CBC News to relaunch on Monday
Newsworld will morph into the CBC News Network (the CNN of Canada, if you will) and the Corpse’s flagship TV news show, The National, will get a makeover (faster pace, same journalism, says Peter M.).
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<em>Globe</em> columnists on the 'balloon boy' hoax
I snipped a few thoughts from John Doyle and Lynn Crosbie on the bizarre “balloon boy” saga. First, Doyle: It's a TV thing. It's another thing too. At regular intervals something scuzzy and cringe-inducing emerges from the television-centric popular culture in the United States and screams out for attention. That attention usually involves high-volume tut-tutting. [...]
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Punking the Washington press corps
The intriguing lede to Mitch Potter's story in the Toronto Star: “You attend a press conference. The newsmaker speaks. You run a DNA test to confirm they are who they claim to be. And then you publish.” From the Star: An absurd notion. But only marginally more absurd than the high comedy that played out [...]