The Globe has announced that the wall has come down for some paid content: “Every Globe columnist, daily horoscopes, crosswords, Sudoku puzzles and a suite of news-tracking tools are now free. Margaret Wente, Christie Blatchford, Jeffrey Simpson and the rest of The Globe’s best-known columnists can join the fray and add their talented voices to [...]

I know that conventional distribution of conventional video content is facing severe challenges. Still, it’s hard for me to be sympathetic to an attitude that looks at revenue from that business as a sinecure rather than an opportunity that must be earned. So how should one think about the idea that the networks [...]

The backlash against the apparently mediocre performance of Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous in ABC’s debate last night is another reminder of the importance of the ’sphere’s watchdog role.

Is there a Ridenhour ‘Cowardice Prize’? Via Michael, more skulking and concealing from government:
On Sept. 13, 2000, Chris Norman, director of the B.C. government’s information and privacy branch (CPIAB), sent an internal memo to all ministerial FOI directors, in which he reported that the attorney-general’s ministry had “raised the issue of Crown copyright.” CPIAB [...]

You could not find better evidence of how far behind the curve we in Canada are on innovation on the Web. While America builds, we watch. And read, apparently - in newspapers of all things! How quaint. What’s particularly troubling here is that as a result there is no pressure to [...]

They’re wrong.

Rachel has a stunning piece on Fox and its apparent fetish for Hitler’s resume.

An exceptional comment on Glenn Greenwald’s exceptional post about Monster-gate and off-the-record comments. Glennzilla’s post is now updated, including with this depressingly accurate precis of where we are on MSM political reporting:
Even after the lead-up to Iraq War, eight years of the Bush administration, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fiascoes and an [...]

Surprisingly, amid all the mindlessness of the MSM’s coverage of Monster-gate, little is being said of Power’s work reporting on the Clinton administration’s blind eye towards the Rwandan genocide. The ’sphere to the rescue. I’ve never thought Bill Clinton should be singled out for exclusive responsibility (I’m not suggesting that Power did this) [...]