Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'rupertmurdoch'
July 14, 2007
White collar theft is relatively unexciting as news stories go, but yesterday's verdict from a Chicago courtroom fosters a special sort of antipathy toward the insufferable Lord and Lady Black of Crossharbour. It's not so much the US$60 million the dark Lord allegedly helped misappropriate, or how calling a CBC journalist a slut isn't particularly appropriate conduct for a Lady of faux nobility—it's that following years of jaw-dropping hubris which left a trail of......
Continue Reading "Black Ice"March 16, 2005
Read for a quick, unorganized look at the events of WORLD AGAINST WAR week in Toronto... The long, extended shadow over the field of journalism due to WMD's (and how there were none) will be examined in film tonight, courtesy of BoilingFrog.ca: 7:30pm @ Celt's Pub - 2872 Dundas St W (near Keele), $5 Independent Media in a Time of War, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism Keep reading for more scattered event listings.........
Continue Reading "This is What World Against War Week Looks Like"