May 3, 2012
Tracking the financing of U.S. election ads
May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election? This year's election will be the most expensive in U.S. history.
Rupert Murdoch
Aug 1, 2011
There's no danger of Murdoch style press scandals in Canada! Really! Got that? Now go back to sleep
David J. Climenhaga
Stephen Harper, Rupert Murdoch and their various cronies are as thick as thieves, if you'll pardon the expression! Canadians would be well advised to pay attention.
Jul 29, 2011
Avoiding Murdoch's media minefield
Bill Wittur
For those interested in saying no to Murdoch, here's a list of just some of the assets that belong to Murdoch and the News Corp. media empire. (Bonus! Sun Media (QMI) publications added at bottom.)
Jul 26, 2011
Murdoch's ties to Big Tobacco
Donald Gutstein
Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in recent days, but it wasn't too long ago his media properties were providing a supportive environment for Big Tobacco.
Jul 23, 2011
Appreciating Stephen Harper, kind of
Gerry Caplan
Nothing makes me appreciate Stephen Harper more than the moral corruption that characterizes political life in the nations to which Canada is closest: the U.S., Britain and France.
Jul 22, 2011
Political action and real vs. virtual worlds
Discarnate is my fave among the many terms slung by Marshall McLuhan, who'd have turned 100 yesterday. It means, Philip Marchand wrote here, "almost literally bodiless."
Jul 20, 2011
The threat to democracy posed by Rupert Murdoch's media empire
On Tuesday, Murdoch claimed before the British House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport that it was his "most humble day." But what does it mean for a man with no humility?
Jul 15, 2011
Canadian journalism and the mote in our own eye
Can we declare a moratorium on Canadian Schadenfreude over Rupert Murdoch and his British tabs? They deserve what they're getting and more. But it tends to conceal the mote in our own eye.
Jul 12, 2011
The New York Times as the Terrible Swift Sword of the Establishment: Rupert Murdoch is done like dinner
David J. Climenhaga
Rupert Murdoch is done like dinner. When the truly powerful are finished with him -- if he survives, he is 80, after all -- he will envy the fate of Conrad Black!
Jul 12, 2011
The Wavelength: How the NewsCorps scandal impacts U.S. media
Eric Arnold
Welcome to the final edition of The Wavelength, a bi-weekly roundup of news and analysis focused on media policy.
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