Special Issue

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  Renaissance Man

  Laura Beeston – Published November 29, 2011

  Kai Nagata suggested we meet at the bar where, just one night prior, he gave a very regular patron a very fake name.

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  Weapons and Words

  Hilary Sinclair – Published November 29, 2011

  When we were kids, it wasn’t uncommon for our parents to tell us to use our words, not our fists. The idea was that physical violence was more hurtful than verbal confrontation. In Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapons in the War in Iraq, however, Concordia journalism professor Mike Gasher …

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  The Great Leveller

  Colin Harris – Published November 29, 2011

  It’s been hailed by many as the great leveller, in that a blogger with no budget has the potential to get as many viewers as the biggest broadcaster. But does the Internet really make news more democratic? There’s an enormous potential online for news equality, but the ideal can’t outrun reality.

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  The Holy Grail

  Megan Dolski – Published November 29, 2011

  Broken sentences, long pauses, rambling responses, and a slew of different answers are probably all you’ll get if you ask a bunch of journalists what they think about objectivity. While their thoughts on the subject may be initially inarticulate and rather jumbled, journalists have lots to say about the term that has been ingrained in their brains since their first days of J-school.

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  Media Democracy

  Laura Beeston & Megan Dolski – Published November 29, 2011

  When we were brainstorming ideas for this issue, one word kept coming up: access. It’s simple, really. Journalists require access to information so we can do our jobs properly. Members of the media need to access documents and sources in order to make our discoveries and analyses available to the public.

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  Misallocation of Funds Not in Students’ Interests

  Henry Gass – Published November 8, 2011

  As tuition steadily increases, both the Quebec and Canadian governments are doing little to bolster student aid programs, with private and political interests converging at the expense of mounting student debt.

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  To Strike or Not to Strike?

  Corey Pool – Published November 8, 2011

  The fight against tuition increases has finally come to a head, but a great divide still exists between students who understand the issue and those who don’t.

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  Tuition Hikes Shall Not Pass!

  Philippe Lapointe – Published November 8, 2011

  Great Britain, Chile, South Korea, the rest of Canada, and now Québec. The flood of tariffs threatens to drown every single island of knowledge accessibility to please the rising tide of knowledge merchandising.

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  Oui à l’excellence

  Francis L.-Racine – Published November 8, 2011

  La hausse des frais de scolarité n’est pas un objectif en soi. C’est plutôt un moyen pour que les institutions postsecondaires québécoises atteignent des standards d’excellence. L’enjeu essentiel reste donc de conjuguer la hausse des frais de scolarité avec le principe d’accessibilité des études postsecondaires pour tous les Québécois.

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  Tuition, Participation Linked After All

  Erin Hudson – Published November 8, 2011

  Since the end of the province-wide tuition freeze in 2007, the Quebec government has held a strong position on tuition fees, stating that students must pay more to “their fair share” towards university funding, while maintaining accessibility to universities will not be compromised as a result of the increases.