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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Bloc blocks Maclean's ... · 3 replies · -14 points

You deserve it. MacLean's is a Harper butt-sniffing rag with a bunch of pundits working for it and barely any worthwhile journalism.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A know-nothing strain ... · 2 replies · -28 points

@jameshalifax No doubt that Harper's just playing all the cards he can. You're dead on about that. But the idea that they want to appear stupid is.. well.. stupid. It's a bizarre leftfield narrative that defies the perfect Occam's Razor answer of: "they're doing what they've always wanted and promised to do."

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A know-nothing strain ... · 7 replies · +44 points

The Harper government just wants to reduce the size and agency of all national institutions, wherever possible. Just look at the omnibus bill. Canada Post? Nuclear assets? They'll turf anything they can because when the West wanted in, it wanted in so that it could break open the central Canadian monopoly on power. That's what it has been doing since day one.

I'm pretty shocked Coyne missed that. He is, after all, the poster boy for mindless reduction of federal power in favour or corporate enterprise..

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Annals of Bozosity: Se... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm with you on everything except the part about a disappearing Bloc being good for the Liberals. Have you been to Quebec? Those Bloc voters are mostly conservatives and socialists. Very few would go to the Liberals I suspect.

13 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - It\'s Open Season For ... · 1 reply · 0 points

"extensive stories on celebrities that amount to little more than extended gossip"

Sounds like a pretty clear accusation of a lack of diligence.

You've generated debate. You've elicited a reaction from a working journalist who thinks your theory is ill-composed and poorly articulated. That's "debating the issue." You've received a rebuttal. Your response has basically been along the lines of 'I don't have room to explain why I'm right but I assure you I am.' I am challenging you to clearly establish why you think journalism is in 'silly season' or why you think now is any different than it ever has been. But instead you're hiding behind obscurantism.

This is a perspective, a debate generated on the issues of the day. Mission accomplished, The Mark.

Sorry if that's not the back-patting, self-congratulatory "debate" you wanted. I'll cease and desist if you want. Please feel free to go on with your condescension toward these journalists and newspapers.

13 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - It\'s Open Season For ... · 0 replies · 0 points

Baxter-Moore, if you're going to trash talk peoples' work, you're going to have to "detail your research." Otherwise, from whence does your credibility come? You've written an aimless screed here decrying the "so-called quality newspapers" for their lack of diligence. Yet you have shown very little diligence in your work. If your point of view is worthwhile, by all means, establish a case for it.

I'm not even saying Hirshberg is a monumental writer and diligent critic. I'm not defending them, I'm challenging you.

"Press, are becoming increasingly like the tabloids in their obsession with celebrity" is not a fact, it is a perspective. It also may bear some relevance, but not as such. You have to create an argument and support it with logic and detail. Your bio says you are a professor.

13 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - It\'s Open Season For ... · 0 replies · +1 points

How am I "off my meds"? This writer is critiquing journalism, but failing to use any meaningful metrics for judgement or any solid reporting methods such as actual primary sources and research. It's embarrassing.

13 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - It\'s Open Season For ... · 0 replies · 0 points

This article is silly, but I won't grace it with the word "journalism." Did you even read the MIA piece? There's nothing "gotcha" about it except maybe the slightly jiggered chronology of one quote and the stupid french fry thing. But they posted a correction. Other than that, it is what it is: a depiction of an extremely rich person with a lot of good artists around them (most notably Diplo) who portrays themself as something they are decidedly not.

Your article, on the other hand, as far as I can see, has zero research, zero primary sources, zero cited facts and a whole bunch of conjecture. I'll tell you what's "silly journalism": experts writing lazy think pieces with a whole lot of syntax and not too much semantics.

13 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - The State of Canadian ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Junos are not in any way representative of the vast talent pool in Canada. I've been a music journalist in Montreal for years and every year I wonder why these bland grant-funded CanCon people keep winning. It's seriously laughable.