Category: in the news
That ad series I love, forgot the company
| December 15, 2009 | Posted by caroline under in the news, internet, media |
Comparing my response to the Ally Bank commercials to the AdWeek response regarding the same series of commercials.
Deconstructing: Globe and Mail article on the TIFF boycott
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, in the news |
As taken from the Globe and Mail: Signing protest letter was rash, Fonda says I deconstruct the writing in an article from the Globe and Mail regarding the Toronto Declaration, the Toronto International Film Festival and the role of the Brand Israel campaign in TIFF 2009 My remarks are in italics. Please note the bold…
Canadian Internships, new grads from journalism get exploited
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news |
Some months back, my journalist friends and I noticed a trend with “internships.” It was at the height of recession fear-mongering. Media agencies were dealing with their own financial reaction to the economy alongside the shift from traditional journalism to the web, desperately scrounging for revenue through new sources. So everyone was getting laid off.…
Canadian Immigration Minister: Jason Kenney’s flawed plans and threats
| March 24, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, on identity, Uncategorized |
Kenney is promoting, if anything, the disappearance of diversity and 2nd generation identity in regards to ethnic roots/language. What’s next, are we resurrecting residential schools?
concerts i’ve attended in Toronto, Montreal and other places
| November 22, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, in the news, myself, Uncategorized |
Listing the concerts I’ve attended..I can’t offer a synopsis or recollections of all, as some have faded..but I can note the ones that stood out most. Those with stars beside them mean I have something to say for that event. So stay tuned! Alanis Morrissette (1996, Toronto) w. OLP ~at the tender age of 11,…
older than america
| November 21, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, ethics, in the news, on identity, Uncategorized |
I have been in Winnipeg for the past few days, and finally had the chance to watch a movie from the Aboriginal Film Festival that opened here on the 19th of this month. With the booming native population in Canada, and Manitoba in particular, I thought this would be the ideal environment in which to…
Attention Span and Web Advertisements
| October 28, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, Uncategorized |
While reading a Forbes article (via CBC) on attention span and 10 things that erode our attentive abilities, I found myself bombarded by advertisements that would not even let me read the whole article! Talk about oxymorons!: http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/15/short-attention-span-forbeslife-cx_avd_1015health_slide_4.html?thisSpeed=15000 It’s only been in the past few weeks that I’ve really come face to face with these…
Online Marketing in Blogs
| September 23, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, technology, theories, Uncategorized |
As one of my web entrepreneur friends put it, in terms of whether the public can weed through the garbage online and figure out where the truth lies, “Generally speaking there is a 80 to 20 ratio on the Internet. 20% are intelligent and the 80% are computer illiterate. Thus they are idiots and will…
The Performance: Brecht, Montreal, Theatre and The Protest
| May 28, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, ethics, in the news, on identity, theories, Uncategorized |
Due to a lack of time and perhaps valuable inspiration, I am posting this essay I wrote last year that I found while crying poverty…tee hee — Four years ago, in 2003, one could enter Concordia University’s pub, Reggie’s, and be greeted by a barrage of cigarette smoke, wafts of beer-laced breath, and colourful political…
Swiss Minister faux pas– the “oppressive” veil
| March 20, 2008 | Posted by caroline under in the news, on identity |
Why are people so quick to refer to the veil as oppressive? Why can’t the Swiss foreign minister wear a veil when attending a meeting in Iran? Sure, she disturbed a lot of Iranian feminists…but not all women who wear the veil are ‘submissive’ or forced to wear it. I wouldn’t have thought all feminists…
