by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Elsewhere in a discussion on the dearth of municipal blogging, some of us toss around the fact that bloggers usually don’t do the kind of investigative legwork that reporters do, and can’t break stories. Meet a vital exception: Paul Willcocks and his blog,... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
Scott Piatkowski passes along this gem from AlterNet: Fox News is refusing to air an anti-Alito ad “citing its lawyers’ contention that the spot is factually incorrect.” Is it shooting fish in a barrel to say: “gee, I wish Fox News would apply... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Media Mix
The good Lord faces eight counts of fraud, according to a CBC News alert, and several years in jail if convicted. On the upside, all of those “get tough on crime” editorials seem to have worked. by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
To one of our commenters, Kenneth Tomlinson — the disgraced former chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — is an innocent man just trying to get at the truth. Well, not according to the corporation’s inspector general: A report by the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 13, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics, Technology
Political geeks — er, make that “civic-minded Canadians” — have a new resource to while away the hours between poring over riding boundaries and poll-by-poll results. CPAC, the Canadian Public Affairs Channel, is now offering some of its... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 12, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
My brother Mike has been ably chronicling the sad, slow-motion implosion of Ottawa’s Pink Triangle Services: Despite a plunge in community donations and a depleted budget surplus, the head of Pink Triangle Services is blaming a recent public controversy on...