Category: Letters

May 24, 2010 Re: Low Fidelity In her piece about the supposed decline of Canadian music criticism, Jessica Lewis writes that my Globe and Mail review of a concert by the Handsome Furs “politely skirts the issue of whether the group’s music is, well, any good… [Everett-Green] is one of many skilled music journalists who rarely… Continue reading Spring & Summer 2010

June 2, 2008 Re: the Spring 2008 issue Greetings from a Ryerson magazine journalism graduate, class of 1996. I’m a former Ryerson Review scribbler myself—I wrote the John Haslett Cuff cover story, “Sympathy for the Devil,” that year. I just want to pass on my congratulations to this year’s Spring 2008 team. I’ve been living… Continue reading Spring & Summer 2008

December 26, 2007 Re: John Mather’s “Hot Prospects,” Summer 2007 My attention was recently drawn to John Mather’s article regarding the Calgary Herald and its circulation recovery under my watch as editor in chief (1999-2003) and publisher (2003-2006). I cannot speak to the Herald’s circulation and readership trends since then, but its recovery between 2002… Continue reading Spring & Summer 2007

Aug. 10, 2006 Re: Barry Hertz’s “Being John Ibbitson,” Summer 2006 Barry Hertz’s “Being John Ibbitson” is one of the more execrable lumps of prose I’ve read in the past decade. After leaving journalism in 1996 I forgot how easy it is to stitch a series of half-truths, unsubstantiated claims and trivial factoids into a… Continue reading Spring & Summer 2006

April 13, 2005 Re: Samantha Israel’s “Blogging the Spotlight: The Rise of Online Journalism” (Spring 2005) In another story about the no-holds-barred cage match between journalists and bloggers, Samantha Israel writes that she has been corrected only once by a reader. Let’s go for two. Ms. Israel writes: “More than arrogant, some old-time reporters think… Continue reading Spring & Summer 2005