Lyndsay Carter was the Director of Circulation for the Spring 2004 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Newsworld vs. Newsnet
The good, the bad and a few ugly truths about 24/7 TV news networks
A strong jolt of caffeine does little to prepare me for the shock of seeing a dishevelled Saddam Hussein in the custody of the United States Army – especially on a Sunday morning. I sit on the couch with a notebook and instinctively click to CNN for the latest update. The endless loop of the […]
The Great Canadian Conan Craze
O'Brien gets far more attention north of the border
This is the first thing I see when I open up my email one Wednesday morning in January: “Hey, you might want to write in and double our chances!” My boyfriend has caught Conan O’Brien fever, a highly contagious affliction that has swept across the GTA. Symptoms include compulsive email checking, fingers permanently crossed for […]
All About the Bling Bling!
How the hip-hop vocabulary is working its way into everyday use
Bling is everywhere. Its omnipresent fabulousness has consumed me. I work with bling. I wear bling. I’ve visited Swarovski Kristallweltn Gallery in Austria, the place where bling could have been born. I have a fish named Bling. I have already used bling far too many times in this paragraph. I thought Journalism would be a […]
