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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  A belated happy second birthday to this blog

My blog turned two on Saturday. And, with more than 3,150 posts, is still going strong.

Do with this information what you will.

View Article  Reporting about blogging in the belly of the beast

The Globe and Mail's Guy Dixon had a story published Tuesday about InsidetheCBC.com, a blog about the Corpse by Corpse staff.

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View Article  A near-perfect critique of "citizen journalism"

I'd been carrying around the Aug. 7-14 issue of the New Yorker for days and days, but on Tuesday night on the subway, I finally read Nicholas Lemann's critique of citizen journalism.

You can too by clicking here. Personally, I think every journalist interested in the topic should read it too.

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View Article  Speaking of citizen journalism ...

Here is the raw version of a commentary I wrote for Digital Journal magazine way back in June 2005:

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View Article  How the misguided application of democracy is emboldening al Qaeda


Lamont and his supporters
U.S. Veep Dick Cheney laid it out for CNN last week after Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman, a fellow traveller on Iraq, lost in the Connecticut primary to war opponent Ned Lamont.

He saideth: "Our adversaries in this conflict, the al Qaeda types, clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people."

The Daily Show's senior terror analyst John Oliver explains how right Dick is.

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