Seems fair – j-school grads have been damaging journalism’s reputation for years;

Admission to the University of Ottawa’s journalism program has been suspended for the coming academic year after a damning report found the program to be “profoundly troubled” and even damaging to the university’s reputation.

From the comments: “This article gives no sense of what the core problems are with the journalism program. Why was a review commissioned and why are the findings scathing?”
QED
h/t Jim

Transcript here.

But “is considering a form of mandatory carriage applicable to all Canadian All- News Services, that would include Sun.”
More detail;

The decision also lays out a proposal for a new category of licences for Canadian all-news channels. It’s asking for public comment now on a proposed framework that includes forcing distributors to offer all Canadian national news services, Canadian news services in close proximity in their channel lineup, as well as offering national news services in a package and on a standalone basis.
So while Sun News Network will not get the mandatory carriage order it sought, the CRTC has put forward a streamlined process to rewrite the rules for Sun News and its competitors.

Meanwhile…

APTN renewed. Race based programming and 80's american movies are culturally valuable. Conservative viewpoints aren't. What a load, #crtc.

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) August 8, 2013

Update: Paul Wells thinks there’s more sunshine than darkness to be found in the decision.

Newsbusters;

… the wire service more appropriately known as the Administration’s Press is back to its old tricks, and then some. On Wednesday, as will be seen after the jump, reporter Russ Bynum disgracefully covered up a geographic gaffe by President Obama during his Tuesday appearance on Jay Leno’s show […] by putting words Obama didn’t say into his mouth…

“No one will weep for these liars who have misled generations of people by deceit, or omission, of the reality of this World. For Collectivist fantasy. The Unicorns are finally goring themselves. When Stalin was a big name they lauded him. Mugabe was the Savour of Africa. Mandella the new Moses of racial harmony. Hitler a great economist. Look how it all turned out. Mass Murder hidden by these maggots of myth. The so called intelligentsia of journalism is just a common bawdy house full of decrepit whores of totalitarianism. The mammals in the end will win.”

Michael Walsh;

In any case, it’s all over for the MSM. When I started at Time in 1981 under its last great managing editor, Ray Cave, it was commonly acknowledged that the Big Seven media outlets decided what was and was not news for the American public: the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and the three broadcast networks. Today, not so much. In their place have come the small furry mammals of the Internet, harassing and ultimately supplanting the Manhattan- and Washington-bound dinosaurs. Somewhere along the line, Sousa’s Washington Post March turned into a march of the falsettos. The old media continued to bleat, but once they proudly jettisoned the outdated notion of at least nominally “objective” journalism in favor of “higher truth” and partisan cheerleading, their audience abandoned them.
[…]
The irony is that many mainstream journalists spent the better parts of their careers striving to become opinion journalists and talking heads instead of grubby reporters, and all of a sudden they find themselves in a democratized world in which everybody is a talking head and opinion journalist.

Related: Fear and Loathing at the Newstands

Related: Fish Don’t Know They’re Wet
More! “Journalists respond with snark and awe” (h/t Fearless Leader)

I just became the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper's most-read article. http://t.co/BPOTzihZoT

— Drew Johnson (@Drews_Views) August 1, 2013

More: “…did anyone from the Obama Administration or the Democratic Party call about this headline before Johnson was fired?”

Name that Party!

Political scandals come in two flavors:
1. “A Republican Culture of Corruption That May Have Started From the Very Top”
or:
2. “Some Guy”

Good grief.

As told by the Network That Blew Up A Truck. (Oops!)
Lots more here.

#MathIsHard “She’s a one-two-three girl," he said. "Shower, comb, lipstick, clothes and out the door.” http://t.co/qwciGQ5Ect

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 27, 2013