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World Press Freedom Day 2023
May. 3rd, 2023 08:47 amNoting that today matters, and this is one more of the reasons why:
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
Apparently, this is the 30th anniversary of the start of this practice.
https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry?data_type=general&year=2023
https://j-source.ca/introducing-staying-alive-preserving-local-news-in-canada/
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
Apparently, this is the 30th anniversary of the start of this practice.
https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry?data_type=general&year=2023
https://j-source.ca/introducing-staying-alive-preserving-local-news-in-canada/
New Cleverphone
Mar. 1st, 2023 09:39 pmThis will be cleverphone # 4 of my life thus far.
Still getting used to it. Ditched the Netflix and Amazon apps ASAP, and added CBC News, the Guardian and AP, flawed as those organizations all are.
Still getting used to it. Ditched the Netflix and Amazon apps ASAP, and added CBC News, the Guardian and AP, flawed as those organizations all are.
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Dec. 21st, 2022 09:00 am1. Someone sees the work of the Guardian as a threat.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/guardian-hit-by-serious-it-incident-believed-to-be-ransomware-attack
2. If you're trying to get in or out of metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, you'll need more patience than usual:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/winter-weather-flight-cancellations-1.6693294
3. Same for Ottawa-Gatineau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/don-t-travel-this-weekend-if-you-don-t-need-to-opp-says-1.6692802
4. Mon-Fri 9-5 may be over for many, but what's taking its place in the federal civil service may be problematic in other ways for the staff as much as for the public. Especially in Ottawa-Gatineau where we don't have mask rules back in place yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-departments-hybrid-directive-responses-1.6692401
5. The Convoy Siege of Ottawa continues to have consequences for a lot of people living here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zexi-li-freedom-convoy-year-in-review-1.6205324
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/guardian-hit-by-serious-it-incident-believed-to-be-ransomware-attack
2. If you're trying to get in or out of metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, you'll need more patience than usual:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/winter-weather-flight-cancellations-1.6693294
3. Same for Ottawa-Gatineau.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/don-t-travel-this-weekend-if-you-don-t-need-to-opp-says-1.6692802
4. Mon-Fri 9-5 may be over for many, but what's taking its place in the federal civil service may be problematic in other ways for the staff as much as for the public. Especially in Ottawa-Gatineau where we don't have mask rules back in place yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-departments-hybrid-directive-responses-1.6692401
5. The Convoy Siege of Ottawa continues to have consequences for a lot of people living here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zexi-li-freedom-convoy-year-in-review-1.6205324
Currying the Soul in a Bytown-ish Way
May. 19th, 2022 06:31 pmNoting that As It Happens has taken on Ottawa Morning's long-time host Robyn Bresnahan as one of its current co-hosts.
Now, here's a thing that I think might actually be a Problem for us here.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/just-how-extreme-is-bill-c-18-it-mandates-payments-merely-for-facilitating-access-to-news/
Is Prof. Geist wrong about this? If so, how? If not, how do we get this stopped? If News Media Canada and/or Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for it, why, and how do we overcome such objections if this does in fact interfere with our interests as internet users in Canada?
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/just-how-extreme-is-bill-c-18-it-mandates-payments-merely-for-facilitating-access-to-news/
Is Prof. Geist wrong about this? If so, how? If not, how do we get this stopped? If News Media Canada and/or Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for it, why, and how do we overcome such objections if this does in fact interfere with our interests as internet users in Canada?
https://readpassage.com/canadian-media-is-erasing-essential-workers/
Insert needed Noam Chomsky/Marshall McLuhan reference here, right?
Insert needed Noam Chomsky/Marshall McLuhan reference here, right?
Canadian Media: A Departure and a Revival
Jan. 19th, 2022 07:01 amCanada got a bit of a shock last night: Carol Off is ending 16 years as co-host of As It Happens on CBC Radio at the end of next month. Hers is a voice I've gotten used to hearing on the radio, of course, being a longtime CBC listener. The series will continue, of course, well into what we hope is its next full half-century.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
Pandemic: "Industrial Censorship"
Nov. 13th, 2021 02:49 pmAs opposed to the governmental variety, which most of us here know to be wary of.
This report from The Intercept about the choices made by hospitals - and other organizations - in response to news services' needs for information reminds us that "industrial censorship" is not an oxymoronic concept. It's real and it has consequences that may not have been expected either.
This report from The Intercept about the choices made by hospitals - and other organizations - in response to news services' needs for information reminds us that "industrial censorship" is not an oxymoronic concept. It's real and it has consequences that may not have been expected either.
Speaking of Feeds
Oct. 14th, 2021 03:55 pmSeems wise to add ![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
theintercept_feed to my reading list, at least for the next few months.
theintercept_feed to my reading list, at least for the next few months.Stephen Maher on Canada Election 44
Sep. 22nd, 2021 10:48 amThe title and summary of his opinion is in the URL. I'm not convinced that Mr. Maher is correct, and unsure of how much progress we're making towards building a more just society, but he has a case to make here.
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canada-has-shifted-to-the-left/
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canada-has-shifted-to-the-left/
To those of you reading other Canadian newspapers: I see Conservatives rented the front two pages of the Citizen this morning. Did they do the same with any of the other Postmedia-owned newspapers across the country again?
The last time I remember this happening was in 2015.
The last time I remember this happening was in 2015.
