Earlier this week, Candice Malcolm, a columnist at the Toronto Sun, published an article criticizing the federal budget. Here’s my response.
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Last week, Postmedia ran an article that claimed over 800,000 people claimed the CERB but weren’t eligible for it.
Yesterday, the Lethbridge Police Service published a media release regarding 6 arrests they made last Friday related to drug trafficking. In the release, they name all 6 individuals.
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Media objectivity is a myth
Our worldview determines how we view, perceive, and interpret events around us. Likewise, they determine how we retell those events.
The majority of workers in Lethbridge can’t afford the average cost of rent.
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The media aren’t objective
The local media can’t be bothered with reporting the truth. Or at least not all of it.
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The democratization of the media
A few months ago, I was asked to speak in a sociology class at the University of Lethbridge. The topic was taking back the community and the media. At one point, the discussion turned to the democratization of the media. At the time, the Alberta Legislature had recently banned what it had considered non-journalistic sources. […]