Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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To pay for journalistic content, or not to pay?

Toronto Star public editor Kathy English muses about how wouldn't it be luverly to charge for online news content. The small irony of that is I read the column after getting the Saturday Star newspaper for free when I got a LT bagel combo at the Spadina/Queen West Mickey D's (they forgot to put the bacon [...]

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Sun, February 15 2009 » Main Page, Media » 4 Comments

A never-ending story

The Globe and Mail has done much to shine a spotlight on the issue of mental health with its series Breakdown. Unfortunately, editor-in-chief Edward Greenspson found himself to be uttering these words today: “I want to know if there were cracks in the system that led to this. All of us need to be concerned with the [...]

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