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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Wednesday, May 2

Canadian Journalist :: Citizen Media criticized

by DavidAkin on Wed 02 May 2007 10:54 PM EDT

A new book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen challenges blogs, citizen journalism and social networking sites, saying that they destroy culture and create “digital narcissism.” It's briefly discussed today on Editor's Weblog. An excerpt:

Keen, who ... more »

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Media gets it right in Quebec

by DavidAkin on Wed 02 May 2007 07:46 PM EDT

A quartet of Quebec-based academics took a look at the coverage of four newspapers during the most recent Quebec provincial election campaign and found no evidence of bias:

Quebec voters who selected their election season newspapers based on the expectation that their
paper’s news coverage would be tilted toward ... more »

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May says sorry, sort of ...

by DavidAkin on Wed 02 May 2007 12:57 PM EDT

Green Party leader Elizabeth May just put out the following statement in response to reaction to her comments in which she compared the Harper government’s Green Plan to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of Nazi appeasement in the 1930s.

Statement by Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada
“I ... more »

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