The Washington Post, the paper which brought us Watergate 30 years ago, is now the latest to put forward a self-examination of how softly it covered the critical weapons of mass destruction issue in the lead-up to the Gulf War:

This is an update, published on Aug. 11, of a backgrounder I first did for CTV News Online back in early April, ...   more »

Man, I was surfing through the NYT site this evening and came across a bit of sad TV news, although I can't say it's a shocker: West Wing may soon feel the cold steel of the Ratings Reaper's scythe.

In the blog world, I mean? I'm a web-based journalist for CTV News Online -- I spend more than enough time online already.

One reason I already post a ton of stuff to CAJ-L, an e-mail list for journalists. By creating a blog, I thought I could archive it.

Since I'm already an inveterate forwarder of stuff I think my friends will find interesting/amusing/enlightening/enraging, I envision this becoming my virtual doctor's office magazine stack -- albiet one that's a lot more au courant -- to share with those who share my interests in media, politics, technology, film, music and the amusing minutiae of life.

Look for an occasional series called Urban Hell. I live in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and there's just some weird, funny -- occasionally appalling and heartbreaking -- stuff you figuratively trip over in the course of everyday life (I didn't mean literally trip over, as in those poor homeless souls sprawled on heating grates). I like to tell stories and Urban Hell somes like a good theme for some of them.

Finally, I read a lot of what can only be described as crazy shit by some politically right-wing bloggers. All it takes for crazy shit to triumph is for good men to not blog -- or something like that.

So here I am.