Friday Funny: CBC ombudsman answers the question we’ve all been waiting for
CBC ombudsman, Esther Enkin, posted the results of her investigation into a complaint against a column in which Neil Macdonald likened Republicans unto Miley Cyrus. The 1,300-word (!) review is worth a read, but for those of you who need to know in a rush, here’s the important part: “It is true the word describes […]
Star exclusive!
The front page of today’s Toronto Star is a fairly typical one: the Star leads with a major municipal story and surrounds it with smaller stories from provincial and federal politics. One of these stories is labeled “Star Investigation”; another, “Star Gets Action”; and, of course, “Star Exclusive.” As the RRJ wrote in 2010, these […]
It’s Conrad Black’s world—we’re all just living in it
In 2010, while the subject was still in prison, a friend of mine emailed me the above photo and wrote: “I love how the Post puts this in every weekend. I’m never sure if they mean he’s writing something, or that, like Arthur, Lord Black will return to us in our hour of great […]
The fashion week coverage we deserve
It’s fashion week in Toronto again! This means that David Pecaut Square will be a reliable chaos of bustle and colour any given night this week; you won’t have to turn too far to find a camera looking for a good photo. Outsiders to Canada’s—or, for that matter, any—sartorial scene have a predictable reliance on […]
Friday Funny: ”We regret the hilarious error”
We know we should feel bad for the USA Today copy editor responsible for this headline, but the schadenfreude is too strong. (via Reddit) A typo with the word “typo” in it is right up there with that time the Toronto Sun misspelled “correction”…in a correction. The New York Times takes its corrections seriously: earlier […]
Wikileaks: sound and fury, signifying nothing
The Wikileaks Twitter feed is one of the saddest corners of the internet. In the past week, the person behind the tweets has pulled out all the stops trying to discredit The Fifth Estate, a new movie about the whistleblowing website. These steps have included posting a pointless, amateurish graph; tweeting an email in which […]
Anonymous sources overused, say senior government officials
Every time Statistics Canada reports a dip in the unemployment rate, it’s tempting to think that the recently unemployed have been hired on as senior government officials. Senior government officials are the chatty Cathys of journalism: they always talk. In the past week, they have told The Canadian Press that today’s throne speech “will reference […]
Ontario Press Council scorecard
As you’ve no doubt seen by now, the Ontario Press Council (OPC) has ruled that the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail did not violate journalistic standards in reporting on the recent drug scandals involving the Ford brothers (though the council did say the Globe’s investigation into Doug Ford’s past came close to crossing […]
He said, she said: this week in journalism
The Los Angeles Times says it no longer prints letters to the editor that say global warming isn’t real; Ezra Levant says that’s cowardly. Khurrum Awan says Ezra Levant should pay for implying that Awan is an anti-Semite; Ezra says he needs your help / money to defend freedom. The Toronto Star thinks it’s okay […]
Testing Embeds
What? Happening now: @RU_FEAS‘s Graduate Open House, 8 AM to NOON today at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centrehttp://t.co/eVxZPfFvY0 — Ryerson University (@RyersonU) November 15, 2013
