Media madness

As many readers who have been following the news these past weeks will know, a group of New Brunswick university faculty from UNBF, STU, and MtA recently issued a news release in which they announced a boycott of the Telegraph-Journal because of the firing of student intern Matt McCann. The timing, though obviously fortuitous, makes a clear link between that event and the subsequent “Wafergate.” Indeed, other media outlets have not been slow to link the two events.

The impetus for some journalistic soul-searching, Wafergate has now officially gone international. Though after viewing this, this, and this (thanks to Contrarian and A BCer in Toronto for the links), one wag of this writer’s acquaintance toyed with the idea of starting a “Reinstate Jamie Irving” Facebook group.