Mar 22nd, 2010
Rob Ford’s social media assault gonna reach past his telephone
“Four years ago, there wasn’t something called so much as a social media,” Councillor Rob Ford’s presumptive mayoral campaign manager brother Doug Ford barked to the National Post last week. “And social media … that’s what helped Obama win the election.” It also helped Adam Giambrone screw himself out of the race, after [...]
Mar 22nd, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 22, 2010
Today on the Scroll: spurious SUNshine; uncloseted Randi; amusing Roger Ebert. Model brings SUNshine to Hollywood [Toronto Sun]: Tabloid staff preoccupied with relocating to cozier quarters in their sold-off building at 333 King Street East fake a local angle for a Saturday cover story, inferring that B-movie starlet Sandra Taylor, 43, has local roots, when really [...]
Mar 19th, 2010
Margret Wente is running out of new tools to complain about
Here’s how your sausage seemingly gets made at The Globe and Mail: columnist Margaret Wente notices a piece about the shallowness of attention-obsessed stay-at-home mommy bloggers in the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times, realizes such a website would never be on her radar, so uses her space in the newspaper to hold [...]
Mar 19th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 19, 2010
Today on the Scroll: much Degrassi; preserving trash at U of T; trademarking a la TD. Degrassi: The Next Generation Season 10 To Air Exclusively on MuchMusic [press release]: With the teen serial moving to a daily format as the anchor of the new TeenNick channel stateside, CTV had to plant it somewhere, and so the [...]
Mar 18th, 2010
Drake believes The Man can’t keep a personal brand down
“Her brand is always protected. That’s why,” says Aubrey Graham of old-school chanteuse Sade’s dismissal of his suggestion that she make a record with the rapper best known as Drake. “But I don’t think she really knows who I am.” For today, “Say Something” — a collab from Timbaland Presents Shock Value II — essentially [...]
Mar 18th, 2010
Fear of a sanitized Pride rains fresh rhetoric on gay parade
“Don’t sanitize Pride: Free expression must prevail” is the Facebook group of the week for the Middle East argument capital of the world. Last week, Pride Toronto announced that all signs being marched with in the Canada Day weekend main parade — and preceding Dyke March — must be approved in advance. Really, nothing [...]
Mar 18th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 18, 2010
Today on the Scroll: avenging Corey Haim; spinning NADbank; indicting CKLN. Attorney general: Arrest made in Corey Haim’s death [CNN]: “How many people go to 10 or 15 or 20 doctors and then run around to 10, 12 and more pharmacies to go fulfill them, and sometimes two different doctors in the same day?” [...]
Mar 17th, 2010
Corey Haim’s biggest fan drives 18 hours to be taken seriously
What does it take for a 35-year-old emergency room nurse and mother of four to prove her adoration of Corey Haim is such that she would drop everything to drive nine hours each way to be near his body? And get respect from the press for doing so? Standing outside his funeral, of course. While [...]
Mar 17th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 17, 2010
Today on the Scroll: gawking at SJP; bombing Miss Universe; meet Mitt Romney! Sarah Jessica Parker Does T.O.: Square Pegs star and her hair extensions appear at The Bay to promote Halston Heritage to local fashion media elite — Laureen Harper was even there, at the same time her husband was being interviewed on YouTube. Flare [...]
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