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		<title>Two Gazette legends exposed</title>
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In the video above, editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) goes behind the scenes as he draws five cartoons of the federal party leaders as sports-themed bobbleheads (you can see the cartoons on the Viewpoints page).
Meanwhile, CBC interviews Red Fisher, who has been covering the Canadiens since the dawn of time.
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<p>In the video above, editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) goes behind the scenes as he draws five cartoons of the federal party leaders as sports-themed bobbleheads (you can see the cartoons on the <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/index.html">Viewpoints page</a>).</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/30/canadiens-hundred-memories.html">CBC interviews Red Fisher</a>, who has been covering the Canadiens since the dawn of time.</p>
<p>One day I hope to be able to meet them, and be referred to as something beyond &#8220;that kid over there.&#8221; But that&#8217;s years away.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/pats-back-the-new-rds-hockey-special-section/" title="Pat&#8217;s back; the new RDS; Hockey special section">Pat&#8217;s back; the new RDS; Hockey special section</a></li>
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/gazette-talks-canwest-scabs/" title="Vultures circling as talks continue">Vultures circling as talks continue</a></li>
<li>October 3, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/03/gazette-staff-start-byline-strike/" title="Gazette staff start byline strike">Gazette staff start byline strike</a></li>
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		<title>Hockey Night is dead. Long live RDS</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/hockey-night-is-dead-long-live-rds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there you go. CBC&#8217;s Hockey Anthem Challenge winner, out of almost 15,000 entries submitted, is Colin Oberst&#8217;s Canadian Gold. The one with the bagpipes. Hockey Night in Canada made a big thing about it, with loud congratulations from Don Cherry. And Oberst takes home a $100,000 cheque.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So there you go. CBC&#8217;s Hockey Anthem Challenge winner, out of almost 15,000 entries submitted, is <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/colinoberst/289271">Colin Oberst&#8217;s Canadian Gold</a>. The one with the bagpipes. Hockey Night in Canada made a big thing about it, with loud congratulations from Don Cherry. And Oberst takes home a $100,000 cheque.</p>
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<p>UPDATE: CBC has posted <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/clips/mov/hnic-theme-081011.mov">the announcement, new theme and a season intro montage</a> in Quicktime format.</p>
<p>With the new theme comes new intro graphics as well. This season, rather than go the classic route of showing hits, goals and saves, CBC has gotten its computer graphics department on overdrive, recreating classic moves so they could look at them from impossible angles (even simulating Bobby Orr&#8217;s Stanley Cup-winning goal, which created <a href="http://www.bobbyorr.com/product1.aspx?SID=60&amp;Product_ID=105&amp;Category_ID=36">the best sports photo of all time</a>). Unfortunately, this kind of computer animation still has a long way to go, and it just ends up looking like they&#8217;re showing scenes from <a href="http://www.easports.com/nhl09/">EA&#8217;s NHL 09 video game</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on RDS, <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/25/ctvs-new-hockey-theme/">the original Hockey Theme reigns</a>. They paid a lot more for it, and their re-recording doesn&#8217;t sound as good as the most recent CBC version, but it still sounds better. It&#8217;s still the one with that special place in our hearts.</p>
<p>Real Canadiens fans have been watching RDS for years now. Even Leafs fans have moved to TSN or Rogers SportsNet. Many people I know turn to CBC to watch the opening theme and switch to RDS for the play-by-play.</p>
<p>Now, with the hockey theme on RDS, does Hockey Night in Canada have any purpose anymore?<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>September 25, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/25/ctvs-new-hockey-theme/" title="CTV&#8217;s new Hockey Theme">CTV&#8217;s new Hockey Theme</a></li>
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/hockey-themes-are-not-games/" title="Hockey themes are not games">Hockey themes are not games</a></li>
<li>June 9, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/09/the-theme-that-wouldnt-die/" title="The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die">The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die</a></li>
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		<title>TQS&#8217;s bare-bones &#8220;news&#8221;cast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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So everyone Richard Therrien has been talking about the new half-hour weekend newscast that premiered on TQS tonight. So I decided to take a gander.
TQS, you&#8217;ll recall, essentially shut down its news operation after it couldn&#8217;t find a buyer and decided that amputation was the best way to stop the bleeding. After the CRTC pointed [...]]]></description>
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<p>So <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">everyone</span> <a href="http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/therrien/?p=242&amp;utm_source=Fagstein">Richard Therrien</a> has been talking about the <a href="http://www.tqs.ca/tout-sur-tqs/communiques/2008/666.php">new half-hour weekend newscast</a> that premiered on TQS tonight. So I decided to take a gander.</p>
<p>TQS, you&#8217;ll recall, <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/04/23/tqs-gutting-news-division/">essentially shut down its news operation</a> after it couldn&#8217;t find a buyer and decided that amputation was the best way to stop the bleeding. After the CRTC pointed out that providing news and information programming was a condition of license, the two fought it out and <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/26/crtc-caves-bends-rules-for-tqs/">CRTC caved</a>, allowing joke newscasts of a few minutes a day.</p>
<p>What we&#8217;re left with is this piece of utter garbage produced by an outfit called ADN5 (actually @DN<sup>5</sup>, cause that kind of typography is cooler).</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the skinny:</p>
<ul>
<li>The &#8220;studio&#8221; is just some woman standing in front of a green screen, which replaces it with a white background and &#8220;1730&#8243; going round and round in the background.</li>
<li>Most of the news is in the form of voice-overs and B-roll, stretched to the point where it becomes awkward. These things work for 10-second briefs, but not minute-long reports. And the lack of any text on screen only makes it worse.</li>
<li>There are standard news packages about fluff local news, one from each of the regions that TQS is supposed to cover: Saguenay, Quebec City, Trois Rivières, Sherbrooke and Montreal.</li>
<li>The letters &#8220;TQS&#8221; are not spoken during the newscast. I&#8217;m not quite sure why this is (does ADN5 plan to sell this crap to other media?). The reporters seem not to know whether to sign off their reports with &#8220;ADN5&#8243;, just their names, or nothing at all.</li>
<li>Have you ever been annoyed by the sound of someone tapping their fingers on a table? You know, that sound where all four fingers hit the table in succession, starting with the pinky and working its way up? This newscast seems to be in love with this sound, and uses it any time a super comes up to identify someone during a report. It&#8217;s distracting and pointless, but I guess someone thought it sounded cool.</li>
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<p>I wish there was something good I could say about it. It could have been much worse. At least it wasn&#8217;t a trainwreck.</p>
<p>And it makes <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/07/global-quebec-fake-local-news/">Global Quebec&#8217;s newscast</a> look professional by comparison.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
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<li>No related posts</li>
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		<title>Tories win again in newspaper endorsements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, with the central issue of the vote being the sponsorship scandal (or at least that was what the media was telling us was the central issue), many newspapers who had previously (but begrudgingly) endorsed the Liberal Party switched sides and said the Conservatives deserve a chance to govern.
