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Thursday, June 30
Time to hand over documents in Plame case
by
billdoskoch
on Thu 30 Jun 2005 09:40 AM EDT
According to a Reuters story carried by the NYT, Time magazine will hand over some subpoenaed records in the Plame case. more »
War of the Worlds gets thumbs-neutral (at best) from Doskoch
by
billdoskoch
on Thu 30 Jun 2005 01:49 AM EDT
It dazzled me but didn't affect me. That would be my seven-word review for War of the Worlds. more »Wednesday, June 29
Thumbs up from Globe's Lacey for War of the Worlds
by
billdoskoch
on Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:54 AM EDT
Globe and Mail reviewer Liam Lacey gives War of the Worlds three stars. more »
Venezuela's CNN rival
by
billdoskoch
on Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:36 AM EDT
While not on the air yet, Telesur has already been dubbed by some as Al-Bolivar -- a combination of Al-Jazeera and Simon Bolivar, the 19th century South American revolutionary leader. more »
The Plame case: Protecting whistleblowers or shielding gov't wrongdoing?
by
billdoskoch
on Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:25 AM EDT
Democracy Now! interviewed John R. (Rick) McArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine and Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!, a bimonthly publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Naureckas thinks that by protecting their sources, the NYT's Judith Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper are protecting government wrongdoers. more »Tuesday, June 28
George, George, George (sigh)
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 09:29 PM EDT
I had a few problems with tonight's speech by our great neighbor's commander-in-chief. more »
The Straw memo
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 06:36 PM EDT
As U.S. President George W. Bush takes to the airwaves tonight to give an Iraq war pep talk to his increasingly dubious nation, another British memo comes out. more »
Homolka seeks court ban on reporting about her
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 05:11 PM EDT
Karla Homolka is reportedly seeking an extremely broad court in order to stop the news media from reporting about her. more »
Thoughts on the Miller-Cooper-Plame affair
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 11:38 AM EDT
Media writer Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post offers these thoughts on the prospect of the NYT's Judith Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper going to jail. I also link to some other stuff. more »
German politician says he accepted bribes from Schreiber
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 11:06 AM EDT
Corruption junkies might remember Karlheinz Schreiber, the backslapping little middleman at the centre of the Airbus affair, and who is currently fighting extradition to Germany. Well, a German politician has just claimed in court that Schreiber gave him a one-million-euro bribe to help ease the sale of some German armoured vehicles to the United States. more »
Acquittals suspended in Pakistan gang rape case
by
billdoskoch
on Tue 28 Jun 2005 10:55 AM EDT
Five men acquitted in a globally notorious gang rape case in Pakistan have seen those acquittals reversed by Pakistan's Supreme Court. more »Monday, June 27
China's great energy game
by
billdoskoch
on Mon 27 Jun 2005 08:54 PM EDT
An NYT news article and a Paul Krugman column on China's quest for energy resources and how it's competing with the U.S. more »
Two reporters in Plame case lose at U.S. Supreme Court
by
billdoskoch
on Mon 27 Jun 2005 07:34 PM EDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the cases of Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, two reporters facing jail for refusing to reveal their sources. more »
'Media vs. evangelicals'
by
billdoskoch
on Mon 27 Jun 2005 07:27 PM EDT
J-prof David Haskell argues in this Toronto Star commentary that when the Canadian MSM fear-mongers against evangelicals getting involved in politics, it is fear-mongering against a group that is much more mainstream than the media realizes. more »
New Pew poll shows an increasingly polarized America
by
billdoskoch
on Mon 27 Jun 2005 02:05 AM EDT
The Democrats think the U.S. MSM is too easy on Dubya, while Republicans think the MSM is too hard on the (God Bless the) U.S.A., says a new Pew poll. more »Sunday, June 26
The newspaper of the future
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 10:34 AM EDT
This NYT article points to the newspaper of a college city in Kansas as being an incubator for some very interesting experiments in moving journalism online. more »
Frank Rich on the U.S. right's efforts to subvert PBS
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 03:00 AM EDT
The NYT's Frank Rich argues the Bush administration wants to make PBS and NPR state propaganda agents, not kill them off. But he also talks about how the Republicans may have been too clever. more »
Hanging with obit writers
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 02:49 AM EDT
The Globe and Mail's Elizabeth Renzetti at an obituary writers' convention in Bath, England. more »
Why a missing teen is America's biggest news story
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 02:35 AM EDT
The BBC examines why the U.S. media is so ga-ga about one missing teen who went to the Caribbean island of Aruba on a holiday. more »
Truscott report kept under wraps
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 02:15 AM EDT
Ontario's court of appeal has declined to order that a 700-page report on the case of Stephen Truscott be made public. more »
Playing it big at the Star
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 01:54 AM EDT
Toronto Star public editor Sharon Burnside talks about the paper's time-honoured full-court press strategy on the big story of the day. more »
Deepa Mehta film to open TIFF this year -- to which I say, why?
