Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch saw the foundations of his News Corp empire shaken to the core this year. British tabloid News of the World was found to have been hacking the voicemails of celebrities, royals and even kidnapping victims and relatives of dead soldiers. The practice went on for over a decade. Private investigators were hired by the paper to dig up dirt.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad denies responsibility for the bloody crackdown on protesters in his country. He passed the blame for the violence onto thugs and religious extremists. Protecting the public was his sole motivation according to an interview with ABC reporter Barbara Walters.
Syria has been wracked with violence for the past eight months. Countless reports of torture,...
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We in the mass media love giving shorthands. One percenter. 99 percenter. These particular terms highlight the split between the owners and the owned. The selfish and the selfless.
But an organization at Concordia’s John Molson School of Business is proving that there doesn’t have to be a division at all. Reporter Shaun Malley found out more.
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Canada’s postal workers are once again fighting for their rights. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is taking the Harper government to court over controversial back-to-work legislation that snuffed out a series of strikes in June.
Union president Denis Lemelin calls the federal government’s actions unjust. He says the union’s legal action is necessary in order to protect workers' rights to free collective bargaining.
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