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.
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Regulars
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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
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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
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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
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Warm Words from the Margins of Empire
Mel Watkins -
Exposing the Corporate Media
Nicole Cohen