Most newspapers in the Canwest, Sun [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2006, with the central issue of the vote being the sponsorship scandal (or at least that was what the media was telling us was the central issue), many newspapers who had previously (but begrudgingly) endorsed the Liberal Party switched sides and said the Conservatives deserve a chance to govern.</p>
<p>Most newspapers in the Canwest, Sun and Gesca chains backed the Tories, as did the Globe and Mail. The two main dissenters were the Toronto Star, which continued to support the Liberals, and Le Devoir, which steadfastly stood behind the Bloc Québécois.</p>
<p>This year, not much has changed, except for the reasons behind the endorsements. Talk of Gomery, Gagliano and Guité has been replaced by acknowledgments of apologies and discussions of steady hands that can guide us through economic difficulties.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how it breaks down this time:</p>
<h4>Endorsing the Conservatives</h4>
<p>The <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/election-2008/story.html?id=866505"><strong>National Post</strong></a>, unsurprisingly, hits on just about all of the conservative talking points in endorsing a Conservative Party majority. Taxes, national defence, Canada-U.S. relations, and the avoidance of &#8220;large-scale Trudeauvian social-engineering schemes&#8221; (i.e. health care, education and other spending) and having no plan for the environment that might adversely affect the economy. It talks about Harper&#8217;s management of &#8220;the Quebec file,&#8221; which as a Quebecer I find somewhat patronizing.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.weelection2008/BNStory/Front/home/?pageRequested=all"><strong>Globe and Mail</strong></a> takes a softer approach, endorsing Harper but also giving a list of demands for the next term. Though it doesn&#8217;t specifically say Harper should lead a minority government, it suggests that this is inevitable, and seems to be comfortable with that. Again, lots of talk about steadyhandedness and how Dion is &#8220;not a leader,&#8221; a phrase right out of the Tory handbook. The Globe also, laudably, defended its endorsement to readers in <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.wliveelxngeiger1010/BNStory/Front/?pageRequested=all">a live Q&amp;A session</a>. Both pages also include links to previous endorsements, which other newspaper websites either forgot or were too lazy to do.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=2c2083b9-4d72-4fe3-874f-2b00eba5d867"><strong>Ottawa Citizen</strong></a>&#8217;s endorsement is mainly about respecting Harper for formal apologies in the House and his decision not to go to Bejing. Interestingly, it also endorses the Liberal Green Shift plan, and suggests that Harper essentially steal it and use it to fill the giant green gap in the Conservative Party platform. I think this part might touch a lot of Canadians who don&#8217;t think Dion should be prime minister but who don&#8217;t want the Green Shift idea (taxing carbon and offsetting it with other tax cuts) to die with Dion&#8217;s political career.</p>
<p>My own newspaper, <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=842b61df-7004-4cfb-9f61-513309031805"><strong>The Gazette</strong></a> (which didn&#8217;t consult me before making its endorsement), talks a bit about how Conservative policy is best but focuses mainly on telling people to cast ballots strategically to defeat the Bloc. Since the Bloc has no hope of being in power, and sovereignty is not on our doorstep, it seems a strange position to take. The big question is whether the Tories will have a majority or minority government, and lumping the federalist parties together ignores that issue. In fact, if anything I&#8217;d think many Quebecers are for the first time considering <em>not</em> voting strategically for this very reason. At the end, it also endorses individual candidates in Montreal-area ridings, basically naming all the star candidates (with Gilles Duceppe being the notable exception): Dion, Michael Fortier (C), Thomas Mulcair (NDP), Irwin Cotler (L), Marc Garneau (L), and Justin Trudeau (L).</p>
<h4>Endorsing the Liberals</h4>
<p>The <a href="http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/515895"><strong>Toronto Star</strong></a> just doesn&#8217;t know when to quit them. Canada&#8217;s liberal voice spends much of its endorsement blasting Harper with the usual left-wing talking points, using scary terms like &#8220;neo-conservative.&#8221; Its endorsement of Dion&#8217;s leadership abilities is weak at best, and it talks about the Liberal team to make up for it. The Green Shift, of course, also gets lauded, as the only Liberal platform point anyone can recite from memory.</p>
<h4>Endorsing the Bloc Québécois</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/10/11/210210.html"><strong>Le Devoir</strong></a>&#8217;s endorsement of the Bloc, a foregone conclusion for about a decade now, almost forgets to talk about the party or its leader. It spends most of its time attacking the Liberals and Conservatives on their many mistakes. When it comes down to giving people a reason to vote for the Bloc, it gives the usual vague point about how the Bloc represents the interests of Quebec first, without giving any supporting evidence that they have done so.</p>
<h4>No endorsement</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/editorialistes/andre-pratte/200810/09/01-27866-aucun-parti-nest-a-la-hauteur.php"><strong>La Presse</strong></a>, which signs all its editorials and endorsed the Conservatives last time, has taken the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">cowardly</span> populist position that no party is good enough to lead this country. It rakes the Liberals and Conservatives, though André Pratte points out that Dion&#8217;s campaign wasn&#8217;t as awful as had been predicted by everyone but him. Instead of endorsing a national party, the editorial suggests people look at the individual candidates in their riding and choose the one which best represents their interests. It doesn&#8217;t name any specific names.</p>
<p>Have I missed any? Link to others (big media or small) you find in comments below.</p>
<h4>But are they biased?</h4>
<p>Newspaper endorsements are worth the paper they&#8217;re printed on, and usually only given attention by the candidates they endorse. Certainly Stephen Harper and the Conservatives will make a point of all the endorsements they&#8217;ve received in order to reassure voters that they&#8217;re not evil or scary.</p>
<p>But the thing with these endorsements is that they&#8217;re written by owners and managers of large newspapers, who are usually quite well-off. They&#8217;re worried about the economy, but not about whether they&#8217;ll be able to put food on their table. They care about the price of a car, but not the price of a bus ticket. They&#8217;re not so out of touch that they don&#8217;t know what the price of milk is at the grocery store, but there&#8217;s clearly a bias here. Opinion polls put the Conservatives in the lead, but still well below 50%, meaning most Canadians don&#8217;t support the party.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s an easy solution to this. Perhaps newspapers should take votes of all their staff, or stop endorsing candidates. Or just leave everything to me.</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=2883">J-Source points</a> to <a href="http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/515896">a piece by the Star&#8217;s public editor about the nature of newspaper endorsements</a>.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/dion-ctv-interview/" title="Journalism, politics sink together to a new low">Journalism, politics sink together to a new low</a></li>
<li>October 7, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/07/dion-on-much/" title="Iz tha green shitz">Iz tha green shitz</a></li>
<li>October 1, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/01/liveblogging-the-leaders-debate/" title="Liveblogging the leaders&#8217; debate">Liveblogging the leaders&#8217; debate</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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I was busy dealing with real news tonight, so I completely missed the broohaha over this incident with Stéphane Dion and ATV News.
