The untouchables
“Sometimes, watching him, it’s like looking at the moon: You see the face of the man in the moon, but you know there’s actually no man there,” Ian Brown writes about his son, Walker, in his 2009 memoir, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son. Walker, who was born with […]
A must-have app for your iPod
According to Advertising Age, Maxim is joining GQ and Esquire by making its issues available as an app for your iPod Touch or iPhone. The GQ and Esquire app each cost $2.99 per copy. With that price, and the convenience of not having to stuff one more item in my bag, I’m definitely interested. Imagine […]
F is for Friday
And some other choice phrases that might describe the snafu the Review team noticed in The Globe and Mail yesterday. The first line of a Report on Business story by Susan Krashinsky reads: “Vancouver’s radio dial is about to get a bit more bolshoy.” The story is about a Russian media group taking over Vancouver […]
Journalism: SAVED!
Writing for this blog is no fun. It’s true. As I searched for something to write about journalism or media that wasn’t bleak or depressing, I found my options were slim. Do I opine on the ease of which Reuters’ kills their own stories whenever Obama calls? Or maybe I ought to discuss Prism Magazine, the […]
Farm publications rock
Much has been made of the new Canada Periodical Fund, which Masthead calls the “biggest shake-up” to hit mag-funding in a long, long time. We all had a fun time parsing the politics behind the changes the feds were making to magazine funding: Artsy, small circulation mags were upset to learn that they may get […]
This blog will soon be sued under copyright laws
Rupert Murdoch’s success as one of the first newspaper publishers to put material online has now backfired. He is calling search engines such as Google News and Digg thieves for using their copyrighted content to fatten their own pockets. “They are feeding off the hard-earned efforts and investments of others. And their almost wholesale misappropriation […]
Human after all?
This week, the American Society for Professional Journalists issued a press release urging journalists in Haiti to respect their role as reporters of the news. The SPJ claims that some journalists have been blurring ethical lines, immersing themselves into their stories opposed to simply reporting the carnage. Some journalists have gone so far as to […]
In Fox we trust?
According to a new little poll[pdf] that’s getting a whole lot of attention, Fox News is the most trusted news network in the United States. Almost half of the 1,151 American registered voters who were surveyed by Public Policy Polling said they trusted the network. Results were less positive for CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC. […]
CNN’s Vice
A magazine known for its urban coolness and lewd imagery has partnered up with CNN. Vice Magazine, a former zine hailing from Montreal, has started featuring a series of short documentaries on CNN.com (the first went viral last Wednesday). It’s an unlikely pairing, but Vice founder Shane Smith says there’s logic behind the madness. “If […]
And the Pulitzer goes to
No serious discussion would contain National Enquirer and Pulitzer Prize in the same sentence, until now. On Thursday afternoon, Washington Post staff writer, Howard Kurtz broke news of Enquirer executive editor Barry Levine’s intention to submit his paper’s writings on the discreditable behaviour of John Edwards for one of the prestigious prizes. “It’s clear we should […]
