The front page of today’s Toronto Star is a fairly typical one: the Star leads with a major municipal story and surrounds it with smaller stories from provincial and federal politics. One of these stories is labeled “Star Investigation”; another, “Star Gets Action”; and, of course, “Star Exclusive.” As the RRJ wrote in 2010, these… Continue reading Star exclusive!

  In 2010, while the subject was still in prison, a friend of mine emailed me the above photo and wrote: “I love how the Post puts this in every weekend. I’m never sure if they mean he’s writing something, or that, like Arthur, Lord Black will return to us in our hour of great… Continue reading It’s Conrad Black’s world—we’re all just living in it

It’s fashion week in Toronto again! This means that David Pecaut Square will be a reliable chaos of bustle and colour any given night this week; you won’t have to turn too far to find a camera looking for a good photo. Outsiders to Canada’s—or, for that matter, any—sartorial scene have a predictable reliance on… Continue reading The fashion week coverage we deserve

We know we should feel bad for the USA Today copy editor responsible for this headline, but the schadenfreude is too strong. (via Reddit) A typo with the word “typo” in it is right up there with that time the Toronto Sun misspelled “correction”…in a correction. The New York Times takes its corrections seriously: earlier… Continue reading Friday Funny: ”We regret the hilarious error”

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