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Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category

March 5th, 2008

CBC.ca Moves from Closed Discussion to Open Commenting

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been encouraging debate about its online content for some time. In a new move, the public broadcaster is removing some of the controls placed on those discussions.
On the CBC News Editors’ Blog, Jonathan Dube announced that stories on the CBC.ca site are now open for public comments. They are […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments

March 3rd, 2008

Media Was Right not to Reveal Prince Harry’s Mini-Tour in Afghanistan

Okay, so a member of the British royal family went into a battle zone and the media didn’t spill the beans.
Sherylynne Starkie of Strive Public Relations isn’t impressed: “It makes you wonder what else they’re not telling us,” she says, and quotes John Snow of the UK’s Channel 4: “One wonders whether viewers, readers and […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 4 comments

February 25th, 2008

The Media’s ‘Bad News’ Bias

The media is obsessed with bad news. Given the chance, they will take the worst possible angle on a story and play it up.
Just ignore the average sports story, the average business story, the average lifestyles story and the average local story.
And don’t pay attention to the coverage of official events, announcements, and anniversaries. […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 4 comments