John Ivison at his most obtuse – “Why are Harper supporters heckling the media?”
(Plus, (via) the excitable Andrew Coyne: Soldiers In Our Streets!)

Good ‘ol Terry Milewski – reliably doing his part to help bring home the base.

Back in the day, legacy media could bury an inconvenient story.

Those days are over.
h/t James.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Mainstream media, April 29th – “Naked Jack!!! Nothing here to see!!!
Maintream media, April 29th – Naked arms!!! Skank TV!!!

He’s just not that into you.

Deja Media all over again. Do these people EVER stop talking about themselves?
Overheard from outside the Twitter bunker;

@katewerk: Why blame the #CPC crowd? All through university they learned that shouting down speakers is “free speech”.
@TheERABrohm: shouting down a speaker is an action of defiance but interfering with a journalist doing his job is different.
@katewerk: So, we must never defy journalists. But, what if a journalist is invited to be a speaker?

What to do when he stops returning your calls.

A truth too inconvenient for the New York Times;

…this study also found that for some knowledge questions the Doubtful and Dissmissive [skeptics of man-made global warming] have as good an understanding, and in some cases better, than the Alarmed and Concerned.

Our tax dollars at work;

During an election, The National spends a fair chunk of its airtime covering the federal party leaders, their ambitions, their movements, their activities, policies and strategies.
This time around, our Reg Sherren is taking a different tack. He’s finding out about politics from ordinary Canadians who have been pulled into the political discussion pretty much against their will…simply for having the same name as a federal party leader.

h/t Chris Selley

“This page lists journalists who are either members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery or who report from Ottawa on a regular basis.”
Not all of them – just the ones on Twitter.

[Editor’s note: The headline on this article, like all headlines on opinion essays, was crafted by Monitor editors, not the writer. Please click on the “Comments” section below to read a note by Stefan Simanowitz outlining his objections to the headline, which he feels does not reflect the tone or content or his article.]

NYT; Some of Mr. Pelley’s colleagues privately worry that [anchoring the CBS Evening News] could be construed as a demotion for him….

Via Drudgereport

h/t Greg

“all 2776 news articles.”

h/t EBD

Via Hotair

“I can think of circumstances in which an editor might find skipping a week appealing enough to justify missing some news–say, if printing and distributing each issue put you many thousands of dollars further in the hole…”

h/t

@Canadian media.