Media

BEPPLE – Those who vandalized local CBC news vehicle are cowards

April 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

THIS PAST WEEKEND, Trump arrived in Kamloops, and it was an ugly scene. Using the words made famous by former U.S. president Donald Trump, one or more vandals spray painted [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Here’s to journalists who bravely bear witness to mayhem

January 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

THERE WAS A CERTAIN IRONY in finding a copy of The Epoch Times in my mailbox this week on the anniversary of the closing of The Kamloops Daily News. The Epoch Times is a [Continue]

MEDIA – A KGB guide to subverting the press to your own agenda

November 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

By LEE HARDING Frontier Centre for Public Policy ‘I CANNOT BUT WONDER why are people pushing for socialism and communism?” an elderly friend wrote on Facebook. “Are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ottawa’s plan to force digital giants to pay for news is doomed

October 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT in the recent throne speech but the federal government intends to tax the digital giants Facebook and Google (FG). The feds are reacting to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The pandemic will either kill newspapers or save them

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN of the community newspaper industry has a name — COVID-19. Or, the virus might prove to be its salvation. It could go either way. Several [Continue]

MEDIA – TRU student presented with Armchair Mayor Journalism Award

November 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Congratulations to Aidan Grether, the recipient of the 2019 Armchair Mayor Journalism Award. I had the pleasure of presenting Aidan with the award Thursday evening (Nov. 28, [Continue]

MEDIA – ‘People want truth, but not what the media are giving them’

September 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Canadians want the truth, but they want the truth about stories the media aren’t giving them, former CBC news anchor [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Canada’s media shouldn’t decide their own bailouts

May 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FEDERAL TAX SUBSIDIES to the media no doubt began with the best of intentions but they promise to end badly. Eight news organizations have [Continue]

KNOX – Well-known B.C. sports writer Jim Taylor was a childhood hero

January 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

“NOBODY WANTS to do funny anymore,” Jim Taylor would say, every time we talked. “They’re all so serious.” I would respond by furrowing my brow and nodding seriously [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There will never be another like Angelo Iacobucci

December 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

ANGELO IACOBUCCI was good column fodder. I once wrote about watching in amazement as he sat in City council chambers during a meeting and ate French fries and clipped his toe [Continue]

MEDIA – Legacy media is in a zombie state, so why waste public money on it?

December 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Leave reporting to independent innovators who build the public trust honestly. Any government subsidy surely undermines that trust By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media A [Continue]

FORSETH – News media must remain free from political interference

November 26, 2018 // 9 Comments

LAST WEEK I received two emails, and coincidentally they were both on the same topic…. the News Media. The first was from Leah who said to me … PLEASE DO A BLOG ON [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – News media need a new business model, not handouts

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE NEWS MEDIA are about to get help from the taxpayer — it’s help they neither deserve nor need. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau this week announced $600 million [Continue]

JOURNALISM – ‘We’re in deep shit’ says veteran broadcaster Keith Morrison

October 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

“We’re in deep shit, folks, we really are.” That’s how veteran Canadian-born broadcaster Keith Morrison assessed the state of journalism as he addressed the annual [Continue]