by Rob Cottingham | Feb 24, 2004 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
It’s a hard time to be a taxpayer-funded broadcaster in Canada. You’re either losing funding or being put on the auction block, and you just don’t seem to have many friends in government.Well, buck up. For the past year, a group called Our Public... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 23, 2004 | Everything Else
From the standpoint of a spectator enjoying the disarray of the Canadian right, it isn’t easy to outstrip a week where Conrad Black sues his fellow directors for attempting (sic) to turn him into a “loathsome laughing stock.” In fact, I figured that... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 17, 2004 | Everything Else
The last two weeks have seen Canadians in a hair-pulling frenzy over the antics of hockey commentator Don Cherry and the obnoxious remarks of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. (Remember this the next time you’re tempted to tweak an American friend about how Janet... by Rob Cottingham | Feb 12, 2004 | Everything Else
Came across this fascinating bit of wisdom today:In order to run an Internet campaign that doesn’t simply use the Internet as the new form of mass mailing, to use it as a form of broadcasting, which is the very old traditional sort of campaigning style, you have...