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Watching the Watchdog: Telling Them Who's Boss

Tim Knight | Posted 02.06.2013 | Canada
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Tim Knight

It's not often that I get to publicly tell three of the big bosses of Canada's main TV news networks that too many of their journalists are lousy storytellers. And have the bosses listen. And even (more or less) agree.

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Watching the Watchdog: CTV Bests CBC on National News

Tim Knight | Posted 05.08.2012 | Canada
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Tim Knight

Compared to CBC's The National, CTV offers a cleaner, neater, tighter, better paced, and better-written news program. Even so, there's too much narrating over edits and when that's done, we stop listening to the words for a moment.

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Politics, College Sports Now Completely Monetized by Broadcasters

Bill Mann | Posted 11.24.2011 | Canada
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Bill Mann

TV money has turned our government into a rancorous, partisan, poisonous money machine. It's turned our campuses into farm teams and training camps for the pros. It's wonderful what our media and broadcasters have wrought.

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