Archive for June, 2011
Enough…Please!
Most of the free world watched the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate, true.
Read More..>>A Bad News Day
When the third wave of alerts about a York Region police officer came to my iPhone, before I opened them I looked at my phone and said out loud, “not dead, not dead, not dead.”
Read More..>>Curried Canadian
A few weeks ago my former colleague at Corus Radio, Blair Henatyzen, moved to Bangalore, India.
Read More..>>Really Big Scoop…of Me.
A Toronto Sun columnist made some comments on the weekend about the use of the word “exclusive” by media and the 24-hour-news channels’ purported penchant for claiming they’ve broken stories that were already cracked by someone else.
Read More..>>Sharonstock
We are just back from Sharon, Ontario, for what started out as a small family get-together but grew into The Rolling Stones playing for the entire town.
Read More..>>Media Musings
I’m no genius. I’ve made mistakes and will likely make a few more. But there are a few fundamentals about the news business that too often get forgotten in this era of budget restraint and I find it deeply disappointing.
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