Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge
…union chief Maureen Dawson explained that “Journalism is a collaborative effort, the product of a team of reporters, photographers and editors working in concert to produce the kind of activist agenda that has served Star readers and our community so well for so long…To remove a critical element of that work is to shortchange everyone who depends on it.”
Activist agenda? I think it is interesting that the Star‘s readers point to Fox and claim it isn’t really news.
I thought journalism was “the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.” I guess the Star goes for the third definition instead.
writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition, conceived of as exemplifying topical newspaper or popular magazine writing as distinguished from scholarly writing: He calls himself a historian, but his books are mere journalism.
If you read the history of the Toronto Star, you’ll find the journalistic activism is part of their “mandate” since the turn of the 20th century as articulated in Joe Atkinson’s principles… although I hesitate to use the word ‘principles’ for such dogma.
http://www.thestar.com/aboutus/history
-Mac
Activist agenda = code for socialist agenda. ‘Has served Star readers and our community so well for so long’ = dumb average slob, do what you are told and let the socialists go up the middle and grab the cash and the power. This is more honesty then I have ever read from anybody connected to the RED Star in my life and oh so telling.
Everyone forgets that prior to WW2 Toronto was an insular Orange community that demonized Papists and other inferiors. The Toronto Star championed the ostracised in those days. They are to be commended for that effort especially because they subsequently became the leading newspaper in Toronto. They continue to be the leading newspaper in Toronto but mainly by a long ago heritage that is no longer relevant. In the old days the newspaper supported Catholics and Irishmen. Strangely today they demonize Catholocism but extol Jihadi Islamists.