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This page brings together all the stories on Canada that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

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Sports And Sex 2000
From the media obsession with "babes" like Anna Kournikova and Tiger Woods to gay issues, Jeff Merron recaps how sex played out in sports coverage last year.
From SportsJones, 9 January 2001.
> also about: Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Cultural Impacts Diversity

Global Arts Federation
National arts councils and arts-funding agencies from 50 countries have agreed to form an international federation to benefit artists, arts organizations and communities throughout the world. The decision to create the federation was made by delegates attending last month's World Summit on the Arts and Culture, hosted by the Canada Council for the Arts. Australia, Venezuela, Singapore, South Afric...
From Arts Wire Current, 9 January 2001.
> also about: Australia, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, United States Venezuela

Canadian Arts-Funding Bonanza
Censorship and arts funding became a hot topic in the recent Canadian election when the right-wing Alliance Party tried to make an issue of the Canada Council's funding of " Bubbles Galore " a film about a porn actress who takes control of the representation of her own images by making adult films. The centrist Liberal Party took the policy-oriented highroad and triumphed with a detailed platform ...
From Arts Wire Current, 5 December 2000.
> also about: Media Arts, Politics, Film Television

Public Broadcasting Worldwide
How can public broadcasters remain independent from government control but ensure adequate funding? A comprehensive new online book examining systems in six countries offers some answers. ALSO: See the MediaChannel Special Report: Global Public Broadcasting
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, 1 December 2000.
> also about: Australia, France, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, Business, Policy/Law, Public Broadcasting, Radio Television

Sex In The Sun
Bikinis and celebrities are all over British Columbia's main daily newspaper, the Vancouver Sun. Aiden S. Enns and Cheri Hanson wonder if a newspaper shouldn't provoke as well as be provocative.
From Thunderbird Journalism Review, 1 December 2000.
> also about: Business, Cultural Impacts Newspapers

Canada's Oligopoly
Attack the Blob and the bigger it grows. Under fire for union-bashing , global mogul Conrad Black is merging his vast Canadian media holdings with broadcasting giant ConWest — and critics warn he must be stopped.
From Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom -- Canada, 1 August 2000.
> also about: Business, Labor, Personalities Newspapers

CBC's Death Rattle
As it bleeds cash and alienates its audience, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation possessor of an unmotivated "civil servant" staff and timid, even faulty, news reporting _ may be the first major public broadcaster to succeed at suicide. So fears former CBC journalist Dan MacLeod, who investigated the state of the CBC for MediaChannel and found very few people willing to talk about it _ except ...
From The Media Channel, 18 July 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, News Coverage, Public Broadcasting Radio

The CBC's Death Rattle
As it bleeds cash and alienates its audience, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — possessor of an unmotivated "civil servant" staff and timid, even faulty, news reporting — may be the first major public broadcaster to succeed at suicide. So fears former CBC journalist Dan MacLeod, who investigated the state of the CBC for MediaChannel and found very few people willing to talk about i...
From The Media Channel, 12 July 2000.
> also about: Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Public Broadcasting, Radio Television

Public Relations Inside Out
Recovering PR agent Eric Sparling describes his former career this way: "trying to make you care about the things my clients cared about, even if they were inconsequential to your life."
From Center for Media & Democracy, 21 June 2000.
> also about: Business, Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage Newspapers

Paint It Black
Illegal spy cameras in the newsroom. Union busting and strikebreaking. Threats and firings. Conrad Black, Canada's Citizen Kane, owner of more than 250 newspapers from Canada to Israel, is notorious as a hardball owner who considers the press to be "swarming, grunting masses of jackals." Now a labor struggle fought on the picket lines and online is setting new standards for the fights of media wor...
From The Media Channel, 19 April 2000.
> also about: Labor Newspapers

The Economy Is Booming! A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts, Say Canadian Media
Uncritically parroting official statistics on joblessness, Canadian journalists are either "willfully obtuse" or afraid to sound a sour note in the government's happy-days-are-here-again refrain, argues Dan MacLeod. A former correspondent for Radio-Canada, MacLeod believes that Canadian reporters are turning a blind eye on the downside of a booming economy: They repeat "what is said officially, as...
From The Media Channel, 22 February 2000.
> also about: Business, Labor News Coverage

The News: Women Are Victims
Concerns with media and violence are not limited to the United States. When three scholars from Canada, Singapore, and Thailand got together to discuss media violence, they voiced similar concerns: that media images of violence against women tend to reinforce concepts of women as victims and sex objects, simplifying or ignoring the complicated social, economic, and cultural factors involved in the...
From World Assoc. for Christian Comm., 1 January 2000.

The Future Of Canadian Magazines
For decades, the Canadian government supported the relatively small domestic magazine industry by disallowing US publications from substituting ads in their original domestic market editions with ads targeted at Canadians. This spring, the US government finally succeeded in getting Canada to adopt a more open-door policy. What impact will it have?
From Media Awareness Network, 20 September 1999.
> also about: Magazines

First, We Chill All The Lawyers
When Canadian Council for Refugees staffer Francisco Rico-Martinez wrote the National Post to take the paper — specifically, columnist Diane Francis — to task for its bigoted, jingoistic portrayals of immigrants and refugees as "undesirables," "trash," and "scum," he expected a fleeting moment of fame in the letters column, at best. Imagine his surprise when he received a letter from t...
From Guerrilla Media, 8 September 1999.
> also about: Cultural Impacts Diversity

Canadian Writers Popular Abroad
Many foreigners, when they think of Canada, think first of Canadian writers and books. Yet this success is not supported by publishing structures at home and abroad, says John Ralston Saul. Only an adequate production-distribution system can adequately promote Canadian writing to an international audience, he explains.
From Media Awareness Network, 8 August 1999.
> also about: Business Books

This page brings together all the stories on Canada that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

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