“I am depressed … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
Those were the words left in the suicide note of Kevin Carter, the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The chains of journalism
Posted in News, ethics, tagged Humanity, journalism, Kevin Carter, Mark MacKinnon, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Because people still judge a book by its cover
Posted in Corporate Communications, Government, News, elections, tagged Cabinet, David Caplan, George Smitherman, Government, Health, media, Media Relations, Ministry of Health, News, Ontario, Toronto Sun on June 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“There are rules to constructing a cabinet: You wouldn’t appoint an education minister with kids in private schools. You wouldn’t give a man with a record of wife-beating responsibility for women’s issues. And you don’t give a roly-poly smoker the prestigious health ministry.”
-Christina Blizzard, ‘Caplan’s no picture of health’, Queen’s Park, Toronto Sun
As a communications [...]