Magazine

January/February 2008: Big Media

Volume 42, Number 1

Eight huge conglomerates control the messages Canadians hear, see and read. In this issue, CD introduces the movement underway to monitor and reform Canadian media, among the most monopolized in the western world. The special section includes articles by Robert Hackett, Steve Anderson, David Skinner, Dwayne Winseck and Chris Arsenault and Nicole Cohen. Also inside: Mel Watkins on Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine; neoliberalism in Ontario; fighting in the Gaza ghetto; and our regular feature, Around the Left in 60 Days.

• Regulars

• The Horowitz Paragraph
  Gad Horowitz
• The CAW-Manga Agreement: Not the Way Forward
  Editorial
• Labour Report
  Geoff Bickerton
• Québec Communiqué
  Pierre Dostie
• One Native Life
  Richard Wagamese
• On the Edge
  Lesley Hughes

• Opening Arguments

• André Gorz (1923 -2007)
  Andrea Levy
• Hollowing Out
  Mel Watkins
• Squandered Surpluses
  Armine Yalnizyan
• Fighting in the Gaza Ghetto
  Jon Elmer
• “One Ontario” Under Neoliberalism
  Bryan Evans

• Big Media

• Why Media Reform Should be a Democratic Priority
  Robert Hackett
• Media Merger Mania
  Dwayne Winseck
• An Inside Look at The Irvings
  Chris Arsenault
• The Fight for the Open Internet
  Steve Anderson
• The Struggle for the Soul of Canadian Media
  David Skinner

• All That’s Left

• Warm Words from the Margins of Empire
  Mel Watkins
• Exposing the Corporate Media
  Nicole Cohen