Geoff Meeker (Meeker on Media) Blog

[Professional Blog]

Blog URL address : http://geoffmeeker-meeker-on-media.thetelegram.com

Articles

• Write the Good Fight
• Strong Language
• Muskrat Media-6
• What a Question
• Red Trench Redux
• Happy Numbers
• Cashin Slams Cochrane
• Look Out, Emmy Awards
• Wheat Free
• Muskrat Media-5
• Muskrat Media-4
• Muskrat Media-3
• Muskrat Media-2
• Muskrat Media-1
• Steele balls
• Westcott Soldiers On
• Confronting Abuse
• The Media Beat
• Comment Disabled
• Test Pilots
• Alliteration Conversation
• Magical Experience
• Killer Cover
• Star Waitress
• The End of Openness
• Frozen In Time
• Apology Accepted
• Rude Encounter
• Hidden Identity
• The Cat Came Back
• Ahead of Her Time
• Ashley Fayth Looks Back
• Hitting the Bullseye
• “Tabloid style”
• Goodbye, Big Tom
• Broadcast Opinions - 2
• Broadcast Opinions-1
• Tit for Tat
• Live at the Ship Inn
• Stealing From Others
• Shifting Timeline
• Cooking Up a Story
• Talking Natural Gas
• Prime Real Estate
• Flapjack Fever
• Dog Bites Anchor
• CBC Music Launched
• About Face
• Tempest in a Teapot
• Telethon Drops CBC
• Right Place, Right Time
• Remembering Suzanne Woolridge
• Dunderdale Lashes Out
• Sorry About That
• Eye of the Spin
• Beyond the Overpass
• Touching Tribute
• Online Poll Shenanigans
• OZ FM Goes Top 40
• Reardon Blog Deleted
• Reardon Hired by Liberals
• Earle Files Complaint
• Etchegary Attacks Furlong
• Musical Chairs
• Food Fight
• The Rob Ford Ambush
• A Fine Start
• Finding the Balance
• Only One Issue
• Shafted by a Poll?
• Hockeyville Hangover
• Non-issue Surfaces Again
• Running Toward The Towers
• Horrifying Scenes
• Ghent Enters Politics
• Chew the Pork Tour
• Jeff Gilhooly's Swan Song
• The EI Conundrum
• In Defence of the MRSC-3
• In Defence of the MRSC-2
• Radio Responds
• In Defence of the MRSC
• Igor Rebuttal
• Radio Wit and Wisdom
• Assessing the Response to Igor
• Nasty Allegation
• New Host Announced
• Quite An Honour
• Looking Back
• On The Mend
• Look Into The Camera
• Cochrane Goes National... Again
• Trifecta of Trouble
• Trigger Words
• Catastrophic Coverage
• Mixed Messages
• Family Ties
• Stone Age Decision
• Gerry Phelan Departs VOCM
• The Independent Is Back
• Tribute to Dave Wheeler
• Kerri Breen Laid Off
• Credible Source?
• Rob Antle Leaves Telegram
• Cochrane Goes National
• Farewell, and...
• Out of Out of the Fog
• On the Cover of the...
• Leadership Vacuum
• 'School Yard Bully'
• "The Right Kind"
• Getting the Scoop
• Orgy of Self Promotion
• Volunteer Fired
• That Stupid Email
• Craig Westcott Responds
• Interesting days ahead
• Westcott Joins Liberals
• Outrageous
• CBC Wins, Hands Down
• Bite Your Tongue
• Arrival and Departure
• The Goodyear Case
• Daybreak With A Gun
• Cranky Again
• Another Glitch
• Change at The Telegram
• Lottery Shenanigans
• Cleary Is Back
• Ramble On
• Is Dunderdale Stupid?
• When the Call Comes In
• One Sided Story
• Some Tough Questions
• Gold Tabbie
• Fair and Balanced
• Defending
  Upper Canada
• Double Standard?
• Brick Oven
• All Spin, No Traction
• Award Finalists
• Beyond the Pale
• Grace Under Pressure
• What Was Expropriated?
• Inappropriate App
• Bizarre Star
• Williams Alleges Bias
• "Are You There, Bill?"
• Letter to a Reader
• Letter to the Premier
• The Régie Decision
• Christina Checks In
• Vocus buys HARO
• Fox News for Canada?
• Weekly Photo Feature
• The Heart of the Issue - 7
• Yabba Dabba
  No More
• The Heart of the Issue - 6
• The Heart of the Issue - 5
• The Heart of the Issue - 4
• The Heart of the Issue 3
• The Heart of the Issue - 1
• The Heart of the Issue - 2
• The Big Interview Part 1
• Pit Stop
• CBC Radio Switches Off
• Offer Declined
• Your Daily Fibre
• Another Boycott of CBC
• Critical Barbs - 2
• The Big Interview Part 2
• CBC Silenced
• "Extremely Pleased"
• Critical Barbs - 1
• Wither Land and Sea?
