© 2010 Wade Rowland If a long career in journalism has taught me anything about watching and reading the news, it is that the details…
The field of communications and its practitioners are complicit in the construction and promotion of this new, potentially deeply anti-human economic frontier. While the technology and its applications may be bewilderingly new and awesomely potent, the moral obligations of workers and professionals are ultimately to be located in basic moral thought, and in particular, I would urge, in moral realism. The debate necessary to arrive at guiding ethical principles is only just beginning, but it has a profound body of consensus on which to build.
Mansbridge announced Monday night that he’s “let the CBC know that I’d like to step down from The National next July 1st, shortly after anchoring our very special Canada Day coverage for 2017.”
The CRTC has banned ads on CBC Radio 2 and ICI Musique. Could television be next?
The Hip concert may have been the most subversive program the CBC has ever aired.
In the summer of 1970 Secretary-General U Thant delivered a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that was dismissed in business circles and much…
Who after all, will defend the ineptly managed disastrously underfunded CBC? Certainly not the private, for-profit radio and television industry, or even newspapers, all of whom see themselves as being in direct competition with the CBC, both on the air and online.