So Junior wants to go off to Carleton or Ryerson or Columbia for a few years to study up for a career in journalism?
Just say no!
First of all, a journalism degree is a ticket into the precariat. After four or five years Junior will be lucky to find him or herself in an unpaid internship.
Even "real" journalists who get paid find themselves recycling corporate press releases and passing them off as "news."
For example, Christina Blizzard had a great article across the Sunmedia (soon to be a division of Postmedia, because two stinkers make a rose...) chain on Feb. 12 about how we can save a lot of money on policing. Good solid journalism, eh? She even talked to Stephan Cretier, boss of one of the worlds biggest private security outfits, Garda. Her keen investigative journalism reveals that we can replace a lot of $100,000/yr cops with $40,000/private security guards.
Dig around a little, and you'll soon discover that all she's done is recycle this Jan. 29 Garda press release!
That's what passes for "journalism" today.
Journalism was once an honourable profession.
And PS, the only mall cop making 40k is some poor shmuck with no life working three or four double shifts every week.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Monday, June 2, 2014
Ontario rocked by OPP attack ads
Yes, it's true, not only rocked, but "reeling", according to Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard.
First of all, that's not an "attack" ad, it's a defensive ad. It's Hudak who attacked all public servants by promising to fire 100,000 of them. What's so nefarious about some of those public servants buying advertising time to remind Ontario who they work for, and ask who Tim Hudak works for?
The article is a prime example of how the SUN uses the politics of envy to stir up controversy. An OPP officer makes 90k after three years on the job? Good for them! That's not seen as too rich by anyone who has had an emergency that requires immediate police attention. It's only seen as too rich by $15/hr folks who despise anyone who earns more than them. Maybe they should consider unionizing.
As for those small towns that whine about the cost of OPP policing, they remain perfectly free to maintain their own police squads and not opt into OPP contracts. The reason they don't is that they conclude that OPP coverage, pricey as it may seem, is the more cost-effective option.
As for the insinuation that Tim Hudak will henceforth be looking over his shoulder because he can't trust his OPP bodyguards... well, that's just stupid.
First of all, that's not an "attack" ad, it's a defensive ad. It's Hudak who attacked all public servants by promising to fire 100,000 of them. What's so nefarious about some of those public servants buying advertising time to remind Ontario who they work for, and ask who Tim Hudak works for?
The article is a prime example of how the SUN uses the politics of envy to stir up controversy. An OPP officer makes 90k after three years on the job? Good for them! That's not seen as too rich by anyone who has had an emergency that requires immediate police attention. It's only seen as too rich by $15/hr folks who despise anyone who earns more than them. Maybe they should consider unionizing.
As for those small towns that whine about the cost of OPP policing, they remain perfectly free to maintain their own police squads and not opt into OPP contracts. The reason they don't is that they conclude that OPP coverage, pricey as it may seem, is the more cost-effective option.
As for the insinuation that Tim Hudak will henceforth be looking over his shoulder because he can't trust his OPP bodyguards... well, that's just stupid.
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