Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was quizzed about the [kangaroo] cull’s* possible damage to Australia’s image overseas and whether it would empower the pro-whaling lobby.
“I don’t think it will,” he told reporters.
Because, as the data clearly shows, whales have been hunted to extinction in the Outback, and across large parts of Australia.
(* They employed “military contractors” for the awful deed. Colour me impressed with this new Labour government – that’s better than the hakapic!)
The figures don’t lie. The only environmentally sustainable course of action for the Toronto Star is to commit corporate suicide. (More quickly than it already is, that is.)
For the planet.
For the children;
A prototypical publisher selling 250,000 newspapers on each of the 365 days of the year adds nearly 28,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to calculations we’ll explain in a moment. That’s roughly equivalent to the CO2 spewed by almost 3,700 Ford Explorers being driven 10,000 miles apiece per year. (Disclosure: I own a 12-year-old Ford Explorer. Anyone want to buy it?)
CO2 matters, because a dangerous buildup of the gas in the atmosphere – caused by the growing consumption of fossil fuels and the decimation of our forests – is causing the earth to warm to such dangerous and unprecedented levels that the health of the planet and its inhabitants are imperiled.
The problem for even the most environmentally sensitive print publisher is that every aspect of the business does uncontestable violence to the environment.
Tony Burman has taken on a new role with al-Jazeera as the Middle Eastern broadcaster’s managing director for its English-language station.
From CBC to Al Jazeera – a lateral career move if ever there was one.
Via Newsbusters
(edit: Patience/virtue waiting for the video.)
The Minneapolis Star Tribune teeters on the edge of bankruptcy.
Ahem.
h/t to atheist quebecois separatiste
“An avowedly progressive paper”.
That means the ax could fall on as many as 30 editorial people in the company’s first-ever mass firing of journalists in its 156-year history.”
As if elevating weather to news status wasn’t enough, our betters in media are now racing to notify unsuspecting Canadian drivers that gasoline prices have gone up.
Thank you, Lloyd Robertson. How ever could we cope without your high-priced expertise?
But wait – that’s not all! Today’s professional journalist isn’t content with merely reporting the blatantly obvious. Watch them spread their wings and soar into the realm of News Of The Future!.
Fuel prices to hit $2.25 by 2012
We should be thankful that these selfless souls remain in the service of their fellow citizens, when they might be out raking in millions in the stock market.
(Speaking of which – how come the guys who build climate modelling computers aren’t gazillionaires by now?)
The decline in the average duration of sessions at newspaper web pages suggests that visitors are not utilizing the industry’s sites as primary destinations, but, rather, as places to episodically view individual articles highlighted by Google News, Drudge, Digg, blogs or any of the thousands of other places they might be.
650CKOM’s David Kirton (breaking from Storm of the Century Forecast!! coverage); “Would you describe the scene as a war zone, Brent?”
Reporter Brent Bosker, in Nipawin; “Well no, I wouldn’t say that.”
Update – From the comments:
I live in Nipawin. I saw first hand the destruction of the blast and resulting fire. I knew the two men killed and the others hurt. I saw the panic in the people who had been in the buildings that were hit with the shock wave and my daughter’s friend was in the gym and her mother frantic search and then extremely happy when she found her daughter was not physically hurt.
The media no longer reports, they sensationalize. They look for the bad not the good. Our local emergency response teams, fire fighters and the hospital all did a fantastic professional job. The synchronization of services was flawless. A testament to the professionals and the small town caring as everyone knows everyone. I have not read or heard of one report about this aspect of this disaster. MSM is starting to become irrelevant, reports should be factual, emotions should be the follow up and reporters opinion should never form the basis of any report.
There is a move afoot to greatly reduce the services at the Nipawin Hospital and relocate them to the community of Melfort (punctuated by a political group supported by the Finance Minister and holding secret meeting with the Sask. Health Minister), which is not even central to the Kelsey Trail Health Region. Disasters like this do occur sadly (Nipawin has had a number over the last few years), without the service who knows what the results would of been.
Torstar Corp said on Thursday it will cut about 160 jobs in its newspaper division as the book and newspaper publisher copes with a declining newspaper market.
It makes one afraid to leave the house, eh?
| When Stephen Harper freezes out the Canadian media, they talk about the “hidden agenda”, and invite his opponents to the microphones. When Al Gore does it, they read aloud from his press release. |
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Four Canadian journalists who have stood up to threats to freedom of expression in Canada are the finalists for an annual World Press Freedom prize.
Toronto Star Asia Correspondent Bill Schiller, freelance journalist and author Derek Finkle, reporters Joel-Denis Bellavance and Gilles Toupin of Montreal’s La Presse and Maclean’s columnist Mark Steyn will be considered for the $2,000 prize, which is awarded each year to the Canadian media worker who, in the view of the jury, has made the most significant contribution to press freedom in this country over the previous 12 months.
The prize will be awarded by the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom at a lunch event marking World Press Freedom Day on Friday, May 2nd at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
(We’ve put a call in to Barbara Hall.)
“Of course, the real elephant drooling in the room of newspapers like the Seattle Times these days is “the forgotten reader.” These are the potential readers who, because of the unremitting liberal tone and slant of the Times in both the news hole and on the editorial page, loathe the Times and the whole sector of Seattle society it represents.
Now you may say, in a town as overwhelmingly liberal as Seattle, “Screw those troglodyte, Republican morons!” Well, you can say that but then you will, sooner or later, fire 200 of your employees.
Meet Newsbusters.
“The preceding would be on the front page of the Toronto Star or the Globe and Mail if it were true.”
“Angryjournalist.com”. Irony doesn’t get any better than this.