Author: joeboughner

Wow, a guy doesn’t get around to reposting his daily rant and people get testy. Thanks to everyone who posted or wrote to me about that, I guess people really are reading this bad boy. WARNING: Self-promotion ahead. Media rants follow. As I mentioned last week, I was in Montreal discussing some possibly exciting developments… Continue reading Cynics of the world, unite!

erm, this wasn’t supposed to happen with my new iBook. But I was in the process of publishing today’s post and something went awry. I’ll repost it later today, but I’m too sleepy to type it all again now. -j

I am going to keep this post brief, cause I’m off to Montreal today and I need to get ready to roll. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll have some big news about this site for you based on my trip, but in the meantime, let’s rant. The Star sinks to Citizen levels A… Continue reading Smoked Meat Mission Redux

I never thought it would get to the point that I’d lose sympathy for Juliet O’Neill. But after a solid 16 months of the Citizen parading her across their pages at every minor milestone in her legal battle, I’m pretty tired of it all. Yes, what happened to her was brutal and offensive, but how… Continue reading Happy Press Freedom Day!

Holy crap, it’s May. Anyone know where April went? I could have sworn I’d left it here somewhere. But ’tis the season of renewal; birds are singing, trees are in bloom and the UN is starting to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. I love that the U.S. – the same country that developed and is… Continue reading Happy May to all

So I went to a screening of the really kick ass doc Control Room last night. There was a QnA afterwards with Sammer Khadar, the al Jazeera producer featured in the doc, as well as the founder of Reporters Without Borders and a really interesting French journalist whose name escapes me. Anyway, it started half-an-hour… Continue reading Megalomedia – Deals with the devil since 1980

The Toronto Sun called the deal struck between the NDP and the Liberals a “socialist fantasy,” but for some reason, they meant that in a negative way. Yes, I can see how money for post-secondary education, environmental initiatives, foreign aid and pensions will destroy Canada. They even agreed to keep corporate tax cuts for small… Continue reading Socialist fantasy indeed

I’d like to thank everyone who helped with the Actionline alert yesterday, several people contacted the Post and many others signed up for future alerts. And in case you’re wondering if it made a difference. . . “A tanker explosion outside the main United States base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, that destroyed five fuel trucks on… Continue reading Well don’t that beat all

Okay, so I’ve been doing this site for awhile now. Until today, it was meant to raise awareness, to make people think critically. But as Senor Anderpants pointed out to me last week, CanWest and the gang aren’t reading this blog. To that end, I’m pleased to introduce the Megalomedia Actionline. This is upping the… Continue reading A call to arms

Wow. Holy shit-ass fucking wow. I don’t normally comment on Dose, the trendy new free daily for young people published by the “Calgary Herald Group” (or “CanWest” to the rest of us), but wow. On today’s cover, they ran a series of screen captures from Martin’s speech last night with captions made up of Martin… Continue reading Special Friday Post: Dose ruined my weekend