Recent Posts Tagged With media analysis

• Lawrence Martin’s Fortunes

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 10:58 am in education media analysis federal politics leadership & leaders ethics & virtue

  The Oracle at Delphi didn’t always get it right. It understood that some of man’s fate is in his own hands, as Machiavelli acknowledged in Chapter 25 of The Prince two millennia later.  Fortune only governs half our actions when we exerc...

• An English-Speaking Stephane Dion?

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 11:13 pm in media analysis elections federal politics political parties humour & curiosa

  Chantale Hebert has seized on what’s going on chez Iggy In what increasingly looks like a case of Dion redux, Michael Ignatieff was poised to head down the same slippery election slope as his predecessor had the 40th Parliament died a swift dea...

• Jeffrey Simpson Un-Bloc-ked

  Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 09:20 am in media analysis elections democracy qu�bec federal politics

  What’s next? Will Jeffrey Simpson now join Stockwell Day’s Church, whose beliefs he so vehemently smeared with the same petulant conviction that he once smeared Preston Manning?...

• Paul Martin to the Rescue III

  Posted on Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 01:56 pm in media analysis elections federal politics political parties leadership & leaders

  The economic troubles in the US and economic worries about a similar meltdown hapenning in Canada is highlighting Stephen Harper’s record on the economy and in Economics. In plain English, as economic issues become prominent, the prime minister...

• Mallick on Palin

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 06:09 pm in media analysis elections leadership & leaders US Politics

  Heather Mallick is far too quick with the gratuitous insult. Those who find Palin appealing are white trash, and those who do not are nice Dems or enlightened Canadians. Supposedly, Mallick has received tons of hate mail for the column. I bit self-im...

• Dippers Have All the Fun

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 05:39 pm in media analysis elections federal politics political parties leadership & leaders

  What an interesting election campaign we’ve had so far. A leader in an opposition party is imploding, but the bulk of the press is dancing around it largely pretending that it is not happening. This is a story that mixes mice running, a cat hid...

• Jack Nader

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm in media analysis elections qu�bec federal politics political parties

  For years Quebeckers have so ignored Jack Layton that he now looks new and fresh to them. That’s just a little bit funny. Good for them, I guess. Jack’s fortunes seem to be on the rise in the province the more they see of him. Stephane Di...

• Planet in Peril

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm in media analysis nature & environment

  I just finished watching a short report with Anderson Cooper on CNN (Certainly Not News) about the shrinking northern polar ice cap. They are sounding the bell about the end of the ice cap as we know it, and predicted that the northern ice cap will b...

• The Politics of Gaffes

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 08:59 pm in media analysis elections federal politics political parties leadership & leaders

  As we head into week three of this federal election campaign, the media are convinced that goofy gaffes disguised as scandals are what the voters want to hear most about. If this election turns out to be as boring as the media are claiming, it will b...

• ‘Enlightened’ Scoundrels

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 05:44 pm in Culture media analysis elections qu�bec federal politics

  Michael Coren has chosen to be charitable in his interpretation of how Quebec journalists, politicians and members of the intelligentsia in general are reacting to the news that some of the candidates in the present election campaign have Christian b...

• Elizabeth May Should Have Been Kept Out

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am in media analysis elections federal politics nature & environment political parties

  Lysiane Gagnon’s commentary on the inclusion of Green Party’s Elizabeth May to the televised leaders’ debate is well worth reading. Participation in a leaders debate should not be decided by emotions. It should rest on objective f...

• Green Muzzle?

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 06:01 pm in Middle East media analysis elections federal politics nature & environment

  The story began as to whether Elizabeth May, the Green Party leader, called Canadians “stupid” during an interview. It has now migrated to Green political muzzling. Kevin Libin has the story here. SDA also has the scoop here....

• Evidence and more Evidence

  Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 04:47 pm in media analysis corruption elections federal politics nature & environment

  Ed Stelmach and Rona Ambrose address the Alberta bashing coming from central Canadian politicians like Taliban Jack and Citoyen Dion. Stephen Harper’s lady in northern Alberta, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Rona Ambrose, picked up where S...

• Let us rejoice and be (half) glad

  Posted on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 03:20 pm in media analysis elections ethics & virtue

  Anyone who watched MSNBC’s coverage of the Republican Convention last week knows that Keith Olberman appointed himself the counter spinner of whatever he decided needed to be counter spinned. Any appearance of balance went out the window. While...

• Le Centre de l’Univers

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 05:37 pm in media analysis

  When I got a new computer a while back, I messed up my iTunes and lost some of the settings for podcasts that I would usually load on my Ipod. Today is the day to clean that mess up. I went to the CBC podcast site to restore my podcasts by region. I ...

