31 Jul 2004 @ 23:41, by Robert Oveson
I've changed the title of my newslog to better represent where I get most of my information from. I won't be covering everything that happens in Vancouver, not by a long shot, there is simply too much that happens in this city. But most of the stuff that I land up writing about comes to my attention because I am in Vancouver.
A big part of living in Vancouver is that it also means living in Canada, and I've found that our news is less like propaganda compared to the US. Most of my news comes to me through the CBC Radio which is commerical free and a nice mixture between investigative journalism and the arts and culture.
The city also has a number of free newspapers and magazines that get a lot of readership because they hang around for a week (a month in some cases) in coffee shops, bus stops, laundermats and other public places. The list below is a small sample seeing as how every journalism school and university has an edition and there are lots of free lancers as well. The weeklies that I usually checkout are:
The Georgia Straight Over thirty years ago this was our underground newspaper but now it is mainly entertainment but with a few good stories every week.
Westender Is not really a gay newspaper but there are just so many gay's in the WestEnd that they have a strong influence. My favorites are 'Evil Brain', Curious Times, and the letters sections.
The Vancouver Courier A weekly newspaper that gives good coverage of local issues, possibly even better than the dailies.
Terminal City Music and politics of the younger generations, and major boomer bashers.
There are a couple of monthly glossies about spirituality which also cover the liberal left political spectrum.
Common Ground
Shared Vision
Then there is the culture in general and the huge mass of creative people that have moved here. Vancouver is an international city, less than half the population was born in Canada, most immigrants come from Hong Kong and the middle east, and the latter in particular sponsor regular speakers on political issues. Public lectures are a big part of the Vancouver information scene, and information in general is a large part of the scene.
Oh, and I don't own a TV and very rarely visit anyplace that does have one so that kind of influences my perception as well.
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