The January 28 issue of Maclean's contains a glowing article about Brian Mulroney's resurgence in popularity, as if the public is supposed to forget all the things he did. This includes but is not limited to NAFTA, calling the railroad our national dream and then making cutbacks to it and calling the CBC one of our most important resources and doing the same thing. .
The January issue of Chatalaine contains an article about a woman who escaped a verbally abusive relationship. The main problem with the article is it's lack of journalistic detail. There's no real story to fill in the supporting facts about the man, the woman and the others involved in what happened.
The March 14 issue of Broadcast Dialogue features an article by the president of the North American Broadcasters Association about the need to adopt a new treaty for the protection of broadcasters' signals, read preventing piracy. These broadcast industry representatives don't want to prevent piracy. Rather, they would like to censor the internet to the point where it is like broadcast media now, that is, controlled by a few people feeding the public the information they want it to know.
The author, Jeff McEwan, mentions the loss of revenue to the producers of radio and television programming. However, internet piracy fuels sales of said forms of media. People eat before they buy, like it and eat some more legitimately.
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