For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, you&#8217;re lucky to have limited exposure to the echo chamber of political gossip reporting. Here&#8217;s the deal: ATV (an Atlantic TV network owned by CTV and [...]]]></description>
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<p>I was busy dealing with real news tonight, so I completely missed the broohaha over this incident with Stéphane Dion and ATV News.</p>
<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, you&#8217;re lucky to have limited exposure to the echo chamber of political gossip reporting. Here&#8217;s the deal: ATV (an Atlantic TV network owned by CTV and rebranded CTV Atlantic) had Stéphane Dion on for an on-camera but pre-taped interview. Host Steve Murphy asked Dion a question about what he&#8217;d do about the economy if he was prime minister today, and Dion started answering before realizing he didn&#8217;t quite understand the question. It was an awkward exchange with a few false starts.</p>
<p>Dion asked if they could re-start the interview, and Murphy agreed. Murphy also, according to CTV, &#8220;indicated&#8221; that the bad part of the interview would not be aired.</p>
<p>Except later, after the interview, people at the network huddled and decided to go back on their word and air the outtakes, deeming them to have some news value.</p>
<p>Thanks to Stephen Harper&#8217;s decision to devote a whole press conference to this &#8220;gaffe,&#8221; it&#8217;s been analyzed from all angles:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://watch.ctv.ca/news/mike-duffy-live/thursday-oct-9/#clip101442">Mike Duffy aired the outtakes on his CTV NewsNet program</a>, leading a Liberal panelist to accuse him of making fun of Dion&#8217;s physical impairment.</li>
<li><a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPcgoh9WssRIkL5_Them8HkPkNIA">Canadian Press has analysis of the journalism ethics implications</a></li>
<li><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/10/198297.aspx">Colby Cosh looks into Murphy&#8217;s grammar</a> and how a non-native English speaker might have trouble understanding it</li>
<li>The Globe and Mail has <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.welxndionatv1009/BNStory/politics/home?cid=al_gam_mostview">the Liberals&#8217; reaction to the Tory attacks</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081010.wliberals1010/BNStory/Front">a specific response from Dion</a> saying he just didn&#8217;t understand the question</li>
<li>Norman Spector points out that <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081009.WBSpector20081009224236/WBStory/WBSpector">this kind of thing has happened before</a></li>
<li>Canwest has <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=453209d3-1851-499a-b420-53811a5538f9">reaction from Gilles Duceppe</a>, who points out that francophone federal leaders are held to a different standards, while anglo leaders don&#8217;t have to know French at all.</li>
<li>Richard Martineau has <a href="http://martineau.blogue.canoe.ca/2008/10/10/say_what">his usual fake outrage</a>. And <a href="http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/09/mike-duffy-is-a-despicable-human-being/">similarly from the other side</a> of this non-story.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/10/that-dion-interview-in-full/">Andrew Coyne takes the view closest to my own</a>, mainly saying that this is a non-issue and the backlash to it is just as stupid.</li>
</ul>
<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add, so I&#8217;ll keep it brief:</p>
<ul>
<li>CTV&#8217;s transgression was not a breach of journalistic ethics. There was no promise of confidentiality, no pre-agreement, and no information was gained through deception. Murphy did, however, go back on his word by airing the outtakes after he &#8220;indicated&#8221; he wouldn&#8217;t.</li>
<li>Dion&#8217;s campaign is right when they say the purpose of airing this was to embarrass Dion. It&#8217;s a secret every journalist keeps, even to the point of deceiving ourselves. Political campaigns so ruthlessly control the narrative, that latching on to something they don&#8217;t want you to talk about gives us a thrill. It&#8217;s not that CTV is biased against Dion. It&#8217;s simply biased against politicians and in favour of scandal.</li>
<li>CTV wasted minutes of airtime putting this interview out there. This time could have been spent on news, and the interview outtakes posted to a blog somewhere. Had that happened, we would not be discussing journalistic ethics here, but the clip would have gotten just as much traction online.</li>
<li>The clip has little news value. It shows that Dion is a logical thinker, perhaps to a fault, in trying to wrap himself around the exact hypothetical situation. But that&#8217;s not why CTV chose to air it. The fact that they did not specify what news value it contained is a good indication that there was none.</li>
<li>Some have mentioned that Dion has a hearing problem and that may be related. It&#8217;s not. The question was clear and the room was quiet. It was a logical comprehension question, mixed in with some grammar issues.</li>
</ul>
<p>Conclusion: Steve Murphy and his cohorts at ATV are douches, and Stéphane Dion a human francophone who can be annoyingly professorial at times. And it&#8217;s just a matter of time before someone unearths an interview outtake of Stephen Harper that makes him look bad.</p>
<p>Now can we get back to the issues?<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 7, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/07/dion-on-much/" title="Iz tha green shitz">Iz tha green shitz</a></li>
<li>October 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/newspaper-endorsements/" title="Tories win again in newspaper endorsements">Tories win again in newspaper endorsements</a></li>
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/hockey-themes-are-not-games/" title="Hockey themes are not games">Hockey themes are not games</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear CTV,
Canada&#8217;s second national anthem should not be performed by Simple Plan. Period. (UPDATE: It&#8217;s worse than I thought)
And as for you CBC, don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re so awesome what with your conflicts of interest and potentially putting your anthemical future in the hands of a 13-year-old.  (He&#8217;s one of the two finalists)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear CTV,</p>
<p>Canada&#8217;s second national anthem should <em>not</em> be <a href="http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=90661&amp;issue=10102008&amp;ref=rss">performed by Simple Plan</a>. Period. (UPDATE: It&#8217;s <a href="http://video.canada.com/mms/rt/1/site/canwest-montrealgazette-pub01-live/current/launch.html?maven_playerId=poweredby&amp;maven_referralPlaylistId=50a6493d2ae173485ba70fbfabc7849b31c80a39&amp;maven_referralObject=3148174">worse than I thought</a>)</p>
