Archive
9 Aug

Corporate control of information

A couple of interesting items this week about corporate control of public information: A major U.S. telco censored two lines in a telecast of the band Pearl Jam. The lines […]

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9 Aug

Yahoo grilled over role in Chinese jailing

The behaviour of Yahoo and Google in China has long been controversial, because of allegations that the companies comply with Chinese censorship. Now Yahoo is on the hot seat before […]

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8 Aug

Deadlines: it’s make or break for freelancers

by Lezlie Lowe Do you own a calendar and know where to locate it? Yes, you say? Then you’re already a step ahead of scads of freelance journalists out there […]

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7 Aug

Info-porn: enough already

From a report on the CBC web site: A survey conducted this July shows nearly nine out of 10 adult Americans believe there is too much coverage of celebrity scandals. […]

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7 Aug

Climate change: misreporting?

A story by Mike De Souza of CanWest concerns a report blaming mainstream U.S. media for “stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change.” An excerpt of […]

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7 Aug

Media and Chinese Olympics

From the RSF news release in Canada:     MONTREAL, Aug. 7 /CNW Telbec/ – Reporters Without Borders staged events around the world to denounce the appalling human rights situation in […]

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7 Aug

Extending McLuhan to new media

If the medium is the message, what are blogs, podcasts and social networking sites telling us? In this PBS MediaShift column, University of Toronto professor Robert K. Logan offers a synopsis […]

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6 Aug

Alain Accardo, Journalistes précaires, journalistes au quotidien (extraits)

Gilles Balbastre, Acrimed.org | Présentation : Le secteur de la presse est certainement de ceux où la précarisation des petits salariés est la plus galopante. La corporation, pourtant truffée de grandes […]

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6 Aug

La crise des crises

André Pratte, La Presse Crise des algues bleues, crise de la vache folle, crise du budget, crise du logement, crise forestière, crise du bois-d’oeuvre, crise des urgences, crise du Suroît, […]

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6 Aug

Chérie, ils ont rétréci mon journal

Richard Hétu, La Presse Après le Wall Street Journal, le USA Today et plusieurs autres journaux nord-américains, c’est au tour du New York Times de devenir plus étroit All the […]

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