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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.

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View Article  A famous, 61-year-old writer defends newspapers

Stuart McLean of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Cafe  (b. April 19, 1948, according to Wikipedia) proclaims his love for newspapers and says his 92-year-old dad loves them too.

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View Article  Hard times doesn't lessen the need for journalistic ethics

Stephen Ward, director of the centre for journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's school of journalism and mass communications, argues that ethics is the only thing that defines a journalist.

The craft must not sacrifice ethics on the alters of changing business models and emerging technologies, he argues.

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View Article  My favourite Godfather quote
The most famous one from that seminal 1972 film is "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

But I like this one from Michael Corleone to his brother-in-law Carlo when trying to elicit a confession that Carlo set up Sonny Corleone (Michael's older brother) to be killed:

"... Don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very angry."

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