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NYT media columnist David Carr on the carnage in the Manhattan media industry and the incubation of the next generation. From the NYT: Those of us who covered media were told for years that the sky was falling, and nothing happened. And then it did. Great big chunks of the sky gave way and magazines [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Yes, Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia are horrible places for journalists, but Terry Gould explains why the Philippines are also a shooting gallery. From the Nov. 27 Globe and Mail: As Canadian journalists were celebrating the freeing of their colleague Amanda Lindhout from captivity in Somalia this week, their relief and joy were tempered by the [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The Toronto Star's Michelle Sheppard asks whether Amanda Lindhout really knew what she was getting into when she ventured to the lawless country of Somalia — and ended up being kidnapped and held for 15 months. From the Star: Before a brief trip to Mogadishu with a photographer, I had spent weeks researching, contacting dozens [...]
Sat, November 28 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the Globe and Mail: An American author and broadcaster claims Canadian border officials questioned her about whether she would discuss the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games at a speaking engagement Wednesday evening in Vancouver. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now , a radio and television show aired by public and college broadcasters across North America, [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
Maziar Bahari, a Canadian journalist employed by Newsweek who was arrested in Iran while covering the election unrest there, spoke with CTV News Channel on Thursday night. You can find the video attached to this CTV.ca story. He also had a commentary in Thursday's Globe and Mail: Why we have to talk with Tehran. Here's Bahari's [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Al-Jazeera English is coming where Al-Jazeera effectively wasn't allowed — Canadian TV screens. From the Globe and Mail: The English-language spinoff of Middle East news network Al Jazeera is coming to Canada. The CRTC approved a request to carry Qatar-based network Al Jazeera English via satellite, in a decision released Thursday, noting that “AJE will [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From CP via globeandmail.com: Montreal La Presse took a pair of major steps toward resolving a labour dispute Thursday, which likely ensure the survival of the 125-year-old newspaper. North America's biggest French-language broadsheet said in a statement it had reached a tentative deal with the last of its eight unions, the one representing distribution employees. [...]
Fri, November 27 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
This CTV.ca story has video attached of Amanda Lindhout being interviewed by CTV News Channel hours after she gained her freedom. Her release came exactly one month before Christmas (I wrote this on Christmas Eve of last year – Amanda Lindhout still isn't home). This time, she will be home with her family. But that [...]
Thu, November 26 2009 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
I did a story Tuesday about whether there are any positives to Ontario's coming imposition of a harmonized sales tax. For the TD's Don Drummond, the HST is a better tax that will help business. The question is whether the benefits of that will outweigh the higher taxes on some consumer items and some modest overall [...]
Wed, November 25 2009 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
The always-excellent Matt Taibbi dissects the dissecting of Sarah Palin as she does the hard slogging of flogging Going Rogue – although what he says about political reporters is not flattering to them. From True/Slant: (Nov. 23) Is the media out to get Sarah Palin? It seems like most of the letters I get are [...]
Wed, November 25 2009 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off