<p>And as for you CBC, don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re so awesome what with your <a href="http://torontoist.com/2008/10/hockey_night_in_canada_conflict_of_interest.php">conflicts of interest</a> and potentially putting your anthemical future in the hands of a 13-year-old.  (He&#8217;s <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/home">one of the two finalists</a>)<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>June 9, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/09/the-theme-that-wouldnt-die/" title="The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die">The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die</a></li>
<li>June 5, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/05/hnic-theme-song/" title="End of an anthem">End of an anthem</a></li>
<li>October 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/hockey-night-is-dead-long-live-rds/" title="Hockey Night is dead. Long live RDS">Hockey Night is dead. Long live RDS</a></li>
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		<title>New rumour: TQS to change name</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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La Presse throws this idea out about TQS maybe changing its name next year to rid itself of the brand of crappiness, especially after the humiliating ratings numbers recently.
Of course, changing a name doesn&#8217;t reduce the crappiness, especially if you&#8217;re not changing the content.
But more importantly, I&#8217;d need to photoshop a new crumbling logo to [...]]]></description>
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<p>La Presse throws this idea out about <a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/television/200810/10/01-28214-tqs-changera-t-elle-de-nom.php">TQS maybe changing its name next year</a> to rid itself of the brand of crappiness, especially after the <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/09/tqs-ratings/">humiliating ratings numbers</a> recently.</p>
<p>Of course, changing a name doesn&#8217;t reduce the crappiness, especially if you&#8217;re not changing the content.</p>
<p>But more importantly, I&#8217;d need to photoshop a new crumbling logo to make fun of them.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 9, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/09/tqs-ratings/" title="2 laits, 1 sucre, 0 spectateurs">2 laits, 1 sucre, 0 spectateurs</a></li>
<li>June 26, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/26/crtc-caves-bends-rules-for-tqs/" title="CRTC caves, bends rules for TQS">CRTC caves, bends rules for TQS</a></li>
<li>June 16, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/16/tqs-plan/" title="Sorry, TQS, no sale">Sorry, TQS, no sale</a></li>
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		<title>Pat&#8217;s back; the new RDS; Hockey special section</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/pats-back-the-new-rds-hockey-special-section/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazette Habs beat writer Pat Hickey, who disappeared for a month to get his knee replaced, is back in time for the beginning of the regular season (this is how hardcore he is - he schedules major surgery around the Canadiens&#8217; playing schedule). His first Standing Pat column back on the beat explains his recovery [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gazette Habs beat writer Pat Hickey, who disappeared for a month to get his knee replaced, is back in time for the beginning of the regular season (this is how hardcore he is - he schedules major surgery around the Canadiens&#8217; playing schedule). <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=36185354-f3b8-4060-a2de-cc02b9efd7d4">His first Standing Pat column back on the beat</a> explains his recovery process and mentions the sympathy he now feels for athletes who have to keep themselves in shape.</p>
<p>Pat also participates in <a href="http://habsinsideout.com/puckcast/2008/10/07">the first episode of the Habs Inside/Out PuckCast</a>, which returns for a third season.</p>
<p>Meanwhile on another page, Stephanie Myles (who with Dave Stubbs has been covering the Canadiens in Hickey&#8217;s absence) has <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=a48d335e-886f-4d7a-aad1-051a4379d744">a feature on the RDS guys</a>, Pierre Houde and Benoit Brunet, the latter replacing Yvon Pedneault as the play-by-play analyst. Near the end it goes into Pedneault&#8217;s dismissal:</p>
<blockquote><p>But both Houde and Brunet said they were surprised Pedneault got the axe.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know it was in RDS&#8217;s plans,&#8221; Houde said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happy and sad about our line of work, we&#8217;re all freelance workers who work together. And as Benoît has said, it&#8217;s like a hockey team. Your linemate is traded, or retires, or he becomes a free agent. You stay and work with someone new.&#8221;</p>
<p>Given the superhuman ratings during last year&#8217;s playoff run - close to 3 million viewers - Brunet also didn&#8217;t see the decision on Pedneault coming.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t expecting it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But the phone rang. I always said I&#8217;ll wait, and when they give me the sign I&#8217;ll be there. It happened this year. I was surprised.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The article also goes in depth about technical and programming changes for the new season.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Myles</span> Someone who may or may not be Myles, what with this byline strikyness, also writes <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=9cbf490a-550f-4818-8c68-f10fd39a30a0">a sidebar</a> about anglo Canadiens fans watching French broadcasts (and vice versa).</p>
<p>Finally, today is the first appearance of The Gazette&#8217;s new <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=8ea020be-3750-4d72-86af-726bacba5dfb">roughly-monthly</a> Hockey Inside/Out special section, which includes in-depth coverage of the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">advertising goldmine</span> very popular Canadiens. Eight of them will be produced over the coming centennial season.</p>
<p>The special section includes <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=1401966c-b32e-409b-8097-b05da5ef5d94">an article from Mike Boone on how the Habs Inside/Out site was born</a> (it was an idea of Editor-in-Chief Andrew Phillips), as well as the usual season-preview fare.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>April 25, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/04/25/inquirer-columns-in-gazette/" title="Gazette running columns from Philadelphia Inquirer">Gazette running columns from Philadelphia Inquirer</a></li>
<li>February 2, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/02/more-changes-at-the-gazette/" title="More changes at The Gazette">More changes at The Gazette</a></li>
<li>November 10, 2007 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/11/10/habs-insideout-redesigned/" title="Habs Inside/Out redesigned">Habs Inside/Out redesigned</a></li>
