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It's not Globe Lite

October 6th, 2010
I coined the words the CBC used to describe the redesigned Globe and Mail, at least in the eyes of critics. I called it Globe Lite. I said that and I was wrong. The paper has impressed me since it launched its pared-down and classy new format last Friday. Despite a makeover its editor-in-chief describes as the most significant in the paper`s history, the Globe is still the Globe. Its stor ...
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Chicken journalism

October 6th, 2010
What does it say about a publishing company when it defends the editorial integrity of its journalists, but regrets what they do? Welcomed to the strange topsy-turvy world of Rogers Publishing. A week after Maclean's magazine touched off a storm in Quebec with a story that called it "The Most Corrupt Province in Canada," and illustrated it with a cover showing the mascot of the Quebec cit ...
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Free Conrad!

July 21st, 2010
To paraphrase Conrad Black, who was talking at the time about journalists: Ex-cons these days just seem so ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest and inadequately supervised. Crossharbour, until yesterday Prisoner No. 18330-424, has made his escape from the slammer after serving 28 months of a 61/2 year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice. He will be out on bail pend ...
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Honey, I shrunk CP

July 7th, 2010
Just four years ago, a Senate committee examined the state of Canada's news media and made a prescient plea: Please support The Canadian Press wire service. It's vital to the country. Since then, the country's two largest newspaper companies -- CanWest (in 2007) and Sun Media (this month) -- have pulled out of CP and that has triggered a radical restructuring that threatens the future of the ...
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The future is white

June 8th, 2010
Just how far Canada's corporate sector is from recognizing diversity as a core business value was evident in yesterday's Globe and Mail. A special section with the unfortunate headline "Celebrating our own" presented the Top 40 Under 40 award-winners. Labelled "a new generation of young leaders," their pictures and profiles covered eight pages and the back page of the Globe's Report on Bus ...
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Sold to vultures

May 11th, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of readers woke up today to news that their local newspaper has been sold -- and the new owner is something called "the ad hoc committee of Canwest's unsecured bondholders." If I were those readers, I would be very, very angry. In a $1.1 billion stroke, the leading newspapers in cities like Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal have fallen into th ...
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Good journalism

May 10th, 2010
An important victory for investigative journalism has just been won in Quebec, but most journalists probably overlooked it. That's too bad, because it demonstrates that good journalism can sometimes be found in unlikely places and that "public interest" and "responsible journalism" are increasingly being recognized by the courts in Canada. Quebec Superior Court Justice Catherine Mandeville ...
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Cowards on the Net

April 17th, 2010
Not too long ago, I got an email from someone I will call pcavenger@redspur.com. Obviously someone with a hate on for political correctness. The message was two lines long and made some rather creative suggestions for what I could do with my head. I thought up a witty reply and tried to send it, but of course it bounced. The ranter wasn't interested in dialogue, just delivering abuse, a su ...
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Say goodnight, CAB

April 15th, 2010
So the Canadian Association of Broadcasters is disbanding. Should anyone care? Anyone who cares about the accurate portrayal of visible minorities on television should care a lot. That’s because the CAB’s decision to throw in the towel after 84 years of attempting to represent Canada’s private broadcasters also puts an end to the country’s most interesting experiment in making media toe th ...
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Readers grow here

April 11th, 2010
Research done recently in Vancouver may provide clues to Toronto news media on how to reach what is often called "the other 50 percent" – those Canadians in the GTA who were born in another country and tend to be increasingly non-white. As their overall readerships and viewerships stagnate or decline, mainstream daily newspapers and TV news stations might assume that the trend is common ac ...
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