Christie Blatchford made it very clear to me that she was interested in law and order, and only in law and order. That was both her strength and her limitation.
Journalism
More Thoughts on Unpaid Internships and Writing for Exposure
THE ONTARIO MINISTRY of Labour recently announced an enforcement “blitz” of provincial regulations governing unpaid internships, an action which led to the termination of internship programs at Toronto Life, Canadian Geographic, Rogers Publishing and The Walrus.
The Limits of Honesty in Writing
TRUTH, LIKE WEATHER, arrives in degrees. Just as the weather is all around, so too dishonesty in writing. Indeed, the taking of the media’s temperatures is a primary moral responsibility of the modern reader. The question which confronts us is… Read More ›
Making a living, dead languages, and why so many pros write so badly
RARE IS the day that I do not find a piece of bad writing in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Post, or Globe and Mail. This statement, I am confident, could be applied with justice to any newspaper… Read More ›
News of the World and the Ethics of Journalism
The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, though sensational, is of little significance either economically or journalistically. Now and again a journalist is found to be in breach of her profession’s code of ethics, or in more scandalous… Read More ›
Is Fox News Coming To Canada?
We all knew someone was going to say it, but how appropriate that it was Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and on April Fool’s day. News networks remain an integral part of the information and communication age, bringing audiences a fair… Read More ›
An Interview with Heather Menzies
[The following was first published in ASH Magazine Volume 4 Number 1, Winter 1996.] Your argument, in the book Whose Brave New World?, is that a corporate agenda is “colonizing” the institutions and services upon which we depend in this… Read More ›
Milton Rogovin
Rogovin once told Cheryl Brutvan in an interview, “I never could warm up to the middle class in photography.” Among the working classes, among the poor, among those who live on the street, he finds not only suffering but also dignity and beauty.
