Media Critique

From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western media have systematically misrepresented developments on the battlefield. Time and again, major media organizations, including The New York [...]

In 2020, I accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Canadian Dimension (CD). CD describes itself as “the longest-standing voice of the left in Canada. For more than [...]

Britain’s leading ‘’centre-left’ newspaper just offered us a textbook example of the liberal media’s embrace of Pentagon propaganda. In an article entitled “US Navy to adopt ‘more assertive [...]

Along with Sharmini Peries, Gregory Wilpert and Yves Engler, I discuss yesterday’s meeting in Ottawa of the “Lima Group”, an ad hoc collection of right-leaning governments [...]

Analyses of the media coverage of hurricane Florence show that most outlets ignore the link to climate change and the real dangers that this and other hurricanes present for creating devastating [...]

“Thank God for Israel.” That is how Rosie DiManno began her latest descent into anti-Palestinian bigotry. DiManno, in case you did not know, is a columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest [...]

Malcolm X: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” In 2016, as Green [...]

On September 4, 2017, Moscow-based reporter John Helmer published his latest in a series of articles on Canada’s Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland. Entitled “Canadian Foreign Minister Freeland [...]

(NOTE: an edited version of this article was first published on Ricochet Media on December 15, 2016) In early 2016, Toronto Star columnist David Olive authored a scathing critique of Postmedia, [...]

January 2, 2017 As 2016 drew to a close, Canadians learned something new about the CBC’s curmudgeon-in-chief, Rex Murphy: when Murphy isn’t spewing disinformation about climate change or stroking [...]