Friday Funny: Sesame Street slams Fox—er, Pox News
Children have been used in war before. But last week Sesame Street took the fight to Fox to a new level, though the episode has aired a few times in the past two years. First the White House, and now a venerable kids show? Fox just can’t get any slack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-1j9T90-8
Washington Post loves Bill Kristol, can go either way on actual
Good news, everyone! The Washington Post, home of arguably the worst opinion section in America, has taken to heart the criticisms levelled against it and addressed these inadequacies byclosing its remaining United States bureaus. Finally! The decision was nothing if not pragmatic. As executive editor and mental gymnast Marcus Brauchli explains, “We are not a national news […]
The oxymoronic Star
Leave now or be fired later—this is the decision facing Toronto Star employees. The Star is gearing up for what publisher John Cruickshank says will be “the biggest restructuring of the Star‘s workforce in history.” Employees of the paper can take voluntary severance packages or risk being laid off later. The voluntary separation package comes […]
Writers’ coalition launches new website
In September, a coalition of writers’ groups started a boycott of Transcontinental Media in response to Transcon’s release of a new “Author Master Agreement,” a lifetime contract that strips writers of almost all conceivable rights with little or no increase in pay. The coalition’s been pretty quiet since then, but now they’ve launched a website, […]
Look elsewhere
What are you doing when you graduate? Taking some time to see the world? Perhaps a few months teaching English in China or Guatemala? NGO work? Communications? How many of you will be hitting the pavement, dropping off CVs and practicing your interview skills? Or at least calling the guys you interned for last summer? […]
Post-traumatic stress
The National Post printed a virile editorial this weekend, addressing the various media outlets and news reports speculating its death last week. Characterizing the reports as a collective “barrage,” “firestorm,” and “frenzy” of celebrations on their supposed death, the editorial attempts to set the record straight, or at least provide the necessary contexts to the […]
