Mar 2nd, 2010
March 2: Post-Olympic Roll Up
McDonald’s goes free to counter Tim Hortons [Toronto Star]: Newspaper that was free for two weeks with the claim that it had something to do with the Winter Olympics skeptically reports on fast food restaurant offering free coffee for two weeks with the claim that it has something to do with the Winter Olympics — [...]
Mar 1st, 2010
Second City discover YouTube after 25 years of trying
The Second City has a channel on YouTube — four years after one was set up by Monty Python, who claimed a 23,000 per cent increase in DVD sales as a result of recycling their ancient sketches online. And the legacy responsible for SCTV is still a going concern, right? Which means the vintage clips [...]
Mar 1st, 2010
How questioning ‘Idol’ altruism is like killing Gordon Lightfoot
The latest addition to the duties of Toronto Star public editor Kathy English: compelling Mayor David Miller to issue a correction — five days after the fact — for a tweet implicating the Toronto Star, along with the Toronto Sun, for reporting on February 18 that Gordon Lightfoot was dead. Guilty of the initial Twitter-sourced [...]
Mar 1st, 2010
March 1: Winter Olympics media meltdown
Who’s who of Canadian Music close out Games [Globe and Mail]: Just when it seemed the 2010 Winter Olympics would reach its denouement in the style of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, with Neil Young strumming “Long May You Run,” came a medley from the Hell Plaza HMV: Michael Bublé, Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Alanis [...]
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