I have a friend with whom it has become customary, after sharing an occasional dinner, to then share a movie. Regularly this is a DVD of a film we’ve never heard of, and almost as regularly at its end we will turn to each other and say, “Well. Wasn’t that an odd little flick?”
This is not to be confused with “My…
Joan Barfoot
Joan Barfoot’s eleventh novel, Exit Lines, was published in 2008 by Knopf Canada. Previous novels have been nominated for the Man Booker and Scotiabank Giller prizes.
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Lighting and Lightening a Country
How television changed a rigidly closed nation forever November 2005
There are excellent reasons why the first stops of sensible revolutionaries en route to seizing a country are that country’s media, and why any successful dictatorship goes to terrible lengths to control them.
Food, choice and safety may vanish, but the airwaves, ever since they opened for business, have been prime real estate for wars of…