Category: Megalomedia

I was flipping TV channels one day and I heard a blip from a commentator who said he always reads the letters to the editor first when he opens his paper. “It let’s me know what the people are saying,” he said. In a way this is true. The letters to the editor section gives… Continue reading The voice of the people needs a little editing…

This post, she’s a-been, how you say, upty-dated.  This is actually the subject of my MediaScout column today (which I’m just finishing writing as I type) but I wanted to post here because, frankly, I’m pretty pissed off. Rather than retype my argument, I’ll just post the rough draft of my Scout post here for… Continue reading Lies, damn lies and statistics – the sequel

Since when were decisions taken instead of made? “The decision was taken.” I first encountered this delightful turn of phrase working in government relations and assumed it was another example of bureaucratese gone bad but I’m starting to see this more and more in my daily travels through the media. Can someone (I’m looking at… Continue reading Did I miss an etymological memo?

JonBenet Ramsey, JonBenet Ramsey, JonBenet Ramsey. I know, I don’t really care much about this whole story either but I happened across a really interesting piece from the San Francisco Gate website. Read it here. What I find most interesting is that in appologizing for the way the Ramseys were treated by the media, he’s… Continue reading This should get the hits up

The next time your daily newspaper (or news broadcast) of choice decides to lead with a story based on the results of a poll, remember this article.

One of the wonderful things about this here interweb is that people can access news sites from all over the world.  I frequently hit up Google‘s Canadian news site during the day; it’s always interesting to see how different outlets in Canada and around the world are spinning various stories. What I didn’t expect to… Continue reading Truth in advertising

Many of you reading this blog, and all of us posting on it, have been involved with the student press. We all took it pretty seriously – seriously enough, anyways, to try to produce a quality newspaper that served the students who paid for it (the paper was free, the student levies were not). We… Continue reading The end of the college newspaper…

“Of those 11 Canadian dead since January, six were killed in IED, or improvised explosive device, strikes or suicide bombings – roughly on target with the appalling casualties inflicted upon U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq, where about 60 per cent occur the same way. Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry also died in a Jan. 15… Continue reading Reporting the injured/wounded: Credit where credit is due

I’ve always thought of myself as a bad little blogger. Not because I update less and less frequently these days (though that does make me a bad blogger too) but because I’ve never really bought into the whole Internet Revolution(TM) Bloggers of the World Unite! thesis. Can blogs be a powerful tool? Sure, of course… Continue reading On blogging and evolutionary theories

Okay, the title has absolutely nothing to do with this post, I’ve just rediscovered my love of old skool Michael Jackson. Thriller baby, freakin’ Thriller. Anyway, for those who might have missed it, my MediaScout colleague Jonathan Montpetit pointed to an interesting front-page story from yesterday’s Globe. You can read it here.  Jon called it… Continue reading Beat it!