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		<title>Vultures circling as talks continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit quiet about contract negotiations at the Gazette since the strike vote, and that&#8217;s mainly because there&#8217;s nothing to report. Both sides were in talks Thursday and will return to the table Friday. People are optimistic, but the work-to-rule campaign and byline strike continue, and the guild has suggested employees bring personal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit quiet about contract negotiations at the Gazette since <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/28/gazette-strike-vote/">the strike vote</a>, and that&#8217;s mainly because there&#8217;s nothing to report. Both sides were in talks Thursday and will return to the table Friday. People are optimistic, but the work-to-rule campaign and <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/03/gazette-staff-start-byline-strike/">byline strike</a> continue, and the guild has suggested employees bring personal effects home.</p>
<p>The Montreal Newspaper Guild website has <a href="http://www.themng.org/EN/index.shtml">the latest update</a>, which also points out that talks for the 37 employees in the (non-classified) advertising department have broken off.</p>
<p>UPDATE (Oct. 10): No strike is being called for the foreseeable future. Friday&#8217;s talks had progress, though jurisdiction remains a roadblock. Conciliation talks are set for Oct. 20 and 21, and the guild says that &#8220;additional measures&#8221; are necessary to show that the union is &#8220;serious&#8221; about its demands.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, management is apparently preparing for the worst, with Canwest News Service <a href="http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/09/canwest-gets-scabby-with-it/">making inquiries of Concordia University journalism students</a> (and Gazette freelancers) who might want to work freelance for them in the event of a strike. Because they&#8217;d be working for Canwest and not The Gazette (even though Canwest owns The Gazette), they would not be breaking Quebec&#8217;s tough anti-scab laws, even if what they write is of local interest and would only appear in The Gazette.</p>
<p>Concordia&#8217;s journalism department director, Mike Gasher, has sent a letter to students cautioning them against working as freelance scabs, Macleans reports.</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/10/10/mtl-gazettestrike1010.html?ref=rss">CBC has picked up the story</a> (with requisite &#8220;CBC has learned&#8221; which implies they didn&#8217;t just read it from Macleans&#8217; blog), and <a href="http://www.j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=2876">J-Source has picked it up from CBC</a>. The CBC story includes a denial from Canwest News Service&#8217;s editor-in-chief that the inquiry has anything to do with a possible Gazette strike.</p>
<p>Thanks mostly to the CBC, <a href="http://www.newslab.ca/?p=108">other</a> <a href="http://aejmc.org/talk/?p=1767">blogs</a> are <a href="http://cancult.ca/2008/10/10/canwest-looks-to-replace-gazette-workers-with-students/">also picking up</a> the <a href="http://michsineath.com/2008/10/10/journalism-students-offered-work-in-case-of-gazette-strike/">story</a>.</p>
<h4>Journal in negotiations</h4>
<p>As if that weren&#8217;t enough, workers at the Journal de Montréal are also at the bargaining table for a new contract, mere months after their sister union at the Journal de Québec accepted a new contract that removes their four-day work week and requires journalists to perform multiple multimedia jobs.</p>
<p>Updates are on <a href="http://www.journaldujournal.ca/">the Journal du Journal website</a>. So far nothing too serious is coming out, besides low-level pressure tactics like wearing yellow lanyards.</p>
<p>Still, management at La Presse are no doubt creaming their pants multiple times over at the thought of their two main competitors both being crippled by work disruption simultaneously.</p>
<h4>Ozzy Osbourne too</h4>
<p>Just figured I&#8217;d throw this in there: the Writers Guild of America is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/media/10guild.html">telling members not to work for Freemantle Media</a>, which produces a new Ozzy Osbourne &#8220;reality&#8221; show, because they couldn&#8217;t reach a deal that would involve paying writers less in order to write less (because it&#8217;s &#8220;reality&#8221; and therefore &#8220;half-scripted&#8221;).<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 3, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/03/gazette-staff-start-byline-strike/" title="Gazette staff start byline strike">Gazette staff start byline strike</a></li>
<li>September 28, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/28/gazette-strike-vote/" title="Gazette editorial dept. votes 98% for strike mandate">Gazette editorial dept. votes 98% for strike mandate</a></li>
<li>March 1, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/03/01/local-newspaper-union-news/" title="Local newspaper union news">Local newspaper union news</a></li>
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		<title>Here Rover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Montreal-based anglo writers have put together an online magazine called Rover, which bills itself as an &#8220;independent review of the arts.&#8221; You might recognize some names if you obsess over freelance bylines in the Gazette (and we all know you do).
So far, everything is free, though the plan is to eventually support the site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://roverarts.com/contributors/">Some Montreal-based anglo writers</a> have put together an online magazine called <a href="http://roverarts.com/">Rover</a>, which bills itself as an &#8220;independent review of the arts.&#8221; You might recognize some names if you obsess over freelance bylines in the Gazette (and we all know you do).</p>
<p>So far, everything is free, though <a href="http://roverarts.com/about/">the plan</a> is to eventually support the site through advertising.</p>
<p>Considering that <a href="http://www.maisonneuve.org/">Maisonneuve magazine</a> is almost perpetually starving for cash and subsidies, don&#8217;t expect much of a financial windfall here.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>July 9, 2007 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/09/just-because-youre-famous-doesnt-mean-youre-interesting/" title="Just because you&#8217;re famous doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re interesting">Just because you&#8217;re famous doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re interesting</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Richard Therrien has the low-down on TQS&#8217;s ratings: about 10,000 for their morning show, and slightly better for their &#8220;hits.&#8221;
Which means that more people will read Therrien&#8217;s post about TQS&#8217;s ratings than watch TQS.
