New
York Times issues one Mea Culpa after another for its Iraq coverage.
Says it published slanted information leading up to the war and occupation, was duped by the Pentagon.
The
foreign correspondent: Why aren't you in Rafah?
A journalist outs the Globe and Mail for "reporting" the massacre
at the Rafah refugee camp from the comfort of Jerusalem. JON ELMER
Health
Canada wins Code of Silence award
The Canadian Association
of Journalists says Health Canada is the most secretive government department
in Canada.
The quagmire of the US media.
the US media have been covering the occupation of Iraq as a story of faraway clashes and uncertainties.
In the process, the term "quagmire" has become a central part of the American media discourse.
Sinking in their own spin
Information straight out of the spin dryer is bad news for democracy.
Why do we condemn anti-semitism more than
anti-Islam?
Today, any anti-Semitism incident will be met
with strong condemnation from the media, governments and
nearly all quarters of civil society. And that is as it should be.
When in doubt,
just blame the unions
The overwhelming anti-union bias of business commentators, repeated so
often it infiltrates popular common-sense wisdom.
Worth
repeating: the echos of the past
Disinformation and demonization
preceed slaughter.
WAHIDA C. VALIANTE
Challenging how the Halifax Daily News "reports" opposition on Iraq. (01/5/04) We need to
be clear: the U.S. is an occupying army, after oil and power.
JAN MEYEROWITZ
Provocation within a provocation: State-organized racist attacks over the CBC News (15/4/04) HALIFAX --There is a wave of provocations under way against the unity of the Canadian people, against what tends to draw them together. GARY ZATZMAN
A
happy compromise: hate crime reporting in the Globe & Mail
(14/4/04) PETERBOROUGH --The Globe and Mail is a respectable paper.
It's probably the most respectable paper in Canada. What's more, it's
not owned by hard-line Zionists; Toronto has Izzy Asper's National Post
to fill that slot.
MICHAEL
NEUMANN
ANDREW MITROVICA
Campaign against foreign ownership of Canada's media and telecommunications industries (26/1/04) OTTAWA --A day-long conference January 15 in Ottawa examined the status of foreign ownership in the broadcast and telecommunications sectors. The conference participants agreed to mount a co-ordinated campaign to keep the media and telecommunications sectors in Canadian hands.
The
Martin Luther King you don't see on TV
(19/1/04) Halifax --It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January,
around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network
news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."
JEFF
COHEN & NORMAN SOLOMON
$1
million lawsuit against the St. Catharines Standard
(6/12/03) BRANTFORD
--Human rights activist Susan Howard-Azzeh launched a $1 million lawsuit
against CanWest Global Communications, for defamation.
SCOTT
STOCKDALE
Media
comes out the loser in political forum
(3/12/03) Vancouver --Canadians could wake up one morning to find their
democracy all but gone.
GREG FULTON
Freedom
of the press is for those who own one
(11/10/03) Sackville
--We face classic problems of monopoly media ownership
in which homogeneity and a narrow range of opinion are common features
of the news media.
Dr. Erin Steuter
Acadian
journalists question
feudal empires
(10/10/03) MONCTON
--"Media concentration is worse in Canada than
in other industrialized countries; in New Brunswick, way worse."
DRU OJA JAY
Hurricane Juan and depleted uranium (24/9/03) BLUE ROCKS --The Canadian Forces were cleaning up unexploded shells from the 1940s (WW2) "and other debris". Why isn't the Herald telling us what this "other debris" is or could be? Mitzi Bowman
Halifax Herald: Blaming the victims (22/9/03) Halifax --Editorial staff of The Herald delete main points in letter. TONY SEED
Canwest
Global's attempts to equate fight for the human rights with "anti-semitism"
--"They're
essentially calling us anti-Semitic, with the very serious, implicit message
that anyone who stands up for human rights, they're going to try to silence."
TONY SEED
Canwest's
Godfather: mafioso tactics? --Asper fumbles: "I have no
idea what he's talking about."
TONY SEED
The Nova Scotia elections: A media above society (18/7/03) --The monopoly media in Nova Scotia played a leading role in trivializing the recent provincial election and marginalizing the real concerns and problems of the people, says Bruce Wark, media critic and professor of journalism at King's College School of Journalism in Halifax. TONY SEED
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The
invaders are haunted by their own pragmatic ethos
(3/4/03) OTTAWA-HULL --In this war of aggression against Iraq, it has
become clear that the invaders are haunted by their own pragmatic ethos
that “nothing succeeds like success.”
SANDRA L. SMITH
The "free press" (1/12/02) --Stephen Kimber, director of the school of journalism at the University of King's College, has resigned from The Daily News, protesting censorship of his columns by Southam monopoly.
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