Jean-Claude Labrecque

Folks: on Oct. 29 I’m going to be addressing students at the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, at York University. I’ll be speaking in general about the quality of political reporting in this country. I’ll be saying, in general, that when politicians complain about political journalism, they sometimes have a point and sometimes not. And to the extent they have a point — that the depth, seriousness, level of understanding that reporters bring to bear isn’t up to what you might hope — I’ll be pointing out that there are broad, systemic reasons that explain some of this. Collapsing newsroom budgets, shrinking staffs, exploding newsholes and so on.