On my view the news media in Canada have, by and large and in the long run, misrepresented the concept of jihad. They have positioned jihad as a form of villainy. In so doing they have portrayed Islam as a peril…
If you read Canadian journalists on the topic, you might not understand that jihad has some very nice meanings. Most Canadian journalists seem to commonly misrepresent the concept. It’s not just them, mind you. There’s lots of misrepresentation of jihad to go around…
Here’s the A Section of the Globe and Mail. It’s the BC edition for June 2nd, 2018. There are 19 …
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How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…
What does an Auto Trader, a phone book, a card catalog, a post office, a mall map, Google and a newspaper all have in common…
News orgs make a big deal about fixing typos and issuing corrections. But what if there’s a much deeper trust problem…
I’ve become numb to racism in legacy media in Canada. But to see Canadaland unthinkingly repeat a racist trope angers …
There is a kind of journalist that pretends their work is beyond criticism. It’s an art form. Here’s a rough taxonomy of techniques..
Canadian journalists and other forms of media types rely on press releases written by public relations pros and the problem can be easily fixed by…
In which Colby Cosh calls Stephen Marche a cunt, and then Jonathan Kay and Stephen Marche and Andrew Coyne totally miss the point …
Some thoughts regarding what counts as journalism particularly as it relates to Queen’s Park Today, and subscription news that arrives by email…
The Toronto Star continues to be wrong about “Canada’s only Pulitzer-prize winning journalist”. Yes, Paul Watson won a Pulitzer. But Barbara Davidson has two…
Unfortunately, headlines are, often enough, hyperbolic, clickbaity, misleading, having secondary content, racist, priming, inappropriate or ill-judged. Engaged readers will complain to the author. The author, enraged with righteous indignation, will bark, “I didn’t write the headline…
“Fucking ‘humans’ with their fucking ‘newspapers
In which I expound on reasons why I ache for the central, most important, news publisher in the Canadian media landscape…
Wow. Favourable headline for Rogers
Sometimes, public relations is more journalistic than “journalism
“Journalism is the business of influence
“There are too many privileged white dudes who defend the status quo in ‘journalism
Journalism is a species of public relations
I like this handbook on ethics by NPR. I like the way it looks and the way it functions. I like the spirit of integrity that it…
