Freelance victory

Here’s a nice (and rare) victory for folks who make their living stringing words together.The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of freelancer Heather Robertson, whose Globe and Mail pieces wound up in the paper’s online database.The case echoes a...

A toolkit for media skeptics

If you’re the kind of person who’d like to maintain a healthy skepticism about the news media without crossing the border into they’re-taking-their-orders- directly-from-a-cabal- of-alien-overlords territory, good news.The New York Times has come out...

When bad pundits go good

David Brock, the one-time character assassin for the U.S. far right (and that’s a generous way of putting it compared to his own self-assessment), has resurfaced.In his book Blinded by the RightBrock came clean a few years ago about his role in tarring Anita...

Pinch me

For Canadian lefties, this has to count as one of the all-time greatest schadenfreude-y highs.Far-right newspaper baron Conrad Black has been dumped— sorry, has resigned — as Hollinger International’s CEO.It doesn’t end there. David Radler...
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