Category: The Magazine

For forty days last summer, Canada’s newspapers, radio stations and television networks were flooded with details of the sex lives of two women: Barbara Dodd, 22, of North York, Ontario, and Chantale Daigle, 21, of Chibougamau, Quebec. Unlike other recipients of unwanted publicity in recent years-Susan Nelles, the Reichmanns, or Ben Johnson-neither Dodd nor Daigle… Continue reading EXPOSED!

Toronto lawyer Harry Kopyto offers his media storehouse like a host ushering a guest to the buffet table. “What do you need?” he asks. “Print? Video? Radio?” The chubby 42-year-old proudly claims that more than 1,000 articles about him have appeared in local papers during his 15 years as a lawyer. In Kopyto’s study, where… Continue reading The Importance of Being Harry

The only thing I can say with certainty about the New Journalism is that it changed my life. I was introduced to it in the late sixties, mostly through the works of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer. They had very different-in some respects, totally opposed-approaches to the writing of journalism, but they made an equivalent… Continue reading Tom, Joan, Norman & I

I am not aware of the students at any time having been blamed, although they have been punished, for what culminated in the slaughter on June 4, which you out there call the Tiananmen massacre. But you’re wrong, you see. Nobody was killed on Tiananmen Square If you think you saw people being killed on… Continue reading It Never Happened

Patrick Watson faces the public through the microphones of CBC’s “Radio Noon.” It is October 12, 1989, and he has just been appointed chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The station is inundated with callers who want to know how $140 million in government cuts to the network will be administered. Watson answers-quoting policy to… Continue reading The Watson Report