Bloggers, post at your peril

Write a letter to the editor, and it’s forgotten in a day. Call a phone-in show, and you’re history in a minute and a half. But post to a blog, and – unless you delete them yourself – your words live on as long as your blog does. They can be...

Darn good question.

Pete Shinbach over at The Bach Door asks an awfully good question in relation to this excerpt from a news story: “An aide to [someone the reporter was trying to contact] said the developer was traveling out of state Thursday and could not be reached for...

Waaaay off-message

The big issue right now in U.S. federal politics is the future of social security. (Everything you want to know about how this is shaking down is covered diligently at Talking Points Memo.) The Republican mantra as they plan to privatize large swaths of the program...

Damage control: how to do it

Not 24 hours after a media spitstorm, Her Excellency comes out smelling like a rose… and shows the rest of us how to handle a bad-news day. Here’s how: She responded immediately, and made herself available: “Hearing the story on CBC Radio Thursday...
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