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TV Struggles To Cover Wildfires

Posted by Christine on 24 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, CA, Environment, Journalism, Television, Newspapers

By David Kronke, The Gazette
As wildfires continued to roar throughout Southern California, local television news divisions, like the firefighters, found themselves stretched thin while devoting huge swaths of airtime to covering the tragic story.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Canadians Want Media Choice

Posted by The Tyee on 17 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, CA, Action, Media Freedom, Activism, Business, Alternative Press

By Steve Anderson, the Tyee
Several major media mergers are threatening to make the Canadian media scene an even more concentrated affair.

Popularity: 1% [?]

‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored

Posted by MTV on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Europe, US, CA, FR, UK, Politics, Ethics, Hillary, Journalism, Policy, Activism, France, Health Care

By Kurt Loder, MTV
Is Michael Moore’s prescription worse than the disease?

Popularity: 2% [?]

Thomson Evolution Takes Next Step

Posted by Wall Street Journal on 12 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, US, CA, Economics, Technology, Journalism, New Media, Reuters

By Cassell Bryan-Low, Wall Street Journal
The Reuters deal and the emphasis on data services mark the latest efforts to adapt.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Let’s not put up with this any longer

Posted by The Star - Canada on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, CA, Television

By Antonia Zerbisias, The Star (Canada)
Coming to a TV near you! More commercials! More simulcasts of U.S. shows! Higher cable fees! Less Canadian drama and local news! Actually, they’ve already arrived, and so slowly that citizens didn’t notice how badly they were being burned.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Is Torture Becoming All-American?

Posted by MediaChannel on 20 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, US, CA, IQ, Politics

Whether psychological or physical, torture is becoming part of the mainstream of American media and increasingly acceptable to the public. Do we crave depictions of it more than we accept the reality of torture’s use in the War on Terror?

Popularity: 2% [?]

Sir Conrad Black’s Noble Embezzlement Case

Posted by MediaChannel on 13 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, US, CA, UK, IL

The disgraced press baron sits in court, accused of embezzlement most egregious. Court documents show he saw himself as a modern-day French aristocrat, instead of a humble Life Peer.

Popularity: 1% [?]

 
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