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CMCR Project 2012 Data Release: Concentration Trends in the Telecom-Media-Internet Industries in Canada, Part 15 comments

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 5 days ago: Highlights (original posted to Canadian Media Concentration Research Project website) The CMCR analy … more →

Tags: Internet, Astral, bce, Bell, media economy Canada, media industries canada, network media economy Canada

The relationship between news and power

Garnett Hunter wrote 1 month ago: Our reliance upon the press for information is phenomenal. While the internet has ignited the potent … more →

Tags: Journalism, Law, Media 2, Opinion, writing, Anonymous Source, Concentration of Ownership, Coverage, Diversity

Mouths Almighty—Getting Louder?6 comments

lesliegriffithreports wrote 1 month ago: By Leslie Griffith and JP Sottile: In 1982, a patchwork of roughly fifty different companies, corpor … more →

Tags: Cozy Bedfellows, Mainstream media, FCC Rules, News Corporation

Concentrate on the Media

sophienewmarch wrote 1 month ago: One of the dryer topics, yet its always important to consider as it is what holds all of these emerg … more →

Tags: BCM310, BCM310, Fairfax, News Ltd, News Media Bill 2013

Photo Story - Transformation from high school to college (Changes)1 comment

creativecrista wrote 1 month ago: Transitioning from high school to college has to be one of the most interesting and difficult transi … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Rupert Murdoch is basically Pinochet...11 comments

Ed Butler wrote 2 months ago: …under Senator Conroy’s proposed media regulations, I can still say that. Whatever the c … more →

Tags: Labor, Policies, media, Stephen Conroy, media regulation, Public Interest, media ownership, Media Reform

A Conroy of No Confidence3 comments

mrtiedt wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been referring to the Daily Telegraph as the “Daily TerrorGraph” for quite a … more →

Tags: Labor, Policies, media, Stephen Conroy, Public Interest, media ownership, Self-regulation, Media Reform

Competition Bureau Blesses Bell - Shaw Take-Over of Astral Media 1 comment

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 2 months ago: Bell Astral Round 2 officially got under way today with an announcement by the Competition Bureau th … more →

Tags: Internet, Bell, Competition bureau, Internet concentration, Astral

Press Pause: Why the CRTC Should Delay the Bell-Astral Round 2 Hearings1 comment

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 3 months ago: My column for the Globe and Mail today argues that the CRTC should take it’s time before putti … more →

Tags: Internet, Astral Media, Bell, Bell Astral, CRTC

Media Concentration in Canada re: The Idle No More Movement3 comments

mytiturk wrote 4 months ago: Idle No More folks are now protesting every day at noon in front of the Brampton Guardian offices. M … more →

Tags: Politics, Writing #2, Canada, IdleNoMore, Brampton Guardian, National Post, Torstar, Metroland Media Group, Ian Oliver

What "Morgan Freeman" should have said about the Newton, CT shooting2 comments

Lavender Blume wrote 5 months ago: Many people are applauding what is circulating as Morgan Freeman’s take on the Connecticut sho … more →

Tags: Politics & Society, Eastern & New Age Philosophy, adam lanza, bowling for columbine, connecticut, connecticut shooting, constitution, fake Morgan Freenan, Gun Control

Journos as Megaphones: The Globe and Mail Covers Bell2 comments

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 5 months ago: Once again, yet another story in the Globe and Mail yesterday was out peddling a tale of doom and gl … more →

Tags: Internet, Bell, crisis of television, Globe and Mail, Journalism, television industry Canada

Internet & Media Governance in the News Today!

LRS wrote 5 months ago: Ian Munroe, CBC News , 11/29: Should the UN Govern the Internet? http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/s … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, Canadian ICT policy, Canada telecom policy, Privacy, internet governance, ICANN, mobile phones

Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984 - 201111 comments

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 5 months ago: As my last post explained, the media economy in Canada has grown immensely and become far more compl … more →

Tags: Internet, Bell, Bell Astral, CRTC, digital media concentration, Internet concentration, media ownership, network media economy

Shadows of Liberty: Cinema Politica screening looks at U.S. media, Monday, Nov. 5

Liz Ferguson wrote 6 months ago: I haven’t seen Shadows of Liberty, the documentary that the Concordia branch of Cinema Politic … more →

Tags: The Cine Files, Cinema Politica, communications, Documentaries, Liz Ferguson, monopolies, montreal gazette

What about a diversity of voices in newspapers?

streetcitizenship wrote 6 months ago: Have you ever thought about who owns your local newspaper? Do you wonder how press ownership can inf … more →

Tags: Journalism, Media and Politics, media centralization, media regulation

CRTC Kills Bell Astral Deal: What Happened and Why?

Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog wrote 7 months ago: On Thursday this week, the CRTC killed the Bell Astral deal (news release, full decision). The decis … more →

Tags: Internet, Astral, Bell, Bell Astral, CRTC, Internet concentration

The Davids

qatzelok wrote 7 months ago: soundtrack … We all know what we’ve seen in the press about David and Goliath: innocent David … more →

Tags: The Fake History Project, spin, ancestor worship, Banking Dictatorship, Secret Societies, organized crime, Omerta, swarming, Paparazzi

CRTC BCE-Astral Hearings

LRS wrote 8 months ago: In Day Two of the CRTC public hearings in Montreal over the $3.4B bid for BCE to buy Astral, Pierre … more →

Tags: CRTC, Canadian ICT policy, media ownership


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