Only luck and probable faults in the bombs' construction meant that the first device, inside a metallic green Mercedes, could be [...]
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From the NYT: The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country’s lawless tribal areas and that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country. The warning came in a document from the Interior Ministry, [...]
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From the Manohla Dargis review in the NYT: The use of Parkour during several fight scenes is particularly tasty, proving that when cinematic push comes to shove, the French, who originated this ultra-cool rough-and-tumble, which finds performers bouncing like balls from wall to wall, rooftop to rooftop and many hair-raising points in between, are definitely [...]
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Escape from Suburbia, the follow-up film to The End of Suburbia, premiered tonight at the Bloor Theatre. Here's some excerpts from Christopher Hume's column in the Toronto Star: This time around, (director Gregory) Greene and producer Dara Rowland concentrate more on what can be done than on what's wrong. We know that part of the [...]
Fri, June 29 2007 » * Big Picture Stuff, Film, Main Page » Comments Off
From a Newspaper Guild news release: (h/t to Romenesko) Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning. We did so for two reasons. First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence, which has been the hallmark of our news coverage for decades, is threatened today. We, [...]
Thu, June 28 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From The Tyee: For many Canadians this news may fall into the same category as the denominational preference of the Pope and the excretory habits of bears, but we still thought you'd like to know: A new study suggests that unionized journalists in Canada believe that their bosses put profits before good journalism. The survey, [...]
Thu, June 28 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Globeandmail.com posted a CP story about how the CBC/Facebook wish list project got hijacked by special interest groups (something the blogosphere has noted for some time).