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24 Mar

What if they held a war and nobody reported it?

Iraq coverage by major American news sources has dropped to about one-fifth of what it was last summer, says a New York Times story, which also notes, “the drop in […]

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20 Mar

Criticize CanWest, get sued

Just why has CanWest Global — the giant media company in an industry that is rightfully leery of libel chill and which relies on the right to freedom of expression […]

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20 Mar

Bill C-10 and the censorship question

“Canadian TV news has been hopeless in capturing the meaning of the implied censorship behind Bill C-10,” writes John Doyle in a Globe and Mail column. The omnibus bill would […]

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19 Mar

Iraqi journalists in exile — but Bush says “liberation” working

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago, Iraq has become the world’s deadliest country for media while hundreds of Iraqi journalists have been forced into exile because of […]

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11 Mar

Wii rules

“Occasionally, despite their aim to represent objective journalism, newspapers have to assert an ethical position on divisive issues. The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Weymouth, recently instituted the inalienable right to […]

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10 Mar

Why I Write: Stanley Fish explains

“Every once in a while I feel that it might be helpful to readers if I explained what it is I am trying to do in these columns,” wrote Stanley […]

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10 Mar

Las Vegas Sun more wrong than right?

A lengthy correction in the March 4 Las Vegas Sun has drawn both praise and suspicion from the media industry. On the one hand, it’s very brave of the Sun to […]

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5 Mar

Appeal court got it right; press freedom not absolute

In a March 4 opinion piece featured on the Globe and Mail website, Ryerson journalism professor John Miller argues the Ontario Court of Appeal made the right decision last week […]

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4 Mar

Happy or angry journalist?

If you fit into one of the above categories, and you want to tell the world how you feel, there are a couple of sites you should check out. HappyJournalist.com […]

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3 Mar

Torontolife.com launches blog covering media, power and egos

(Reprinted with permission from Masthead Online) Although Douglas Bell was one of dozens of Canadian journalists covering media baron Conrad Black’s trial in Chicago last year, his approach often veered […]

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