media law

Bah, humbug to Tarek Fatah

December 15, 2008 12:28

Ihsaan Gardee, The Calgary Herald December 14, 2008 Reproduced with the permission of the author While Canadians hunker down for the festive season, bombarded by incessant shopping jingles and reruns of A Christmas Carol, many are also simply trying to weather the economic storm which is now...

A Miller Update

December 04, 2008 04:52

An update from a previous post. John  Miller, a journalism professor, has a new reply for Mark Steyn.  He challenges his characterization of quotes (a mistranslation of a mistranslation of an unverified quote), and asks these questions, What responsibility do you have as a writer to avoid i...

A clarification of questions : an unabridged translation of Resaleh towzih al-masael

December 03, 2008 09:54

Or, why academia matters. Here is what Azim Nanjim, who was with Oklahoma State University at the time before moving to the University of Florida, says in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Except for a scholarly Foreword by Michael Fischer and Mehdi Abedi, which sets the work in...

John Miller’s Open Letter to Mark Steyn

November 23, 2008 06:08

John  Miller, a journalism professor at Ryerson University, posted a series of open letters on the Maclean’s controversy.  His most recent one, Open letter to Steyn, documents plagarism and gross errors of fact. See also his previous posts: Steyn: I beg to differ Freedom or hate? Journalism h...

A New Media Defence

November 12, 2008 03:20

Canadian journalists may just breathe a little easier now. A November 2007 major ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal broke new ground in the area of defamation law when it comes to the news media in Canada. In essence, the Ontario court decision in Cusson v. Ottawa Citizen gives the media...