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  1. To find Alert on a map - http://bit.ly/TLf0l. And Walter's Oly torch run report is here (starts @ 8:26) - http://bit.ly/zIWvk
  2. CTV News' Tom Walters was in Alert Monday for the Oly. torch run. Says it won't see daylight again until after the Olys. are over. :)
  3. RT @joshtpm TPM's hiring a Publisher. Is it you? http://bit.ly/1vI59j // Lotso other gigs there. Even the night ed. must be comf. on TV. :)
  4. @gmarkham Some good work does get done. But in gen'l, I have to give the Tories cred for gaming the news media.
  5. RT @lavrusik A sad but real fact: American daily newspapers employ 25% fewer people than in 2001: http://bit.ly/gQ2CW
  6. @gmarkham And yet the pols usually get away with it. Due to poor J-memory and J-conventions, they occ. get to slowly rewrite history too.
  7. RT @dangillmor One more time: "slow news" is much more about audience than journo behavior. Journos continue to think it's about them ...
  8. @gmarkham What if when a pol gave an off-topic MT response to a Q, we lay out the Q & say 'The politician gave an irrelevant answer'?
  9. @gmarkham ... &wondered if the only ones capable of cutting through were satirists like Jon Stewart. Only Peter Donolo gave a (dodgy) A.
  10. @gmarkham I asked a Q at a CJF panel a few yrs ago on whether thte MSM was helpless in the face of spin. ...
  11. Mel's Montreal Deli in the Annex says 'We never close.' Er, except when it's forever. The loc will emerge in December as a 'Hey Lucy.'
  12. @gmarkham That's one perspective. Maybe the other is the conventions of journalism allow them to get away with this shit.
  13. @wingszetang Well, you can, but wouldn't it be better to position yourself to be one of the exploiters, rather than the exploited? :)
  14. CTV's Craig Oliver on the message track virus that's infested federal politics - http://bit.ly/359yu4
  15. RT @M_Ignatieff Was reporting for the BBC, from London, on the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 yrs ago today – Berliners couldn’t believe it.
  16. Nena's '99 Luftballons,' a cold war pop classic about a release of balloons over Berlin triggering nuclear war - http://tinysong.com/7dew
  17. @DougSaunders I knew nothing of them. But you just sent me running to MySpace. I like what I hear.
  18. @DougSaunders Re: Bon Jovi - What, no Nina Hagen? :)
  19. RT @lavrusik Hamas bans journalism workshop in Gaza: http://bit.ly/3KVOCt - Was to discuss media ethics in Palestinian territories.
  20. RT @TheOnion Sports: Oversensitive Quarterback Reads Too Much Into Defense http://ow.ly/160u0d