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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.
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Tom Popyk just posted this interesting tidbit up on the CAJ-List: McGill University's Observatory on Media and Public Policy is tracking news coverage and bias [for the June 28, 2004 Canadian federal election]: "Each day, a team of coders will scrutinize the main news sections of the Globe ...   more »
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Tom Mangan is a copy editor (I think -- correct me if I'm wrong anyone who might know) at the San Jose Mercury News and ran one of the best blogs for folks who worked in a print newsroom. It was called "Print The Chaff" and it was funny, informative, ...   more »
View Article  Credibility, Blogs, and How Newspapers Work
One of the problems with mining the Internet for sources and info, of course, is verifying the identify of authors of what looks like interesting material. Such is the case here with an alternatingly funny/cynical/misguided/spot-on blog entry by a fellow named Steve Gilliard. I have no idea what Gilliard is ...   more »
View Article  Great line in a movie review
The New York Times > Movies > Movie Review | 'The Day After Tomorrow': Smart Hero. Dumb Officials. Huge Sheet of Ice.:
""The Day After Tomorrow" is rated Pg-13. Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes drugs."   more »
View Article  The Rebirth of the New York Review of Books
One of my favourite periodicals is the New York Review of Books. Scott Sherman has a piece that looks at the rebirth of this publication in a recent issue of The Nation. It's a good article and I didn't realize until I was reading Sherman's assessment of the NYRB that ...   more »
View Article  Broadband beats the newsstand
The Heartland Institute (a U.S.-based education reform activist group, so far as I can tell) reports on a study, jointly authored by the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pew Foundation that looks at newspaper readership in the U.S. In Who Will Read Newspapers?. the Heartland Institute concludes that ...   more »
View Article  Springfield, the Map
Guide to Springfield USA is "A highly detailed map of the Simpsons' hometown" was put together by its creators by watching and re-watching all those Simpsons episodes. I'm a Simpsons fan. Millions of others are, too. This is a great way to kill an hour learning such esoterica as where ...   more »
View Article  Blog searching
Librarian Christina Pikas has some advice for those who need to search blogs. "Blogs are everywhere," she writes, "and it is important to either be able to search them or to make sure you’re not searching them when you are looking for authoritative, accurate, and unbiased information. As blogs ...   more »
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View Article  Canada is lone G8 offshore outsourcing destination
Paul Kedrosky points to a new study which looks at the top destinations for offshore outsourcing. India is number one and Canada is ninth. From Kedrosky's blog: Infectious Greed: Offshoring to Canada: "Interestingly, there is only one G8 country in the list: Canada. I'm not convinced that is anything ...   more »

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