When it comes to online news, some organizations have simply never understood how to adapt. As history has shown those who fail to adapt, whether it be organizations or organisms, die out. The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star are, sadly, two such organizations. Recently the Globe and Mail put up a pay wall and…
Paywalls and Dinosaurs in Journalism
When it comes to online news, some organizations have simply never understood how to adapt. As history has shown those who fail to adapt, whether it be organizations or organisms, die out. The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star are, sadly, two such organizations. Recently the Globe and Mail put up a pay wall and…
New Petition for the CBC
I don’t know how effective online petitions are, but people seem to like them. When the CBC funding issue first came up I created an event for it on Facebook. This has caused some confusion but I created an event rather than a group because there is a finite timeline. The current funding crisis will…
MVP: Most Vindicated Player?
Back in January, I blogged here about the new hockey soap MVP, having done a little work on the pilot a year prior. I called it “big, stupid, nasty, trashy fun”, and wondered if the CBC could handle such a show. Of course, we know now that it couldn’t. As usually happens, there was some…