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The Wikileaks Twitter feed is one of the saddest corners of the internet. In the past week, the person behind the tweets has pulled out all the stops trying to discredit The Fifth Estate, a new movie about the whistleblowing website. These steps have included posting a pointless, amateurish graph; tweeting an email in which… Continue reading Wikileaks: sound and fury, signifying nothing

Every time Statistics Canada reports a dip in the unemployment rate, it’s tempting to think that the recently unemployed have been hired on as senior government officials. Senior government officials are the chatty Cathys of journalism: they always talk. In the past week, they have told The Canadian Press that today’s throne speech “will reference… Continue reading Anonymous sources overused, say senior government officials

As you’ve no doubt seen by now, the Ontario Press Council (OPC) has ruled that the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail did not violate journalistic standards in reporting on the recent drug scandals involving the Ford brothers (though the council did say the Globe’s investigation into Doug Ford’s past came close to crossing… Continue reading Ontario Press Council scorecard

The Los Angeles Times says it no longer prints letters to the editor that say global warming isn’t real; Ezra Levant says that’s cowardly. Khurrum Awan says Ezra Levant should pay for implying that Awan is an anti-Semite; Ezra says he needs your help / money to defend freedom. The Toronto Star thinks it’s okay… Continue reading He said, she said: this week in journalism