Wayne Riley was relieved when the Ontario Provincial Police held a press conference last fall to answer questions about its investigation into a string of murders in the Ottawa Valley. In the previous four years, six middle-aged and elderly recluses had been gunned down in their homes, some shot through a window. Try as he… Continue reading Front Page Justice
Toryvision
Spring, 1988 | Comments (0) – Report an Error Share on facebook Share on email Share on twitter Share on favorites More Sharing Services As news director of MTN, a small, private TV station in Portage la Prairie, Al Thorgeirson hasn’t the resources to rent satellite time whenever he wants to quiz Manitoba MPs on… Continue reading Toryvision
Way Out of Bounds
In 1985, Toronto Star sportswriter Mary Ormsby became one of the first women in the history of the Canadian Football League to report from players’ locker rooms. By then, Ormsby had been in dozens of male athletes’ locker rooms. In her four years on the job, Ormsby, then 25, had learned to accept the reality… Continue reading Way Out of Bounds
The Incredible Shrinking Newscast
In 1981, the Federal Communications Commission deregulated radio in the U.S. and changed the character of American stations. Among the regulations relaxed were those governing news content-a station is no longer required to broadcast any news whatsoever-and the result has been that too many stations have become little more than free jukeboxes. The reason is… Continue reading The Incredible Shrinking Newscast
Raw Footage
A three-second aerial shot shows the tops of shacks in a rural slum. The as yet unseen narrator tells you it is Soweto, a black township in South Africa, “the scene of so many necklacings and violence.” Violins pitch and drone eerily behind his commentary. Now you’re on the ground, about 10 metres from a… Continue reading Raw Footage
