BlogsCanada: E-GroupMulti-partisan political punditryThe Film Industry and The NFB- March 21, 2007 The vision of Canada as a cultural and social entity is typically a long-forgotten debate in the mainstream media and blogosphere. As opposed to letting Canada develop its own grassroots sense of culture - much like the USA with jazz, hip-hop, and the dense, local cultures in Mississipi, Texas, Chicago, etc the government has tried to systematically define its own vision of Canadian culture through the use of institutions and grants. And this cultural...http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d263c70c-2743-40d0-9a78-3ca96d3816c6 Compared to Internet Journalism, How Credible Is the Traditional Media- March 9, 2007 My recent piece, "The Digital Media Points the Way to Liberty," brought interesting responses from the traditional media. One news columnist from a Toronto rag thoughtfully opined: "The problem with 'digital media' is that they almost never do their own reporting. That is, they pick up things they have seen or heard elsewhere--often on the web--and recycle the stuff without checking it out. They are, in other words, highly unreliable.--iu" That argument almost surely begs for the counter-point.http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8c93bf05-27da-4461-a7de-fa96b3fdbd04 |