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Where’s The Beef?

Posted February 27, 2013 by torontosportsmedia

By TSM It’s like the dog days of summer in the middle of winter. “Why are you covering so much radio and nothing in print?” asked an emailer the other day. Ummmmmmm Well……. It’s seems to me that many a scribe have taken some time off. Or so it appears. [...]

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Ethics

Ethics in Exile

Posted February 23, 2013 by matttbastard

Silly Prince George Citizen, holding a staff writer  to account for generously liberating other writers’ work: To our shock and dismay, multiple incidents of plagiarism were uncovered from work over the last number of months. The staff member plagiarized various online new publications, while writing opinion pieces that appeared in this space. Entire paragraphs were […]

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David Corn and the 47% remark

Posted February 21, 2013 by Richard K. Barry

By Frank MoraesI like David Corn. He’s a good reporter. But people have made far too much about his article,SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters. That was the infamous 47% video. In announcing that Corn ha…

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Conservatives

"You Fucking Moron"

Posted February 4, 2013 by The Mad Bomber

Knock knock. “Who’s there?” A conservative woman to tell you that God hates feminists. “Get the fuck out of here you fucking moron!”by “Radical Comedian”As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on TwitterDecember 24, 2012

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Cosign With Jay Rosen

Posted February 3, 2013 by matttbastard

This: Editing by click rate is stupid and unethical. Chasing traffic is an abyss. The hamsterization of journalism is degrading the work environment for news professionals. Expecting reporters to report, write, blog, tweet, shoot video, sift the web, raise their metabolism, and produce more without time and training is guaranteed to fail. Trading in print dollars for digital [...]

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"The Embedded Reporter"

Posted February 2, 2013 by The Mad Bomber

Why did the embedded reporter cross the road? “Because there was a story that need a pro-military bias!”by “Radical Comedian”As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on TwitterJanuary 1, 2013

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Yes Bill, you are ill equipped

Posted February 1, 2013 by Norm Farrell

Nothing has changed since this article was first published May 15, 2012

Biill Good & Premier’s Director of Outreach

It was an interview so tortured that I suspect Bill Good’s briefing notes had fallen irretrievably from the desk just as his gue…

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‘Psychic’ James Van Praagh sues sister for using family name

Posted January 31, 2013 by Religion News Blog

‘Psychic’ James van Praagh is concerned that the public will be confused and deceived (but not in the way you might think). A court has rules that the polygamous cult known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) canno…

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Education

From quarks to quirk: A critical look at science journalism

Posted January 25, 2013 by Campus Notes

Journalism has the ability to uncover, to elucidate, and to share a variety of viewpoints and truths. As Daily writers, we think that sharing viewpoints that are not often heard, or that often get drowned out or outright silenced, is of particul…

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Dented Blue Mercedes: Offence as a Virtue

Posted January 24, 2013 by dentedbluemercedes

(Thanks to being sidelined with the flu several days, this is about a week late, but I thought I should archive it anyway)A controversy has ricocheted across the comment pages of the daily newspapers across the U.K. which has raised questions about fre…

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Covering the ‘war on terror’: In conversation with Robert Fisk

Posted January 21, 2013 by rabble staff

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Fisk's beat, when it comes down to it, is the collateral damage of what he calls "the unnecessary" war on terror, w…

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Who’s really tweeting and who’s not?

Posted January 16, 2013 by The Canadian Press

Hard to know which celebrities have ghost-tweeters

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The politics of wages

Posted January 6, 2013 by Nora Loreto

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I hate when right-wing pundits whine and complain about someone’s wages. Regardless of legitimacy of the points raised, these arguments are nearly always made to obscure a debate.
P…

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Acknowledging Antecedents, Again

Posted October 1, 2012 by Darren

In August, Hollis Thomases wrote some silly link-bait with the headline “11 Reasons a 23-Year-Old Shouldn’t Run Your Social Media“. Designed to rile up millennials, it got a lot of attention online. Its share numbers–how many people have shared it on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and so forth–exceed all of the current ‘Most Viewed’ stories on [...]

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Globe and Mail, or Cut and Paste?

Posted September 23, 2012 by Colby Cosh

In January, the Globe and Mail appointed longtime editor and correspondent Sylvia Stead its…

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7 Reasons Why Working Heals…

Posted September 19, 2012 by Sandy Naiman

I’m not dead. I’m still here. I’m not “away” in a mental hospital. I’m not manic and flying. You may have thought that and I wouldn’t blame you. Quite the contrary – I’m thriving on work… Work is the greatest therapy of all. Here’s why: Work gives you a sense of purpose and we all [...]

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