1. Ottawa's largest school board votes to end police presence in schools - Recent report highlights concerns about discrimination, wellness checks from community - CBC News
2. Hungary passes law banning LGBT content in schools or kids’ TV - New legislation outlaws sharing information seen as promoting homosexuality with under-18s - The Guardian
3. Outcry as Saudi Arabia executes young Shia man for ‘rebellion’ - Rights groups say Mustafa bin Hashim bin Isa al-Darwish was a minor when alleged offences committed - The Guardian
4. Why CBC is turning off Facebook comments on news posts for a month - Social media attacks on our journalists and the subjects of our stories is something we take seriously - CBC News
2. Hungary passes law banning LGBT content in schools or kids’ TV - New legislation outlaws sharing information seen as promoting homosexuality with under-18s - The Guardian
3. Outcry as Saudi Arabia executes young Shia man for ‘rebellion’ - Rights groups say Mustafa bin Hashim bin Isa al-Darwish was a minor when alleged offences committed - The Guardian
4. Why CBC is turning off Facebook comments on news posts for a month - Social media attacks on our journalists and the subjects of our stories is something we take seriously - CBC News
Radio/Internet: Link Rot
Jun. 13th, 2021 01:14 pmSpark is discussing the problem of "link rot" this week. It's an ongoing issue for all of us, I suspect, depending on how old our respective weblogs are. I'm guilty of aggravating the problem by way of not correcting links between blog entries here since moving the whole blog over from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth back in 2017, for example.
Also, I think that paywalls aggravate the "link rot" problem. But what to do to keep those old news services' archives preserved and available without undermining peoples' efforts to keep earning whatever living they can?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/something-s-rotten-in-the-state-of-the-internet-and-archivists-are-worried-1.6047113
Also, I think that paywalls aggravate the "link rot" problem. But what to do to keep those old news services' archives preserved and available without undermining peoples' efforts to keep earning whatever living they can?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/something-s-rotten-in-the-state-of-the-internet-and-archivists-are-worried-1.6047113
Apparently, there's a bit of a kerfuffle: no award given for the Op-Ed cartooning category at the Pulitzers this year. And not for lack of award-worthy talent either.
https://twitter.com/JenSorensen/status/1403490514142334977
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1403417033329500162
https://twitter.com/JenSorensen/status/1403490514142334977
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1403417033329500162
Assorted Notes - 26 May 2021
May. 26th, 2021 10:15 amI'm watching Ottawa City Council on YouTube as I start this entry. Here's the expected agenda.
Among other things going on...
Grand theft sea cucumber in Sri Lanka. This goes to the topics of organized crime and food security.
We have one particular anti-mask/anti-vaccine troublemaker getting more infamous by the hour. You'll forgive my not naming either of his names, I trust.
Wayne Gretzky is leaving the front office of the Edmonton Oilers for Turner Sports.
Media ownership concentration continues to worsen because Amazon buying MGM, Alden Capital Group acquiring Tribune Publishing, and other instances.
An item from the University of Waterloo on paid sick leave. Noting multiple private-sector employers and provincial and state governments now worried that workers will use such sick leave in a proper and responsible manner if they get it...including the Ford regime.
More stuff of interest later today...
Among other things going on...
Grand theft sea cucumber in Sri Lanka. This goes to the topics of organized crime and food security.
We have one particular anti-mask/anti-vaccine troublemaker getting more infamous by the hour. You'll forgive my not naming either of his names, I trust.
Wayne Gretzky is leaving the front office of the Edmonton Oilers for Turner Sports.
Media ownership concentration continues to worsen because Amazon buying MGM, Alden Capital Group acquiring Tribune Publishing, and other instances.
An item from the University of Waterloo on paid sick leave. Noting multiple private-sector employers and provincial and state governments now worried that workers will use such sick leave in a proper and responsible manner if they get it...including the Ford regime.
More stuff of interest later today...
Quoting from this link...
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/greening-news/2021/05/postmedias-cozy-relationship-fossil-fuel-industry
"Postmedia emerged from previous owner Canwest's ill-fated gamble on multimedia "convergence" between broadcast, print and digital media. The papers were bought at bargain prices by its creditors with U.S. hedge-fund backing. Since 2016, Chatham Asset Management has held about 66 per cent ownership, a company with an 80 per cent stake in American Media Inc., controversial for its ties to former U.S. president Donald Trump."
American Media Inc. was, until April 2019, the parent company of The National Enquirer and Globe.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A360media
Now, I'm wondering what Hudson Group's interest in buying those tabloids was. And does Dufry AG's leadership understand what their Hudson Group subsidiary has taken on? If so, why? If not, why not?
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/greening-news/2021/05/postmedias-cozy-relationship-fossil-fuel-industry
"Postmedia emerged from previous owner Canwest's ill-fated gamble on multimedia "convergence" between broadcast, print and digital media. The papers were bought at bargain prices by its creditors with U.S. hedge-fund backing. Since 2016, Chatham Asset Management has held about 66 per cent ownership, a company with an 80 per cent stake in American Media Inc., controversial for its ties to former U.S. president Donald Trump."
American Media Inc. was, until April 2019, the parent company of The National Enquirer and Globe.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A360media
Now, I'm wondering what Hudson Group's interest in buying those tabloids was. And does Dufry AG's leadership understand what their Hudson Group subsidiary has taken on? If so, why? If not, why not?
From Moskva to Toronto?
Apr. 15th, 2021 08:32 pmVladimir Putin > TASS > Reuters Connect > Thomson Reuters > Woodbridge Company > The Globe and Mail
Please don't tell me the connections aren't real.
Please don't tell me the connections aren't real.
