Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, was in a snit last week over CBC's The Fifth Estate segment  Sticks and Stones that devoted about 10 minutes to ripping his employer.

In soccer terms, that's a free kick for a media columnist.

What I most like about watching State of the Union addresses is how well-choreographed the standing ovations are. Joe Stalin would have been envious!

I feel like Dubya should have a pail full of herring to toss into the crowd after they get up and slap their flippers together -- er, I mean clap.

CTV colleague David Akin has a blog posting (which I first saw through Blog on blog) talking about an interview he did with j-prof Jay Rosen of PressThink.

In it, Akin makes the ...   more »

Taxi Driver was one of the bleakest, best movies of the 1970s. Frankly, it still stands up today. But a sequel?

Here's an excerpt from the Guardian story:

This BBC story about an Italian government report doesn't make Italian males look like the spread-your-wings-and-fly types. But there's a reason.