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I am a staff writer with CTV.ca News. That operation is part of CTV News, which is of course nestled into CTV Inc. and CTVglobemedia.

I don't speak for my employer on this blog. I don't comment about the internal affairs of my employer.

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View Article  How Japan's media got to be so untrustworthy

According to this Alternet article about a new book (A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West), Japan's MSM is the most mistrusted in the world. The thing is, it doesn't sound that different in many ways from the U.S. MSM! :)

However, you'd expect a left-leaning U.S. website to say, that, wouldn't you?

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View Article  Buy weird

A campaign across some regions of the U.S. are trying to convince their residents to keep their towns weird by buying from individual retailers.

I also include a link to a Globe story from the weekend about Queen St. West's ongoing evolution.

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View Article  U.S. dailies considering the tabloid-size option

It's a trend that first took off in Britain, but now U.S. newspapers are considering a shift to tabloid size.

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View Article  Bush's re-election good for liberal mag business

While they might have preferred to see John Kerry win, liberal magazines in the U.S. say that Dubya's re-election has sent their circulations soaring skyward.

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View Article  Brooks rips the sleazo-cons

It is rare that people aligned with the two main American political tribes rips their own, but NYT columnist David Brooks (who some see as a faux conservative anyway, given who he writes for) lets some U.S. conservative activists have it.

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View Article  What about the SoCons?

The coverage I've seen of the Conservative Party policy convention focused on the new, moderate face the party was putting forward.

A question I haven't seen asked is what happened to all the social conservatives and hard-nosed Reformers from the last Alliance configuration that helped populate the Conservatives until, er, Sunday.

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