About two years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining why we cancelled our subscription to The Globe and Mail. At the same time, I sent an email with a link to the post to Globe editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, suggesting that if he wanted to know why he had lost a long-term subscriber, he should read my post.
Later that evening, I received a response from Stackhouse which I have never discussed in this blog, simply because I regarded it as private communication. While I am not prepared to reveal the content of the letter, I will tell you his closing observation, which was something along the lines of, "You seem to prefer the smaller world of the blogosphere. Sad."
Well, it would seem that the world of bloggers is not so small after all, given it was Medi Culpa's analysis of Margaret Wente's plagiarism that has created something of a firestorm within the world of journalism, shaking to its foundations the once proud Globe. In his column today, The Star's Tim Harper addresses the role it plays in journalists' lives, and how it forces everyone to be very careful in how they write.
Of additional interest is a brief profile of Professor Carol Wainio, the blogger behind Media Culpa.
Oh, and Torontoist has some thoughts worth perusal as well.
Hi Lorne:
ReplyDeleteFWIW, I wonder whether they're not cutting Wente extra slack out of some misguided conviction that she's the key to the boomer readership?
Just speculating.
OB
That's an interesting thought, Orwell. I have long wondered what purpose her column serves, other than to provoke a spirited response from readers owing to her consistently contrarian viewpoint. Some boomers, no doubt, find her her right-wing sentiments appealing, but others, such as me, definitely do not.
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