• Tunnel Vision

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 09:18 am in media analysis human rights Public Policy qu�bec provincial politics

  Writing for the Glob, Lysianne Gagnon makes several arguments pointing to the sham of the official Canadian multicultural policy. Her arguments are incidental to her point against the Bloc’s phony desire to see Quebec exempted from the official...

• Fluff and Ignorance, National Post Style

  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 07:15 pm in media analysis religion & spirituality leadership & leaders

  That there are really dumb things in newspapers everyday should not be a surprise. We all know that papers are out to entertain –and to cater to their readers tastes. So when I see a piece about the Pope in the fashion file, I laugh right away....

• Hubroggery?

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 09:40 am in media analysis provincial politics alberta sci-tech humour & curiosa

  I am wondering about something of a trend. Surfing around blogs yesterday, I found a few “live blogging” entries for the Alberta leaders debate the night before. Joel Krom, Daveberta (the intrepid young cybersquatter who took on the prem...

• Lake-Polluting Ontario: Envious, Reductive, Short-sighted

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 05:41 pm in media analysis nature & environment provincial politics alberta

  The Globe and Mail’s envy of Alberta’s wealth on behalf of (Lake-polluting) Ontario does not seem to stop.  For all the great things that Alberta has, they are unable to stop themselves from  referring to us as “oil-rich.” ...

• He Haunts Us Still?

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 01:10 pm in media analysis provincial politics alberta political parties leadership & leaders

  Clear memory may well seem like obsession to our historically amnesiac friends at Canadian Press....

• Is that what they mean by “insider”?

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 am in arts media analysis provincial politics alberta political parties

  Rod Love offers his commentary after the Alberta Leaders Debate last night. It was posted more than two hours after the debate ended. After reading the entry I am hoping that there is no huge sums of money changing hands between Rod and the Herald. B...

• On est là, niaiseux!

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 04:48 pm in media analysis nature & environment alberta leadership & leaders energy & resources

  Premier Ed Stelmach represents Alberta and Albertans at the “Council of the Federation,” but he is not Alberta. While Stelmach will not be at the discussions held today in Vancouver, Alberta’s Environment Minister will be. Alberta i...

• Speech and Rights II

  Posted on Thursday January 10th, 2008 at 09:11 pm in Middle East media analysis religion & spirituality tyranny judicial politics

  Much of Canada's press and many broadcasters are already noted for politically correct blandness....

• Of political mosquitoes and hammers

  Posted on Thursday January 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm in media analysis provincial politics alberta political parties leadership & leaders

  In a world where snooty youngsters in cyber space try daily to gain notoriety by nipping at the ankles of the powerful, Alberta premier Ed Stelmach has just painted a sign on his forehead. It reads: "pick on me!"...

• Speech and Rights

  Posted on Thursday January 10th, 2008 at 11:08 am in Middle East media analysis Public Policy corruption federal politics

  Mark Steyn comments on the silliness of Human Rights complaint against him. That there are people offended by some of what he writes should not be a surprise, but Steyn is livid about the Human Rights Commission accepting and thereby legitimising pol...

• Canuck Navel Gazing

  Posted on Monday January 7th, 2008 at 06:15 pm in media analysis US Politics humour & curiosa

  Are there no bounds to the ways in which Canadian media feed this country's self importance?...

• Valpy: Which end is Up?!

  Posted on Saturday December 22nd, 2007 at 10:55 am in media analysis religion & spirituality

  The Bolsheviks are on their way out of Christian churches; they voluntarily wrote themselves out of the gene pool....

• More thinking, More money: Klein

  Posted on Saturday December 1st, 2007 at 02:22 pm in media analysis Public Policy provincial politics alberta leadership & leaders

  An Edmonton Journal report by Jason Fekete makes Ralph Klein, the former premier of Alberta, sound as though he did no thinking while he ruled the province for 14 years. Another assignment has him [Klein] in Washington, D.C. until mid-December as a p...

• Lord Durham Gets the Shaft

  Posted on Thursday November 22nd, 2007 at 03:03 pm in media analysis leadership & leaders local government

  The National Capital Commission has substituted an early image of Ottawa for the portrait of Lord Durham on a Sparks Street Mall interpretive panel about the 150th anniversary of the selection of Ottawa as Canada’s capital. ...

• King Juan Carlos’ Mistake in Santiago

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 07:59 am in media analysis latin america foreign policy & diplomacy leadership & leaders

  Quite a big deal is being made of a single phrase expressed by His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain to President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela at the Iberoamerican Summit in Santiago, Chile, this weekend. The media are quoting the King as saying “...