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June 2008: The Press Vs. The People
Media ownership in Canada one of world’s most concentrated Lawrence Martin of the Globe and Mail, writing in 2005, noted that the media in Canada…
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June 2008: Perception Management
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the lies As someone who worked as a journalist for many years, and later as a communicator…
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April 2008: Lies the Media Tell us
So-called “studies” by right-wing think-tanks have long provided “evidence” for the corporate media to bash “big government” and extol the virtues of the private corporations…
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Strange Bedfellows at BCE
Ontario Teachers and U.S. Private Equity Funds Download 123.37 KB5 pages
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For Sale to the Highest Bidder
Telecom Policy in Canada Download 123.37 KB144 pages More than ever before, we depend on telecommunications services to conduct our economic, cultural and social lives.…
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December 2007: The Rise of Media Literacy
Creating an un-brainwashed generation is a noble calling During the B.C. teachers’ strike a few years ago—a strike over violations of their bargaining rights that…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2007
Media Education and Educating the Media Attachments Our Schools/Our Selves: Media Education and Educating the Media – Contents and Introduction Re-imagining media education
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An open letter to the CBC in response to “Medicare Schmedicare”
Dear Sirs and Madams: Last week John Doyle of the Globe and Mail told us that the CBC had decided not to air a documentary…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2005, Volume 8, Number 3 Download 703.22 KB8 pages Inside this issue: After the Referendum: What Next for Electoral Reform? Maximizing Benefits from the…
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April 2005: No News is Bad News
Does it do any good to complain about mass media failings? Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to…
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November 2004: How to Brainwash a Population
Democracy can’t work if system is subverted by propaganda Winston Churchill once described democracy as “the worst form of government except all those other forms…
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