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 […]
Regulating fake video
Let's regulate videos like we regulate food.
Tag: critical media
Canadian journalism fails at nuance when it comes to jihad
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…
Ads versus articles in the Saturday BC Edition of the Globe and Mail, A Section
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 […]
Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump
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…
Salvaging trust: confronting journalism’s deep wrongs
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…
Racist trope: fatwa as act of villainy
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 …
My friend is voting for Donald Trump, because reasons
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…
That time Colby Cosh called Stephen Marche a cunt: casual misogyny among Canadian journalists
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 …
The failure of “Movements in Art Since 1945”
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…
