Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, “Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics” in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, "Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics" in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, "Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics" in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
The New Colonialistsdon’t look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people,…
The New Colonialistsdon't look like the old onesThe last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people, which,…
The New Colonialistsdon't look like the old onesThe last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people, which,…
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 revenue drops due to COVID…
How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the success of those measures reduces the…
“Deep Dive” is the name that Saltwire gives to its new series that is supposed to give readers supposed to give readers more information on specific topics that are of…
If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation, is it spin, bias, or just a mistake?…
You know what “spin” is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin when someone uses an interpretation of an…
Now that Muskrat Falls is officially a boondoggle, all sorts of people are rushing forward to criticise it. Others are also rushing forward to ensure we all know that they…
The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There’s nothing surprising in that. Most conventional news organisations produce some amount of pure…
Last Saturday, this headline (left) in the Telegram prompted a storm of outrage from people who thought that it placed the blame for a sexual assault on the victim. The…
Last Saturday, this headline (left) in the Telegram prompted a storm of outrage from people who thought that it placed the blame for a sexual assault on the victim. The…
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 as divorced from reality as…
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 as divorced from reality as…
Truth and something else was clearly in the atmosphere this week as the Telegram’s Russell Wangersky offered a few thoughts on the subject in his Tuesday column. But if we…
Truth and something else was clearly in the atmosphere this week as the Telegram’s Russell Wangersky offered a few thoughts on the subject in his Tuesday column. But if we…
Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship. That’s why a great many journalists, troubled at the decline of their industry, emphasise the importance of trust in re-establishing a solid…
