Entries Tagged 'Media' ↓

that the NYTimes Select business was ill-advised and short-sighted, the problems Laura Rozen notes in her War and Piece post would put things over the edge. Clue to the NYTimes: if you’re going to do something as business-changing as this, at least do it well.

at the CBC during the CMG lockout. The Canadian Press reports that the games being broadcast without announcers have attracted record audiences - and not just for the first game presented in this format, which was a novelty - the ratings are going up each time.

Note that I would love to point to the Globe and Mail article on the subject, but they’ve locked it up behind a pay wall. So yet again a major newspaper has given up the opportunity to be authoritative and to make a contribution to the public dialogue on issues of interest to Canadians. As they do hundreds of times a week, every time they block a story.

into the distinction in photo captions between “Looting” and “finding”. The differences were initially noted in many places, notably at Boing Boing on Tuesday.

several times already, but nevertheless Cintra Wilson’s story about the White House press corps is worth a read: I invaded the White House press corps.

at the CBC outside of Quebec (and Moncton, NB) at the moment, but some CBC producers have put together www.cbcunplugged.com, a site where you can go to listen to podcasts of your favourite radio personalities. It seems that Tod Maffin got the ball rolling but a wider group of producers is now behind the effort.

I hope this gets resolved quickly, because the radio landscape in Ottawa is pretty barren. A couple of years ago there was a similar problem in Quebec and at that time I switched to a local sports radio station, The Team 990 (CKGM). Trouble is, sports radio in Ottawa is not nearly of the same caliber that we had in Montreal. Too much macho jock-talk.

Rollback in PressThink. A brilliant description and analysis of the Bush administration’s stance towards the press building on Ken Auletta’s and Dana Milbank’s earlier work and incorporating the context provided by the Rove/Plame affair.