The best articles I read last week
The Huffington Post’s Paul Dailing casts a hilarious critical gaze on the “Death of Newspapers” meme that pervades twitter and the “blogosphere” in How to Become a “Death of Newspapers” Blogger
The Toronto Star surveys the lay of the land in Canadian broadcasting after huge cuts to the CBC this week and the potential of more cuts at the private broadcasters in TV tumult on the Canadian dial
NPR and WNYC’s “On the Media” looks at the JP Neufeld, a Concordia University student in Montreal who stopped a an act of school violence before it happened, 3000 miles away in the UK: The Long Arm of the Law
The Atlantic’s The Quiet Coup is a devastating examination of the role and influence of the finance and banking sectors over the entire American political process.
Ian Brodie, Harper’s former chief of staff , asserts that evidence doesn’t matter when making public policy via Macleans.ca
The Totalitarian Temptation and all that is an examination of the tendency towards totalitarian belief systems on both the left and right. I loved it, but I care about this sort of stuff. Link to http://crookedtimber.org/ via @MikeSoron