• Growth Trend
• Adding Some Balance
• Victim Impact
• Falling From Grace
• Crossing Borders
• Republic of Hawco
• Sad Anniversary
• Advertorial Blues-2
• Advertorial Blues-3
• Advertorial Blues
• Who To Believe?
• Dream Genie
• Trashing The Muse
• Krysta Leaves CBC
• 'Local IS Good'
• Wunnerful Grand
• The Plot Sickens
• Sick Of It
• Nasty Charges
• For The Record
• All Elbows
• Westcott Needles In
• Struck Down
• Paddy Daly Talks
• How Cool Is That?
• Names, Please
• Paddy Daly
  Off the Air
• To The Rescue
• Layoffs In Grand Falls-Windsor
• Clutching at Straws
• Prurient Choice?
• Oram's Odd Departure
• New Shows,
  New Time
• Winners and Losers-2
• Winners and Losers
• Classic Rock Talk
• Red Skies
• Power Snapped Up
• Advertising Exploits
• Why Cleary Left
• Independent
  Rises Again
• Copying Stories?
• On Vacation
• A Submarine?
• What a Mess
• It's Official
• Live Revisited
• Major Rewrite
• An Easy Target
• Apology of the Year
• Walsh Leaving Telegram
• Committee
  Finally Relents
• Rock and Talk
• PNC on Line Three
• PNC on Line Three (2)
• Health Scares
• Empty Defence
• A Seat at the Table
• In Poor Taste
• Hey Kevin Kelly!
• 9 Goes Missing
• Band-Aid Solution
• Juiced!
• Travel Trivia
• Vantage Point
• Pit Stop
• Here & Now Wins Big
• Trash Talk
• Google in St. John's
• Google Seeks Correction
• Accused, Not Charged
• CBC Cuts Explained
• Short Cuts
• Blowing the Whistle
• Sign Your Name
• Lessons From History
• The Issue of Anonymity
• Living in a Fog
• Manic Media
• No Paper Trail
• Danny Goes Ballistic
• No Mercy
• Speak No Evil
• A Father's Influence
• News Held Captive
• Howie Meeker
  Weighs In - Part 1
• Howie Meeker
  Weighs In Part 2
• Something Like Normal
• Shamrock Silliness
• Best In Class
• Musings on Defeat
• Breen Again
• Crazy Like a Fox?
• Great Big Media
• Wheeling and Dealing
• Pot Attacks Kettle
• Media Meltdown
• Too Much Manipulation
• Forecast
  Looking Good
• Yesterday's News
• Where's The Logic?
• Bleacher Feature
• Paper Death II
• Paper Death III
• 1270 New Songs
• A Pretty Sight
• Gosine Goes Ballistic
• Inflated Popularity
• The Cost of Celebrity-2
• The Cost of Celebrity-1
• The Cost of Celebrity-3
• The Cost of Celebrity-4
• The Cost of Celebrity-5
• Cuts at Telegram
• Guest Commentary
• Wangersky Reassigned
• Glad You Asked
• The Cost of Celebrity-6
• Portrait of a Traitor
• Changed... Not Changing
• Gideon's Last Christmas
• Done With Dignity
• Radio News
• Swain Staying
• Ban Drive-Throughs
• Here & Now Rebounds
• Steady As She Goes
• Paper Death?
• Furlong Defends Self
• Qatar Redux
• Clark Replacing Duffy
• Walsh vs. Locke
• Nuggets of Memory
• New Role at Eastern Health
• Down on the Nurses?
• McBreairty's Story
• Wangersky Wins Big
• A Dream Come True
• Seismic Shift
• Sent in Error
• Media
  Contest
  Winners
• Yanked From Slumber
• Where There's A Will
• Impostor!
• Once in a Lifetime
• Chicken Littleitis
• Remembering Ted Patey
• Political Skullduggery
• Gone For Good?
• Remembering
  Ted Patey-2
• Stickhandling into History
• Touch Yourself
• Acts of God and Other B.S.
• Idol Idled
• Radio Spam
• Don't Walk Alone
• Craig Jackson Talks
• More Intolerance
• Photo Feature: Gros Morne
• Ephibiphobia
• Enough Traitor Talk
• Don't Sell!
• Dion's Do-over
• Like It Is
• Call for Entries...
• Westcott Weighs In
• Surviving the Fires of 61
• A Reminder
• Mending Language
• Voice in the Wilderness
• Technical Issues
• But We Hardly
  Knew Ya!
• Moments of Absurdity
• A Pledge to Remember
• No Slant
• A Bungled Process
• Getting Interesting
• Ellsworth Steps Up
• Middle Cove Rogues
• ABC Well Underway
• No Goal
• Party Pitfalls
• Who's Polling ABC?
• Westcott Running in St. John's East
• Guest Commentary
• Callahan's View
• Eating Words
• Bittersweet Epiphany
• Sunday Telegram axed
• Cleary Cocks Leg Part 1
• Cleary Cocks Leg Part 2
• Back soon!
