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Showing posts with label media trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media trends. Show all posts
13 October 2020

The state of news media in Newfoundland and Labrador - 1988 #nlpoli

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Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale,  "Newfoundland:...
05 October 2020

The New Colonialists #nlpoli

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The New Colonialists don't look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day . It is a day to remember res...
29 June 2020

All the news the mob will let us print #nlpoli

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Saltwire laid off a hundred or so people last week, 25 of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. The most recent cuts are the result of revenu...
15 April 2020

Trends #nlpoli

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How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the succe...
04 March 2019

Unformation #nlpoli

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Changes in the news media,  changes in the audience, and changes in what information organizations provide to the pubic have created the U...
09 April 2018

Spin, bias, or just wrong? #nlpoli

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If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation,...
02 April 2018

Conventional media bias #nlpoli

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You know what "spin" is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin...
11 December 2017

Don't blame me (-dia) #nlpoli

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Now that Muskrat Falls is officially a boondoggle,  all sorts of people are rushing forward to criticise it. Others are also rushing forwa...
12 May 2017

Junk reporting of medical research

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The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There's nothing surprising in that...
25 February 2017

A week and a verdict later #nlpoli

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Last Saturday, this headline (left) in the Telegram prompted a storm of outrage from people who thought that it placed the blame for a ...
17 February 2017

The Mythical Golden Age of Newfoundland News #nlpoli

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Ray Guy, on the endless search for truth in local newsrooms (circa 1974): Sometimes you get the feeling that the newsrooms of the city are...
15 February 2017

S'truth and consequences #nlpoli

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Truth and something else was clearly in the atmosphere this week as the  Telegram's   Russell Wangersky  offered a few thoughts on the ...
14 February 2017

Trust, facts, and truth #nlpoli

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Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship.  That's why a great many journalists, troubled at the decline of their industry, emp...
13 February 2017

Captain Sweatpants and the future of news media #nlpoli

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The numbers are so large they take your breath away. In a poll conducted for The Public Policy Forum for its recent report on Canadian new...
08 February 2017

The Classroom Jungle #nlpoli

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CBC aired the first  of three half hour programs on Monday night featuring a bunch of teachers talking about problems in the Newfoundland ...
31 January 2017

What is it about Quebec and mass killings? #nlpoli

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Compared to the United States, there haven't been a lot of mass killings in Canada. Period.  Full stop. Canada is predominantly ...

Local news media in the post-factual world #nlpoli

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Chris O'Neill-Yates is a veteran CBC journalist.  Like most people in her line of work,  Chris is on Twitter plugging both her own work ...
24 January 2017

Ratings trump truth: Justified edition #nlpoli

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Updated (scroll to the -srbp-) Someone in Gander Bay has been catching and selling quantities of smelt. The Department of Fisheries and ...
20 January 2017

Ratings trump truth #nlpoli

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Sometimes the universe delivers you the magical set of circumstances you just can't ignore. Danny Williams turned up at the St. John&#...
09 November 2016

The real news in one sentence #nlpoli

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According to its supporters, we need to have a special office for search and rescue in St. John's because Newfoundlanders spoke English ...