http://www.cusjc.ca Carleton Journalism Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:17:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paul Adams The talk of a possible coalition government died last year under the weight of two enormous obstacles. The first was that the proposed coalition was going to be led by Stéphane Dion. If Canadians thought that one thing had been decided in the 2008 election, it was that Dion was ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1238 There seems to have been no attempt to keep the details of the cabinet suffle tight -- just the opposite. The leaks to various reporters were all correct. There are two possible explanations:  More media-staff links have developed over time that have created sufficient trust to allow staffers to talk with some assurance they won't be ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1235   With the New Year comes continuing discussion of prorogation. Ironically, in the vacuum of a parliamentary shut down, political coverage focuses on the decision to create the vacuum. The weight of editorial, columnist and expert commentary has been surprising. And it is being largely self-generated by media. Opposition parties have not ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1231 Christopher Waddell Today’s Supreme Court decision is a welcome updating of laws regarding libel that should ensure more stories are pursued and published or broadcast as the media no longer will have to prove independently the accuracy of everything contained in those stories. Instead the Court has established the concept of ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1227 Paul Adams About a month ago, I posted seat projections based on EKOS' weekly survey of vote intention, which is released by the CBC. At the time, the Conservatives were enjoying a sudden updraft in popularity, apparently driven by the Liberal threat to bring the government down and force an election. They ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1223 In all the discussion about communications confusion surrounding HINI, there has been at least as much media coverage about assigning blame as about underlying issues.   On the face of it, the barriers to consistent communication would seem to include the multiplicity of voices and the challenge of responding in real time to a changing ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1218 Paul Adams There has been a dramatic shift in the Canadian political landscape in recent months. During the summer, the Liberals gradually gave up the advantage they had enjoyed over the Conservatives during most of the spring; but even as recently as the first weekly poll in September from EKOS (where ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1216 Christopher Waddell The announcement that the cbc,ca will provide sports content to the National Post while the Financial Post will provide business news content to the CBC, while making for curious bedfellows, is part of a cost-cutting trend of contracting out parts of newspaper/TV news operations to those with more expertise ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1210 Christopher Waddell A seat in the Senate has long been a reward for those who pitched the Conservative and Liberal parties to corporate donors. With laws now severely restricting corporate funding of political parties, the Conservatives have a new innovation - making Senator Mike Duffy into a pitchman with personally-addressed emailed ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1205 Christopher Waddell The commercialization of public broadcasting continues this time though through product placement of TD Canada Trust bank branches and signs in CBC dramatic and comedy series. Read all about it here. As the news release states: "In the hit comedy series Being Erica, Erica's (Erin Karpluk) GF's BF Anthony (Mark Taylor) ... http://www.cusjc.ca/?p=1200