• Mary Power Profiled
• A Sense of Mission
• Independent in Trouble
• Good Blogkeeping
• Rogers vs. Bell
• 'Godspeed Ryan Cleary'
• Rally Behind the Party
• On Poaching
• Headline Hijinks
• Crisis of Conscience
• The Winner Is...
• Tale of a Whale
• Goudie on the Move
• Change at the Top
• Trailer Park Hooligans
• Independent folds
• From Criticism to Bullying
• Ouch!
• Westcott Weighs In
• PR Directors Beware
• Slippery Rabbit Stew
• Vacation Time
• The Story Evolves
• Stop the Presses
• Guilty as Discharged
• Change in the Weather
• Surprise Bonus
• Provocative Questions
• Calmer Heads
• Tribute to Jon Lien
• Externally Driven
• Sobering Thought
• Boiling Over
• 'Nobody writes for free'
• Working for Cheap
• Suitcase Killer?
• Point of Disclosure
• Connect the Dots
• The Clincher
• Response to Welsh
• Free Connectivity
• Stephen Marshall responds
• AJA Finalists
• Three Quickees
• The Bond Papers Hiatus
• Fact vs Fiction
• Adventures in Marketing
• An Inquisitive Inquiry
• Let's Play
• Game Over!
• Free the Vote!
• What Westcott Said
• Coke 'classic'
• Premier 'cuts off' Cochrane
• Follow-up on Cochrane
• Business as Usual
• Tsunami Warning - Part 1
• Tsunami Warning Part 2
• Calling Paul Watson
• Biting Back
• Intro to Blogging
• Good to Go
• Remove the Gag-1
• Remove the Gag-2
• Middle East Meets West
• Photo Feature: Early Days
• Gas and Heartburn
• Guitars Gently Weep
• Mystery Aircraft
• Brush with Death
• Media Self-censorship
• Jamie Baker moving on
• The Migration to PR
• Stay on Course
• Anatomy of an Error
• Photo Feature: Spring Gleaming
• On Top of Their Game
• Migration to PR-part 2
• Letter from a Reader
• May Steps Down
• Farewell, Jack
• Year in Review - Part 2
• Randy Simms reacts
• Blast from the past
• 'First pack of lies'
• We forgive you Tom... or not!
• Media Watchers
• Wearing thin
• Remembering Michelle Jackson
• Allegations vs. news
• Her CUP runneth over
• Book's fate sealed
• Privacy vs. the right to know
• National Award Winners
• Farewell, Michelle
• Final Curtain
• Randy Simms moves to Telegram
• Getting the Scoop, Part 1
• Getting the Scoop, Part 2
• Surviving 'Live'
• Qatar Kerfuffle
• No Signal?
• Suppressing free speech
• 'Give me a polygraph'
• Photo Feature: Illustration
• Verbiski survives crash
• CBC follows story
• Thriving on 'live'
• Vote fixing
• Stopping to pee?
• Tip of the iceberg?
• Yay, Christina!
• Photo Feature: FPSO arrival
• Email Trail
• Danny's thin skin
• Shakeup at CBC
• Year in Review - Part 1
• Hero or pariah?
• Tidbits & Briefs
• The big debate
• Situation critical
• Deafening silence
• Anonymous calls
• Camping out
• Photo Feature: Mike Zagorski
• Dear Danny
• Anonymous calls, part 2
• Policy or process?
• Letter to Bill
• Photo Feature: Lucy Maud's place
• Stacking the lines
• An operative speaks
• The Yak scam
• Stacking the Lines, part 2
• Stacking the lines, part 3
• Weekly Photo Feature #5
• Failure to disclose
• Generous with our cash
• Spidercam
• New host for Radio Noon
• Vacation downtime
• Giddy Up!
• NTV gets the scoop
• Response to Cleary
• No letter, no reply
• Charges dropped
• John O'Mara signs off
• Radio Gaga
• Flashback
• Photo Feature: Peter Bell
• Photo Feature: Rock On
• Memories of the Twin Towers
• Back to school
• Reel nice note
• Pride and Passion
• Definately no complements
• Tony Blair on media
• Two solitudes
• CSI Toronto?
• Coincidence?
• Pinch me I'm working
• Theft or inspiration?
• Weekly Photo Feature #3
• Winds of Change
• Flanagan returns
• Corey and Trina
• TV, radio come calling
• Ken & Barbie on Here & Now
• Drive-through blues
• Dormant no more
• Weekly Photo Feature #4
• No Thanks
• A Job Well Done
• Krysta replaces Karl
• Sexual assault email
• Complete list of archived posts
• Current revisited: has it improved?
• Another radio voice is silenced
• Not afraid to shake hands with the devil
• An important voice of dissent
• A photo 10,000 years in the making
• Taking issue with headlines
• Weekly Photo Feature