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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Wednesday, January 14
The Perp Walk
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jan 2004 02:25 PM EST
A lot of critics of American capitalism and American society often point to
the different way regular bad guys -- drug dealers, bank robbers, and thugs
-- are treated differently than white collar criminals by the media. Local
television news programs in the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, for example,
... more »
We're geeks. We read books. We hang out with real people.
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jan 2004 11:42 AM EST
Reuters reports on a study by the World Internet Project,
which, among other things, dispels the stereotype of the computer geek as a
loner staring into his computer screen all day. Computer geeks -- and I'm
proud to be part of that herd -- tend to watch a lot less ... more »
Monday, January 12
Conan says no to the Post
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 12 Jan 2004 10:51 PM EST
Now this is a
bit silly --
The Conan O'Brien show -- to be taped shortly in Toronto - won't let
journalists from the National Post
in because it doesn't like the Post's coverage of the event.
The Post, earlier had played up the fact, in a front page story, ... more »
More on that Pew Report on the Press, the Internet, and Politics
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 12 Jan 2004 10:36 PM EST
I
blogged on this about a minute ago and immediately ran across more
discussion. So here's what I found:
Survey: Internet Grows as Campaign News Source
Reuters - Daily newspapers and nightly network newscasts are
declining as primary sources of presidential campaign news for many
Americans, says a new survey ... more »
TV loses influence; Internet gains, among news consumers
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 12 Jan 2004 10:11 PM EST
A new report from the folks at The Pew Research Project says that the 2004 presidential campaign in the United States is notable for the way voters/consumers are getting their information about that race and the
issues:
Television news remains dominant, but there has been further erosion in the audience... more » Saturday, January 10
Stop the presses! People use the Internet to meet friends!
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 10 Jan 2004 11:03 AM EST
I'm reading Margaret MacMillan's fabulous Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World and in it, she notes that the U.S., in preparation for the peace negotiations that were to follow World War I had commissioned scholars and others to prepare more than 60 reports on the Far East and ... more »
Blogging for journalists - help me with a seminar
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 10 Jan 2004 10:29 AM EST
For the last several years, I've led some workshops at the annual conference for the Canadian Association of Journalists on computer-assisted reporting. This year, though, I'm going to lead a workshop and participate in a panel on blogging for journalists. I've started asking other journalists for their input as ... more »
Friday, January 9
Here come those tech stocks again .. .
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Jan 2004 03:55 PM EST
From a piece I did for CTV's National News tonight: Don't look now but tech stocks are back. Shares of Nortel have increased nearly eight-fold in just over a year; Intel and Hewlett-Packard are at 52-week highs; and investors are ... more »Friday, January 2
A challenge for educators when it comes to media literacy
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Jan 2004 09:41 PM EST
If I could switch professional places with anyone, it would likely be with Henry Jenkins, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose job is to read lots of newspapers, watch all kinds of TV programs,
ingest all kinds of books, collect comics and play videogames. He does all
... more »
A year for consolidation in Canada's media sector?
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Jan 2004 09:22 PM EST
My former colleague Barb Shecter -- at not one, but two papers, in fact --- makes the rounds of the possible scenarios for more consolidation in Canada's media sector in 2004-05. Some old rumours in this good read but
also plenty of new ones. She touches on just about ... more »
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