Newspapers and Zombies

Brent Hamilton has a good point in his most recent rant on the differences between East and West, and to an extent between daily and weekly newspapers and even the internet.  I present to you his argument.  Now, just watch out for Zombies.  Brent Hamilton, by the way, is a Saskatchewan based columnist and baseball [...]

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The Way I See It: Take the real out of reality

This morning I watched a reality show.  It involved a man who had some trouble starting his car.  He was on the verge of flooding it.  What made this interesting is I could be a participant, like many reality shows.  But instead of merely voting, I could actually offer suggests.  Kind of like on Who [...]

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The Way I See It: Ravenous Media

Lately, I’ve seen and heard a lot about political sides pointing a finger at the media and blaming them for being to conservative or too liberal (or in some cases, a left wing organization bent on destroying democracy). It’s rather embarrassing, to say the least. I worked in the media industry over ten [...]

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The Way I See It: Privacy is meaningless

Thai Rath publishes disturbing photographs of David Carradine.
In my early morning news reading hours, I come across interesting things that are thought provoking, and very interesting.  From time to time, I come across something that just pisses me off.
I used to work in the media industry, more so in the past than now.  Now, I [...]

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What. The hell?

I honestly could say that was the only thing that came to mind when I saw this monstrosity parked in front of my apartment block.  What the hell is that? I think the more appropriate term would be what the f*ck? Upon first inspection, based on body type and the obligatory labeling, it was a [...]

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The Way I See It: More book burning

Last week I discovered the CPSIA and the implementation of a law that has a lot of people up in arms. Rightly so. Even misinterpreted, the law reads as though books published before 1985 need to be destroyed due to high lead contents in pigmentation used in the ink process for images within [...]

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The Way I See It: Don’t Cry Wolf

I hear about the death knell of the newspaper industry yet again.  And I think to myself, why is it that some people are pushing for this?  Are they missing out on two very important factors if newspaper publications disappear?  They probably are.  Let’s take a look at those factors.
The first is probably the most [...]

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The Way I See It: History on pages

I sit this morning with my cup of coffee, headphones on as Gordon Doweny of the Tragically Hip sings the lyrics of Nautical Disaster in my headphones. Eating my morning cereal, I read the news sites, catch up on last night’s NHL scores (ya know, ’cause I’m Canadian and it’s like a need I [...]

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The way I see it: Textual Feelin’s

Okay.  This is something I’ve had a problem with for a long, long time.  Communication is a key ingredient to what I do, and as far back as when I worked in broadcasting, I was a communicator.  When I would present a news story, I would use certain key vocal elements to convey some sort [...]

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The way I see it: Tweetin’ on Twitter

It’s 2:35 in the morning, I can’t sleep.  I went to bed at 11:30, I think I slept, and woke up at around 1:15.  I had a glass of milk and began to cruise a couple of sites and check out some videos just so I could maybe, maybe get back to sleep.
All I can [...]

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