See also:

October 10, 2008 &#8212; New rumour: TQS to change name
June 26, 2008 &#8212; CRTC caves, bends rules for TQS
June 16, 2008 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Richard Therrien has <a href="http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/therrien/?p=236">the low-down on TQS&#8217;s ratings</a>: about 10,000 for their morning show, and slightly better for their &#8220;hits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which means that more people will read Therrien&#8217;s post about TQS&#8217;s ratings than watch TQS.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/new-rumour-tqs-to-change-names/" title="New rumour: TQS to change name">New rumour: TQS to change name</a></li>
<li>June 26, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/26/crtc-caves-bends-rules-for-tqs/" title="CRTC caves, bends rules for TQS">CRTC caves, bends rules for TQS</a></li>
<li>June 16, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/16/tqs-plan/" title="Sorry, TQS, no sale">Sorry, TQS, no sale</a></li>
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		<title>That one.</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/08/that-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, apparently I forgot during last night&#8217;s debate to be offended that John McCain used the words &#8220;that one&#8221; and pointed to Barack Obama when pointing out something about Obama&#8217;s senate record. Apparently it&#8217;s a codephrase that everyone but me knows about and is inherently racist.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry, apparently I forgot during last night&#8217;s debate to be offended that <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/10/08/that_one/index.html">John McCain used the words &#8220;that one&#8221;</a> and pointed to Barack Obama when pointing out something about Obama&#8217;s senate record. Apparently it&#8217;s a codephrase that everyone but me knows about and is inherently racist.</p>
<p>Remember all those white racists in Alabama chanting &#8220;that one&#8221; and pointing to MLK? He was clearly trying to appeal to the racist electorate.</p>
<p>Now we need to make this into <a href="http://news.google.ca/news?q=mccain+&quot;that+one&quot;">the issue of the election</a>, because it&#8217;s so much more important than those boring things like the economy, tax policy, the environment or foreign policy.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
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		<title>Regis thinks Canada is clean</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/08/regis-thinks-canada-is-clean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Regis and Kelly, for making it clear to your viewers that Canada is, like, the first mainstream country which is clean and bright and nice-looking and articulate historic.
Now we can feel good about ourselves.
See also:

June 20, 2008 &#8212; Why I love Quebec
September 20, 2007 &#8212; P-A-R-I-T-Y!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Regis and Kelly, for <a href="http://popgoesthenews.blogspot.com/2008/10/regis-and-kelly-praise-canada.html">making it clear to your viewers</a> that Canada is, like, the first mainstream country which is clean and bright and nice-looking and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">articulate</span> historic.</p>
<p>Now we can feel good about ourselves.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>June 20, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/20/why-i-love-quebec/" title="Why I love Quebec">Why I love Quebec</a></li>
<li>September 20, 2007 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/20/p-a-r-i-t-y/" title="P-A-R-I-T-Y!">P-A-R-I-T-Y!</a></li>
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		<title>Time to vote for something important</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/07/cbc-anthem-challenge-semifinal-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are now just a few hours left to vote for one of the five semifinalists in the CBC Hockey Anthem Challenge. Sadly, Hockey Scores is not one of them.
In order to help you visualize them, CBC has set the songs to video of the HNIC opening (even including the &#8220;Hello Canada and hockey fans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are now just a few hours left to vote for one of the five semifinalists in the <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/">CBC Hockey Anthem Challenge</a>. Sadly, <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/257425">Hockey Scores</a> is not one of them.</p>
<p>In order to help you visualize them, CBC has set the songs to video of the HNIC opening (even including the &#8220;Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland&#8221; voice intro). In all of them, the absence of the old theme is jarring, especially next to familiar video.</p>
<p>Here are some thoughts of mine off the top of my head for the five semifinalists. I&#8217;m not a music expert (but I know a few who will no doubt chip in), so don&#8217;t take these as gospel because I have no clue what I&#8217;m talking about.</p>
<p>(Warning: CBC forces you to watch the same stupid Bell ad before each video. Sorry.)</p>
<p><a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/gerrymosby/246136"><strong>1. Ice Warriors</strong></a> (by Gerry Mosby): A complicated melody, but without any climax. It sounds like a good part of a song, but it&#8217;s missing the rest. Even as a fan of rock music, the guitar really threw me off. It belongs in a 70s album, not on the Hockey Night theme.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/robertfraserburke/293438">2. Sticks to the Ice</a></strong> (by Robert Fraser Burke): This one builds energy, and the professional arrangement is a huge improvement over <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/rfboriginal/293438">a 13-year-old on a piano</a>. But it&#8217;s still lacking. Just when you think it&#8217;s going to hit you hard, it sulks back into a melody that doesn&#8217;t seem to go anywhere.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/grahammcrae/313543"><strong>3. Eleventh Hour</strong></a> (by Graham McRae): McRae is a skilled composer, and this one doesn&#8217;t lack for energy. He seems to really get the point. CBC&#8217;s orchestral recording of it seems a bit muted though, especially compared to <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/gmcoriginal/313543">McRae&#8217;s original</a>. The melody in this one is my favourite, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily seal the deal.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/christianstrochjimmytanaka/330387"><strong>4. Let the Game Begin</strong></a> (by Christian St. Roch &amp; Jimmy Tanaka): This contribution from two Montrealers echoes the original in a non-copyright-infringing way. Similar use of instruments. It is very successful at building energy and anticipation, and best of all it doesn&#8217;t waste any time getting there (this is, after all, a minute-long intro, not a three-minute song). It has punch, but the theme gets a bit repetitive. Still, if your goal is to find as close to the original as possible, this is probably the one for you.</p>
<p><a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/colinoberst/289271"><strong>5. Canadian Gold</strong></a> (by Colin Oberst): I like this one, not so much because I think it&#8217;s better than the rest but mainly because it&#8217;s so different. It&#8217;s the only one I think that comes out swinging after it gets going, and has that feeling of raising an army to defeat the enemy. It doesn&#8217;t sound like it&#8217;s holding anything back, and it&#8217;s not as repetitive as the others. It&#8217;s also more upbeat, almost to the point of cliché, which I think will appeal to less hard-edged hockey fans. But I could do without the bagpipes.</p>
<p>All five are works worthy of praise, and the CBC chose well. I don&#8217;t think any of them nail it 100%, but they surprise me with their quality (I had <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/07/cbc-hockey-theme-contest/">earlier suggested</a> the contest might not be worth it). The fact that there were close to 15,000 entries is kind of astonishing.</p>
<p>Voting closes at 11:59pm Tuesday. Two finalists will be announced Thursday, and then the winner will be on the Hockey Night in Canada premiere on Saturday.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/hockey-themes-are-not-games/" title="Hockey themes are not games">Hockey themes are not games</a></li>
<li>August 7, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/07/cbc-hockey-theme-contest/" title="CBC&#8217;s awful hockey theme contest">CBC&#8217;s awful hockey theme contest</a></li>
<li>June 9, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/06/09/the-theme-that-wouldnt-die/" title="The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die">The theme that wouldn&#8217;t die</a></li>
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		<title>The USA-Todaying of newspapers</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/07/the-usa-todaying-of-newspapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Tribune has become the latest newspaper to unveil a dramatic redesign, which emphasizes dramatic visual elements instead of boring words (the News Designer blog has more).
