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On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, way back in 2003, the National Post put together a series of front pages, wondering what they would have looked if we’d been around in previous ages. They’d been long forgotten until a dusty poster turned up under a reporter’s desk and now revived here. (Pages by Rob Mckenzie and Kagan McLeod)
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On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, way back in 2003, the National Post put together a series of front pages, wondering what they would have looked if we’d been around in previous ages. They’d been long forgotten until a dusty poster turned up under a reporter’s desk and now revived here. (Pages by Rob Mckenzie and Kagan McLeod)
Previous: Medieval Post
Previous: Imperial Post
Previous: Prehistoric Post
On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, way back in 2003, the National Post put together a series of front pages, wondering what they would have looked if we’d been around in previous ages. They’d been long forgotten until a dusty poster turned up under a reporter’s desk and now revived here. (Pages by Rob Mckenzie and Kagan McLeod)
Previous: Imperial Post
Previous: Prehistoric Post
On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, way back in 2003, the National Post put together a series of front pages, wondering what they would have looked if we’d been around in previous ages. They’d been long forgotten until a dusty poster turned up under a reporter’s desk and now revived here. (Pages by Rob Mckenzie and Kagan McLeod)
Previous: Prehistoric Post
On the occasion of our fifth anniversary, way back in 2003, the National Post put together a series of front pages, wondering what they would have looked if we’d been around in previous ages. They’d been long forgotten until a dusty poster turned up under a reporter’s desk and now revived here. (Pages by Rob Mckenzie and Kagan McLeod)
![Is the Internet killing the shared cultural experience?When Theresa Moritz, a senior lecturer in English at the University of Toronto, asked a class of 22 first-year undergraduate students to watch for references to Jane Austen in their day-to-day diet of culture and entertainment, she expected the references would come flooding in.Being herself immersed in a world of books, newspapers and television shows that made frequent mention of the 19th-century English novelist, Dr. Moritz thought her students in a class about Austen’s Pride and Prejudice would experience the same. But in a presentation to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this week, she said that instead of making the students aware of the ubiquity of Jane Austen, the exercise showed that living with the Internet as the centre of one’s cultural life puts one in a different universe from those who focus on more traditional media.“I would have expected that they would have frequently reported to me references to [Austen]. I was expecting, moreover, that that experience would connect us, professor and students, in a shared awareness of interest in Jane Austen,” Dr. Moritz said in an interview Friday.Instead, the 62-year-old instructor discovered that her world of print is a world apart from the digital lives of her students, prompting questions about the general knowledge and shared cultural experiences of young people raised in the age of Wikipedia.“I was finding things regularly, at least once a week,” Dr. Moritz said. “And I found that rarely was there even one reference reported by a student.” The lack of print newspapers in their lives was an important factor in the contrast, she said.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmdlbrSILs1qze0z6o1_1280.jpg)
Is the Internet killing the shared cultural experience?
When Theresa Moritz, a senior lecturer in English at the University of Toronto, asked a class of 22 first-year undergraduate students to watch for references to Jane Austen in their day-to-day diet of culture and entertainment, she expected the references would come flooding in.
Being herself immersed in a world of books, newspapers and television shows that made frequent mention of the 19th-century English novelist, Dr. Moritz thought her students in a class about Austen’s Pride and Prejudice would experience the same. But in a presentation to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this week, she said that instead of making the students aware of the ubiquity of Jane Austen, the exercise showed that living with the Internet as the centre of one’s cultural life puts one in a different universe from those who focus on more traditional media.
“I would have expected that they would have frequently reported to me references to [Austen]. I was expecting, moreover, that that experience would connect us, professor and students, in a shared awareness of interest in Jane Austen,” Dr. Moritz said in an interview Friday.
Instead, the 62-year-old instructor discovered that her world of print is a world apart from the digital lives of her students, prompting questions about the general knowledge and shared cultural experiences of young people raised in the age of Wikipedia.
“I was finding things regularly, at least once a week,” Dr. Moritz said. “And I found that rarely was there even one reference reported by a student.” The lack of print newspapers in their lives was an important factor in the contrast, she said.
37 Days: Postdated pledges — Don’t try this at home
Scott Stinson notes that a promise to do something four or five years from now, such as Stephen Harper has done with income splitting, is way down on the credibility scale
Ignatieff vows to re-examine fighter plane deal
Analysis: Military experts say a ‘fly-off’ is pointless as there is no alternative that would suit the Canadian Forces’ needs.
Western riddle still baffles Liberals
Kevin Libin: The very best showing the Liberals were able to pull off in the last election was a 22-point loss in Edmonton–Centre
Tasha Kheiriddin: Harper’s Canada doesn’t include Quebec
2½-year-old pummels Stephen Harper
Ex-adviser says Harper had coalition plan in 2004
John Ivison: Liberals setting themselves apart from Tories
Pressing Questions: Advice to the Media for Handling Rob Ford
There are grumblings in the City Hall press gallery about Mayor Ford’s communication. We asked our star advicist, Steve Murray, to help his fellow members of the media.
1. Dear Steve,
Me and the boys were given priority seating by the Mayor and now everyone else in the press gallery is bitching. We can’t help it that we’re awesome. Can you recommend some noise cancelling headphones to drown out the uproar?
Nobody pouts and moans quite like a jealous journalist, so I feel your pain. Fortunately for us, no one accepts free gifts quite like a journalist, either!
More violence in Egypt protests
Gunmen fired on anti-government protesters in Cairo, where fighting killed six and wounded over 800 and prompted new calls on Thursday from Western powers for President Hosni Mubarak to start handing over power immediately.
Jonathan Kay: Israel and Egypt have more in common than ever
The modern nation of Israel is only 63 years old. But the relationship between Israelites and Egyptians goes back more than three millennia — surely one of the most venerable bilateral relationships known to humankind. To this day, the defining narrative of Jewish historical identity — the Exodus, retold every year at the Passover Seder — takes place in Egypt.
Canadian camera crew among journalists attacked in Egypt
Pro-government demonstrators in Cairo attacked a Canadian camera crew on Wednesday during mass protests seeking to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, injuring a cameraman, according to Radio-Canada.
‘We strongly urge all Canadians to leave Egypt’: Cannon
Any Canadians remaining in Egypt should leave as soon as possible, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said in a statement issued Thursday as the North African country geared for a tenth consecutive day of increasingly violent protests.
Graphic: Egyptian protests turn bloody
At least three people died and more than a 1,000 were injured as Cairo’s Tahrir Square exploded in clashes between anti-Mubarak protesters and government supporters.
Goodspeed Analysis: Only the Egyptian army has power to restore stability
We may be witnessing the final days of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 years in power, but it isn’t the end of six decades of military control in Egypt. The only actors with the power, prestige and experience to temporarily resolve the crisis are the country’s armed forces.
Photo: (above) A supporter of President Hosni Mubarak tries to get to opposition lines near Tahrir Square in Cairo, February 3, 2011. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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…and now, the rhetoric.
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Julian Assange was released on bail on Thursday. See all of Gary Clement’s cartoons.
