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CanWest SLAPPs Free Speech

dave — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:32 +0000

Don’t Let Canwest SLAPP* Mordecai Briemberg and YOU !

By the Seriously Free Speech Committee Via the Canadian Dimension blog

Imagine you go to a public meeting on the Middle East; you see a humorous parody of the local daily, pick up a few copies and hand them out. Six months later you are served with a writ of summons that charges you with producing the parody, that threatens to cost you tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, that takes up hundreds of hours of your time and aims to prevent you from expressing your opinions in future. Impossible? A Kafkaesque fantasy? This is what is happening to Mordecai Briemberg in Vancouver today and we need your help to stop it.

CanWest newsrooms tense amid fears of layoffs, centralization fears

dave — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:52:44 +0000

Canadian Press November 11, 2007 TORONTO - Tensions are running high in CanWest newsrooms from Montreal to Vancouver in the wake of recent layoffs at the company's television stations and fears that more cuts are ahead amid an apparent push to centralize editorial operations.

Media Scout on the PMO vs. the media

dave — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:12:35 +0000

“There’s a time and a place for the media,” explained a plainclothes RCMP officer as he and his colleagues unceremoniously ushered journalists out of Charlottetown’s Delta Hotel. Evidently that time was not yesterday and that place was not the Conservatives’ annual summer caucus meeting. The officers, reportedly acting on the orders of the Prime Minister’s [...]

Media reform movement gaining steam

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:18:59 +0000

In the face of rampant media consolidation, Canadians are finally beginning to get organized and fight back under the banner of the recently formed Canadians for Democratic Media. This grassroots network recently organized a major initiative to lobby the CRTC against further media consolidation, and surely has more campaigns in the works to keep the [...]

The June B-List

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:00:44 +0000

Your monthly media supplement of seven recommended readings from beyond the Briarpatch. Get the B-List in your inbox. Subscribe/unsubscribe at http://www.briarpatchmagazine.com 1. Is CBC’s new populism perverted? Why youth fans like me are tuning out By Elaine Corden The Tyee June 21, 2007 Ideally, user participation makes an outlet like the CBC more democratic. But as we all know, the ideals of a [...]

Female War Reporters Hide Sexual Abuse To Continue Getting Assignments

admin — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:08:17 +0000

[In light of our latest issue's partial focus on media in war zones, this article serves as an important reminder of the many ways that reporters can be silenced. -D.O.M.] By Judith Matloff, Columbia Journalism Review June 7, 2007 The photographer was a seasoned operator in South Asia. So when she set forth on an assignment in India, [...]

Chavez vs. the private media

admin — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:48:00 +0000

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been getting a lot of flak in the North American press for refusing to renew the license of a major private broadcaster, but there’s much more to the story than meets the eye. For starters, check out Bart Jones’ excellent commentary in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. Jones argues that “the case of [...]