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Media Bites: Justin Trudeau is Simba to the Media's Rafiki

J.J. McCullough | Posted 12.01.2012 | Canada Politics
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J.J. McCullough

2012-04-27-mediabitesreal.jpg The Liberal Party may not be formally electing their next leader till April of 2013, but providing you got wind of Justin's announcement-to-announce last Wednesday, you've already heard the only story that matters. Feel free to take the next seven months off. The Rafiki-lifting-baby-Simba-over-Pride-Rock narrative is so strong at this point, in fact, that even the Trudeau-bashers seem bored and resigned. They can whine, but it's a whine of irritation, not impact.

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Watching the Watchdog: I Went on Sun TV With My Dukes Up...

Tim Knight | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada
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Tim Knight

Far-right Sun TV invited me to debate "whether or not Canada's main stream media has a left-leaning bias." Then warning flags went up. What if they wanted to tar and feather me for some of the nasty things I've written about them? Or for being soft on the CBC? Or less-than-reverent to the Queen? I accepted.

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TV News Reaches Tipping Point: Mortally Ill or Worth Saving?

Kai Nagata | Posted 11.15.2011 | Canada
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Kai Nagata

Kai Nagata: Journalists are people you trust to experience something you don't have time to check out yourself. They are also fallible human beings, with their own assumptions. This is only a problem if they're not fair, or accurate. TV news is already a "fantasy world." It absolutely works to confirm "existing biases."

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