Politics and its Discontents

Those of you who may regularly read this blog likely know that I have always been a big supporter of mainstream media. Despite their limitat...

Given that it is World News Day, a few reflections from the Star's former public editor, Kathy English, seem appropriate: Trustworthy j...

Happy New Year, everyone. And now, a return to regular programming. As 2017 dawns and the Trump presidency draws near, I have been won...

The other day, I wrote a post about how NBC Nightly News was attacked by Donald Trump via his weapon of choice, Twitter, a perhaps apt me...

With conventional media fighting an ever-growing juggernaut of fake news, news that is either outright lie or gross distortion, two natio...

I just finished reading Rather Outspoken , a memoir by Dan Rather, former anchor of CBC News who was essentially fired for reporting the tru...

The implications of this are truly and deeply frightening.

I had an experience yesterday that served only to deepen my cynicism about the mainstream press (The Toronto Star being the sole exce...

After reading Rick Salutin's column yesterday about the very real limitations of Canadian journalism even when juxtaposed against the s...