Paul Wells talks shop with Jesse Brown about Maclean's "resistance" cover.
I like Maclean’s about as much as I like the National Post. They’re rightwing, partisan, and legacy. On my view they have courted hate and burned trust, undermining journalism along […]
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services global assessment gives us a window into Canadian journalism.
If news orgs are serious about being good partners in mitigating misinformation, they need to link meaningfully to relevant references and especially science-based organizations…
Let's regulate videos like we regulate food.
Deep fakes, or the ability to manipulate people’s actions in videos, were in the news recently. Macleans wrote a very concerned article December of 2018. This will be the year […]
A critical analysis of The Globe and Mail and the National Post and the perpetuation of Islamophobia.
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…
By area, there are more ads than reports and opinion pieces in this A section of the BC Edition of the Globe and Mail.
Here’s the A Section of the Globe and Mail. It’s the BC edition for June 2nd, 2018. There are 19 reports and 5 opinion pieces. I counted the weather section […]
Ten Meter Tower short film documents humans being humans.
The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump. The film documents a surprising and poignant range of human emotions…
You can't just issue a correction for deep wrongs.
News orgs make a big deal about fixing typos and issuing corrections. But what if there’s a much deeper trust problem…
Canadaland joins legacy media in positioning Islam as religion of bullies.
I’ve become numb to racism in legacy media in Canada. But to see Canadaland unthinkingly repeat a racist trope angers …
Media is powerful.
So much media that passes as journalism isn’t, and this election has demonstrated the power of television and “news” in a remarkable and nauseating way…
I see dudes everywhere.
In which Colby Cosh calls Stephen Marche a cunt, and then Jonathan Kay and Stephen Marche and Andrew Coyne totally miss the point …
Bad art history is bad history.
Stories of history, and art history, are too important to be left to the colonial, white, patriarchal views of of a few…