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 01:41 AM EDT
Deepa Mehta's new film Water will get the opening-night gala slot at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The Toronto Star story says Mehta is "best known for her 2002 satiric romp Bollywood, Hollywood ...". What a mediocre piece of crap to be best known for. If you haven't seen it, don't. If you want to watch a great Indian wedding film, rent Monsoon Wedding.
The GTA's growing ethnic enclaves
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 01:33 AM EDT
In 1981, Toronto had six census tracts where one ethnic group made up 30 per cent of the population or more. In 2001, that number jumped to 254. more »
A fake American in Toronto
by
billdoskoch
on Sun 26 Jun 2005 01:16 AM EDT
Toronto Star reporter David Bruser tried to imitate a red-state American in Taranna and, oddly enough, didn't find a totally warm reception in Kensington Market! more »Saturday, June 25
'One murderer, one journalist, two liars'
by
billdoskoch
on Sat 25 Jun 2005 01:36 PM EDT
David Hayes reviews the book Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa in today's Globe and Mail. more »Friday, June 24
Blogs as media courts of appeal
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 11:53 PM EDT
The Downing Street Memo controversy has provoked an essay earlier this week by Jay Rosen of PressThink. It in turn led to a Salon column by Ariana Huffington. more »
But if he hadn't, wouldn't he be 'Really Filthy Al'?
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 11:18 PM EDT
A young woman, about 21, is filling in two friends on the nickname of a mutual acquaintance: Dirty Al. "I was going to my first kegger, and Al's roommate told me: 'Watch out for yourself. Al is looking to score tonight. He washed his sheets.' "So me and a friend nicknamed him 'Dirty Al'!" I was left to wonder about what Al's nickname might have been had he left the sheets as is.
As heard on Queen St. West
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 11:12 PM EDT
A young street guy, approximately 22 years of age, cuts across Queen W. on his very shabby chic Mustang bike and screeches to a halt beside another guy. "Hey buddy: Where the fuck were you when I was fuckin' scrappin' those two fuckin' guys on fuckin' Front Street?!?!" he asked -- in a tone that could not be described as even and neutral. The reply was mumbled and inaudible, but I suspect it might have been along the lines of: "Uh, I didn't wanna get my ass kicked?" :)
BBC Online editor on the wikitorial experiment
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 09:06 PM EDT
The Beeb's Pete Clifton on the Los Angele's Times' great wikitorial experiment. more »
Teaching Germans comedy
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 08:58 PM EDT
The land that gave us the concept of schadenfreude is seeing its stand-up comedy business slowly take wing -- with the help of some training. For some reason, I can image Mike Myer's "Dieter" character from his SNL days barking: "Your one-liners have become tiresome!" :) more »
Breaking wind and news
by
billdoskoch
on Fri 24 Jun 2005 08:41 AM EDT
On last night's Daily Show, Stephen Colbert was interviewing two people from the pornography industry who had joined the Republican Party.
"What was that?" asked Colbert, his nostrils twitching after a certain telltale sound. "I farted," said the woman, whose name was Mary Carey. "I've never farted in an interview before. You're my first." "Well, that's what we in the news business call 'an exclusive,'" said Colbert. |
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