From the Torontoist:

Earlier this week the Toronto Star announced, among other changes, that it was planning to outsource some one hundred in-house, union editing jobs. In the press release issued by the union in the wake of the announcement, union chief Maureen Dawson explained that "Journalism is a collaborative effort, the product of a team of reporters, photographers and editors working in concert to produce the kind of activist agenda that has served Star readers and our community so well for so long...To remove a critical element of that work is to shortchange everyone who depends on it."

Now, one (apparent) editor at the Star has decided to show us all the benefits of collaboration. An extensively marked-up copy of Publisher John Cruickshank's internal memo announcing the changes was sent to Torontoist by a self-described "intermediary who was asked to send this for a friend who works at the Star" this morning; it's, allegedly, "the work of a Star editor."

Here's the whole thing:

Jayson Blair, whose fabrications triggered the worst ethics crisis in the history of the New York Times and cost two very senior editors their jobs, will be speaking later today at a journalism ethics conference.

James Poniewozik makes an argument out of a point that I've long believed; centrism can be a form of bias. It's about coverage of American politics, but ask yourself whether the same effect plays out in this country.

... Reads Lady Gaga's Poker Face out loud:

And if that's not enough, here's a dose of the real thing: the Lady herself performing Love Game, which includes the following unforgettable verse:

Lets have some fun
this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride
On your disco stick

Globe and Mail corro Doug Saunders, travelling through Romania, found that cab drivers loved that tune (Saunders is doing 20th-anniversary coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall).

When I said in a tweet I could only take 10 seconds of that song, he replied: "10 seconds is all it takes."