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Media Watch blog
Media Watch aims to shine a light on a wide range of media, providing a survey of different news and views from global media, as well as exposing uninformed editorials and inaccurate reporting.
Blog - Media Watch blog August 15 Nick Fillmore | The creation of even one sustainable, independent newspaper project anywhere in Canada would be a huge, unprecedented accomplishment. |
Blog - Media Watch blog July 11 Nick Fillmore | A new report asking the federal government for $350 million to prop up Canada's newspapers is out of step with the times. |
Blog - Media Watch blog June 27 Nick Fillmore | The Trudeau government is taking an important first step forward from the cynical Harper era. During the months and years ahead we will hopefully witness the rebuilding of the CBC. |
Blog - Media Watch blog January 27 Nick Fillmore | In his new report, Greenspon has the nerve to write that Canada needs mainstream media to protect democracy. Who endorsed Stephen Harper for a fifth term again? |
Blog - Media Watch blog September 26 Sophia Reuss | Canadian media needs to dispense with false ideas of "objectivity" when it comes to colonized peoples -- and all systems of oppression -- and practice solidarity instead. |
Blog - Media Watch blog September 7 Nick Fillmore | Content, not style and not personalities, should be the focus of a re-built post-Mansbridge National. |
Blog - Media Watch blog August 18 Joanna Chiu | Canada likes to imagine itself as a multicultural and diverse society. But its media simply doesn't reflect this belief -- and that's got to change. |
Blog - Media Watch blog June 23 Nick Fillmore | Journalists used to be taught to report not what people say but what they do. What's changed? |
Blog - Media Watch blog June 20 Errol Salamon | The union requires the 57 Herald workers to spend at least 20 hours of their time per week supporting the strike effort to earn strike pay. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 26 Nick Fillmore | Nick Fillmore recalls some of the great names in North American journalism over the past few decades -- and how the landscaper of corporate media has changed. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 25 Dalia Thamin | Four of the top 10 best women squash players in the world are Egyptian Muslims -- but such feel-good stories never make the Western press. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 20 Dalia Thamin | The human cost of the recent EgyptAir disappearance over the Mediterrenean gave way to continuous experts' speculations about whether a bomb or cockpit sabotage was the reason for the crash. |
Blog - Media Watch blog February 4 Nick Fillmore | The best solution to our growing news crisis is for governments to provide the financial support needed so that community-based online news sites will be sustainable. |
Blog - Media Watch blog February 3 Nick Fillmore | A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better. |
Blog - Media Watch blog November 4 Cathy Edwards, Meg Borthwick | Tomorrow is the deadline for Canadians (that's you) to tell the CRTC how it should update its local and community TV policy. TV? Who watches TV anymore? |
Blog - Media Watch blog September 8 Michael Lithgow | A national citizen's group has launched an online survey to ask people across Canada what they think about community media, the first of its kind in Canadian history. |
Blog - Media Watch blog August 20 Nick Fillmore | Last week Globe reporter Campbell Clark gave a textbook example of how the mainstream media ignores and marginalizes the public in key debates that are clearly in the public interest. |
Blog - Media Watch blog June 19 Mark Taliano | Why are the masses so quick to believe the lies and deception touted by governments? And then equally quick to take refuge in cynicism when the lies are exposed? |
Blog - Media Watch blog April 2 Laith Marouf | Citizens have a chance to make Independent Community Television a reality in Montreal because it is attempting to free public funds earmarked for Community Television production from Peladeau. |
Blog - Media Watch blog March 27 Mark Taliano | Corporate media's agenda for self-serving interests isn't just awful, it's dangerous because its selective coverage deliberately veils windows to the world that need to be exposed. |
Blog - Media Watch blog February 4 Stig Harvor | To succeed in affecting change, you need to influence the media. Canadian media is increasingly owned and concentrated in the hands of large corporations promoting their own interests. |
Blog - Media Watch blog December 4 Chuk Plante and Aaron Genest | The Facebook like is emerging as a new form of political in donation in Canada. But what does this action truly cost and mean? |
Blog - Media Watch blog October 28 rabble staff | Today the Broadbent Institute launches a new blog featuring daily political news and analysis: Press progress. |
Blog - Media Watch blog September 3 Andrea Germanos | Secretary of State John Kerry continued to push for military force against Syria on Sunday, appearing on a series of talk shows and saying he is sure Congress will support the use of air strikes. |
Blog - Media Watch blog August 27 Jon Queally | There's barely a whiff of the skepticism one would expect after the colossal -- and well-documented -- media failure that preceded the invasion of Iraq in 2003. |
Blog - Media Watch blog August 8 rabble staff | The CRTC has rejected the application from Sun News for mandatory carriage on cable television, a major blow to the struggling right-wing network. |
Blog - Media Watch blog July 19 various | The supposed “irony” of whistle-blower Edward Snowden seeking asylum in countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela has become a media meme. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 21 Nick Fillmore | The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement launched an organized campaign to expose these scientific community charlatans. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 21 rabble staff | The resignation of Stephen Harper's Chief-of-Staff Nigel Wright, and the growing Senate expense scandal, has made worldwide headlines this long weekend. |
Blog - Media Watch blog May 14 rabble staff | There's one big editorial endorsement missing. The Vancouver Sun editorial board has -- in an unusual move for them -- declined to issue an election editorial. |