Who’s to blame for the disastrously bad Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery on CBC television?
Articles by Wade Rowland on communications technology, philosophy of science and religion, travel and other topics, including some scholarly articles.
Who’s to blame for the disastrously bad Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery on CBC television?
fundamental to public broadcasting is its universal accessibility. Like medical care and formal education, it should be available to everybody, for the simple reason that everybody benefits from being part of a healthy, well-educated community
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, the Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, made an historic blunder in granting permission to the CBC to accept advertising on…
© 2013 by Wade Rowland In a decision that Commission Vice-chairman Tom Pentefountas calls “crazy,” the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has decided by…
© 2013 by Wade Rowland Hockey Night in Canada, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, is by far the network’s most watched show. When…
© 2013 Wade Rowland As someone who teaches media studies to second year university students, I spend a deal of time each new semester explaining…
Anyone watching the new Conservative party attack ad aimed at the new Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, might well wonder why we should permit such deliberately…
We all agreed that the Life of Pi 3-D special effects were spectacular, and that the acting was on the whole pretty good. But something seemed to be missing, and the film seemed somehow deeply unsatisfying. Twelve hours later, after a night’s sleep, I had an answer that seems to me to make sense.