The National Post sends Kathy Shaidle a snotty email.

Let’s play “fill the blank”.

The recent kidnapping and brutal murder of a Montana-based teacher Sherry Arnold has drawn more attention to the changes brought on by ______________.

No peeking.

Tangentially related…

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When Losers Write History: Why legacy-newspaper media reporters get their own industry so wrong

In 2012, they stuck em to a guy named George Zimmerman.

More – “it seems to be a bit of a race – can NBC sweep this down the memory hole before the crowd notices?”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Toronto Star – Oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig dead at age 70
Sunmedia – Eco-terrorist Wiebo Ludwig dies
h/t Andrew Coyne
Update: The obits continue to roll in from your moral and intellectual superiors…

Nice.

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NBC 1992 – suffers a humiliating bout of confessions and soul-searching after admitting it rigged the crash-and-burn of a GM truck
NBC 2012 – NBC editing of Zimmerman tape “seems to me to have been error with a purpose.”

It’s a live chat!

Today we will be discussing the viability of electric and natural gas-powered vehicles as potential replacements for petroleum

Except they’re not. They’re screening out the skeptical comments.
(Update – session is now ended.)

NBC is sorry they were caught;

That apology addresses the “Today” show’s failure to abridge accurately the conversation between Zimmerman and the dispatcher in this high-profile case. This is how the program portrayed a segment of that conversation:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

And here is how it actually went down:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.

This Mika Brzezinski “jealous prom queen” moment via Datechguy.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

…within its almost sealed-to-reality bubble. Paul Wells of Maclean’s (love or hate him he does try to commit some serious journalism and do some serious research) takes on his colleagues:

Long may they wallow in their Twitterverse.

You know you’ve entered a very different reality when Piers Morgan is the calm, professional one.

BC Blue – Not a word was mentioned by any of the clique of “Mean Girls” that make up a select group of Ottawa Hill journos who ‘decide’ what gossip will be the official media topic and what won’t be.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
(Saskatchewan, you done us proud! “…across the province, lights continued to glow as electrical consumption climbed 10 per cent.”)

Big Journalism;

NBC News is said to have launched an internal investigation into why it posted an edited version of George Zimmerman’s call to a 911 dispatcher made prior to a shooting incident resulting in the death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. The altered version made it appear as though Martin’s race was an important factor that night for Zimmerman, when, in fact, he was only answering a question posed by a 911 dispatcher.