America’s great cleaving
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow outlines how the recent U.S. midterm election revealed a nation retreating from moderation in its politics. This has journalistic implications.
Tue, November 9 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media, politics » 1 Comment
Lying in politics? Everybody does it
Further to my Queen’s Quay Karen post, here are some remarks uttered Friday by Nick Kouvalis, who managed the campaign of Toronto’s mayor-elect Rob Ford.
Sat, November 6 2010 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off
Queen’s Quay Karen
My last post was about the emphemeral nature of online life and relationships. This one is about outright fakery.
Tue, November 2 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media, politics » 9 Comments
The media, democracy and the mayor
Toronto’s Mayor David Miller believes journalists should spend more time going deeper on serious issues and less on the catchy but trivial. Sure, but is there really an audience for such reportage, even in election years?
Tue, October 12 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media, politics » 4 Comments
Trust = confirmation bias
Read this U.S. Gallup poll to see what I mean. Here’s the slide that caught my eye: For background, read my Aug. 27 post: A house united in ignorance cannot stand. A October 2004 survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) on the separate realities of Bush and Kerry supporters is a must-read. Bush supporters [...]
Wed, September 29 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off
‘Quebecor Media Inc. Announces the Departure of Mr. Kory Teneycke, Vice President, Development’
You wake up, stretch, take a shower. And when you step out of the shower and go to the computer to see what’s flowing through the Intertubes, you find out that Kory Teneycke is no longer heading the Sun TV project. In fact, you learn he no longer has a job.
Wed, September 15 2010 » Main Page, Media, photos, politics » Comments Off
The ‘fake lake’ continued
So the Conservative government spent its Tuesday trumpeting that the fake lake only cost $57,000. The $1.9 million cost is for the whole pavilion — a “marketing pavilion,” no less, they said. Fine, but I’m still looking for an explanation as to why they spent $23 million on Huntsville’s hockey rink to make it a nice, shiny media [...]
Tue, June 8 2010 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off
Wed, April 21 2010 » Main Page, Minutiae, multimedia, politics » Comments Off
The sorry state of federal ATI
The Globe and Mail, to its credit, treated this issue as a big deal on Wednesday. It led off with a short set-up, front-page column by John Ibbitson then went in to a full page of stories plus an editorial.
Thu, April 15 2010 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off
Help! Please, help!
I can’t understand a damned thing that Angelo Persichelli wrote about in the Sunday Star. It seems to be something of a swipe at the opposition on Parliament Hill and the Parliamentary press gallery. I read it several times over the course of the day, but it made my eyes tired and my mind foggy.
Mon, February 15 2010 » Main Page, Media, politics » Comments Off