Sans-serif type, drop shadows, giant cutout clip art overlapping adjacent elements, words over photos, columnist headshots everywhere, and little one-paragraph snippets of text where there were once articles.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Chicago Tribune has become the latest newspaper to <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-tribune-redesign-htmlpage,0,7090729.htmlpage">unveil a dramatic redesign</a>, which emphasizes dramatic visual elements instead of boring words (<a href="http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/">the News Designer blog</a> has more).</p>
<p>Sans-serif type, drop shadows, giant cutout clip art overlapping adjacent elements, words over photos, columnist headshots everywhere, and little one-paragraph snippets of text where there were once articles.</p>
<p>The result makes these newspapers look much more like magazines, and conventional wisdom is that the more design-y these pages look, the more interesting they will become to readers.</p>
<p>But these new designs have two problems that you&#8217;d think would make them highly unpopular in an age of declining newspaper revenue and tightening budgets.</p>
<p>First, they take up more space, which means either more pages need to be added to the newspaper to fit the same amount of content (this isn&#8217;t happening - in fact many of these redesigns are done in order to fit a reduced page size), or dramatically cutting the amount of content that goes into the paper. Where a copy editor&#8217;s instinct is to cram as much information as possible onto the page, the designer&#8217;s is to waste as much space as possible to make it visually attractive. And it looks like the designers are winning.</p>
<p>Second, these things are complicated, which means design staff have to essentially be laying out all these pages, and in the case of sports they have to keep working late into the night. Where newspapers are shrinking budgets, this increase in staff hours will have to be offset by a drop in the number of copy editors or reporters. It makes me wonder how long these dramatic designs will stay dramatic before we start seeing cookie-cutter default designs used everywhere to save time.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love good design. I think far too few stories are told using charts, maps or illustrations, in many cases where they are desperately needed. One of my pet peeves is opinion poll stories, which include a couple of paragraphs of opinion from the pollster and then hundreds of words trying (and failing) to translate a table of numbers into prose. Whenever I can, I try to convert those back into tables, which are easier to read and easier to analyze.</p>
<p>But I look at newspapers like <a href="http://www.journalmetro.com/">Metro</a>, which has coloured boxes with numbers all over the place, tied to articles that have only a handful of sentences to them. I wonder, looking at this: At what point does substance throw in the white towel against the towering forces of style?<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>August 18, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/18/sun-sentinel-redesign/" title="Infographics infographics infographics infographics">Infographics infographics infographics infographics</a></li>
<li>July 8, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/07/08/nadal-page-design/" title="Good designers think outside the court">Good designers think outside the court</a></li>
<li>September 27, 2007 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/27/national-post-redesign/" title="National Post redesign: That&#8217;s it?">National Post redesign: That&#8217;s it?</a></li>
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		<title>Anyone listening?</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/07/cbc-radio-quebec-city-ratings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to CBC Radio One in Quebec City (104.7FM), who has cornered 0.3% of the listening audience for 12th place out of 13 stations.
Fortunately for them most of their programming is produced out of Toronto and Montreal.
See also:

September 11, 2008 &#8212; Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph archives on Google
August 17, 2008 &#8212; Quebec Geography Trivia
August 8, 2008 &#8212; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats to CBC Radio One in Quebec City (104.7FM), who has <a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/arts-et-spectacles/television-et-radio/200810/06/01-27021-bbm-cfom-profite-de-leffet-400e.php">cornered 0.3% of the listening audience</a> for 12th place out of 13 stations.</p>
<p>Fortunately for them most of their programming is produced out of Toronto and Montreal.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>September 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/11/quebec-chronicle-telegraph-archives-on-google/" title="Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph archives on Google">Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph archives on Google</a></li>
<li>August 17, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/17/quebec-geography-trivia/" title="Quebec Geography Trivia">Quebec Geography Trivia</a></li>
<li>August 8, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/08/08/mediamatinquebec-is-dead/" title="MédiaMatinQuébec is dead">MédiaMatinQuébec is dead</a></li>
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		<title>Iz tha green shitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Train wreck watch: Stéphane Dion is visiting MuchMusic tomorrow, trying to sway the youth vote (who watch MuchMusic?) with his ubercoolness.
See also:

October 11, 2008 &#8212; Journalism, politics sink together to a new low
September 8, 2008 &#8212; YASTGB: Bloc&#8217;s campaign bus sends mixed messages
October 11, 2008 &#8212; Tories win again in newspaper endorsements

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Train wreck watch: Stéphane Dion is <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2008/06/c3723.html">visiting MuchMusic tomorrow</a>, trying to sway the youth vote (who watch MuchMusic?) with his ubercoolness.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>October 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/dion-ctv-interview/" title="Journalism, politics sink together to a new low">Journalism, politics sink together to a new low</a></li>
<li>September 8, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/08/yastgb-on-the-trail/" title="YASTGB: Bloc&#8217;s campaign bus sends mixed messages">YASTGB: Bloc&#8217;s campaign bus sends mixed messages</a></li>
<li>October 11, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/11/newspaper-endorsements/" title="Tories win again in newspaper endorsements">Tories win again in newspaper endorsements</a></li>
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		<title>Sun Media begins using electronic newspapers</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/03/sun-media-begins-using-electronic-newspapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Media, which owns the Sun papers, Journal de Montréal/Québec, London Free Press, 24 heures and the Osprey chain (Kingston Whig-Standard, Sudbury Star et al), has signed a deal with NewspaperDirect to make electronic versions of the papers available to subscribers. No word on when this is going to start.
The NewspaperDirect service, which is used [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sun Media, which <a href="http://www.sunmedia.ca/SunMedia/">owns</a> the Sun papers, Journal de Montréal/Québec, London Free Press, 24 heures and the Osprey chain (Kingston Whig-Standard, Sudbury Star et al), has <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/technology/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855345">signed a deal with NewspaperDirect</a> to make electronic versions of the papers available to subscribers. No word on when this is going to start.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.newspaperdirect.com/">NewspaperDirect</a> service, which is used by the entire Canwest chain including The Gazette, produces exact copies of the paper, almost like PDFs, except with DRM so you can&#8217;t save them (at least on a Mac) and only two levels of zoon (my personal pet peeve). On the other hand, it provides some bells and whistles like having an automated reader read articles aloud.</p>
<p>With <a href="http://www.newspaperdirect.com/about/news/2008/0916.aspx">Transcontinental also working with NewspaperDirect</a> (and <a href="http://www.newspaperdirect.com/about/news/2008/0709.aspx">over 700 publications in their repertoire</a>), it&#8217;s clear that the Vancouver-based company provides a service that is either too hard or too expensive to try to duplicate.</p>
<p>I used it for about a year in order to save on recycling hassle, save the environment and save on subscription price. Though the saving on paper was fun (especially as I look around my living room now), reading the newspaper on my computer screen (and having to manipulate it with my laptop trackpad) and then watching TV and doing other stuff on my computer screen all day can put stress on the eyes, not to mention my posture.</p>
<p>Sure, I could go outside and have a life or something, but let&#8217;s be realistic&#8230;<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
<ul class="related_post">
<li>November 29, 2007 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/11/29/canoetv-clueless/" title="Canoe.tv: Clueless">Canoe.tv: Clueless</a></li>
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		<title>Gazette staff start byline strike</title>
		<link>http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/03/gazette-staff-start-byline-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, everything happens on my day off.
In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Thursday&#8217;s paper was missing names on top of articles written by Gazette reporters (and under photos by Gazette photographers). The union called for a byline strike as a pressure tactic after being frustrated by negotiations.
For those who want some background, Slate explains what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, everything happens on my day off.</p>
<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Thursday&#8217;s paper was missing names on top of articles written by Gazette reporters (and under photos by Gazette photographers). <a href="http://www.cwa-scacanada.ca/EN/news/2008/081002_mng_bylines.shtml">The union called for a byline strike</a> as a pressure tactic after being frustrated by negotiations.</p>
<p>For those who want some background, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2102593/">Slate explains what byline strikes are all about</a>. The last time Gazette staffers did this was in 2001 to protest a new national editorial policy by Canwest, one that many people have asked me about years later thinking it&#8217;s still in effect.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Bylines are also being pulled from <a href="http://habsinsideout.com/">Habs Inside/Out</a>.</p>
<p>So you all can just go ahead and assume all the articles are being written by me now. Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket.<br />
<h3>See also:</h3>
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<li>October 10, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/10/gazette-talks-canwest-scabs/" title="Vultures circling as talks continue">Vultures circling as talks continue</a></li>
<li>September 28, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/28/gazette-strike-vote/" title="Gazette editorial dept. votes 98% for strike mandate">Gazette editorial dept. votes 98% for strike mandate</a></li>
<li>September 22, 2008 &#8212; <a href="http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/22/ottawa-citizen-workers-accept-contract-deal/" title="Ottawa Citizen workers accept contract deal">Ottawa Citizen workers accept contract deal</a></li>
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		<title>Ways around duelling debates</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, seven politicians take the stage in much-awaited debates that will set the stage for the future of two countries. Five of them in Ottawa, in the English leaders&#8217; debate, and two of them in St. Louis, in the one and only U.S. vice-presidents&#8217; debate.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight, seven politicians take the stage in much-awaited debates that will set the stage for the future of two countries. Five of them in Ottawa, in the English leaders&#8217; debate, and two of them in St. Louis, in the one and only U.S. vice-presidents&#8217; debate.</p>
<p>In case you want to watch one live and another later (or you&#8217;re switching between the two and miss something), you can catch replays on TV and online. Clips from both will no doubt be on the Internet quickly as well.</p>
<p>Unlike most TV programs, the debates don&#8217;t really have any copyright or licensing concerns attached to them, so there should be no problem finding copies of them online.</p>
<p>Leaders&#8217; debate</p>
<ul>
<li>Live tonight at 9pm on CTV, CBC, Global, CBC Newsworld, RDI, CTV NewsNet and CPAC</li>
<li>CPAC replays the debate at 11pm ET and it will be available as video on demand (as they have already done with <a href="http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&amp;act=view3&amp;pagetype=vod&amp;lang=f&amp;clipID=1985">the French debate</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p>VP debate</p>
<ul>
<li>Live tonight on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News</li>
<li>CNN replays the debate at 1am ET</li>
<li>CPAC has the debate live <a href="http://www.cpac.ca/">online</a> and will replay it on TV at 9pm tomorrow</li>
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