‘Hockey Night in Canada,’ a Saturday Night Ritual on the CBC, Is No More nytimes.com/2026/06/16/world…

Trust in news hits a new low, research suggests bbc.in/4uFL0Zz

Worldwide, people in all age groups are ditching news sites and publishers’ apps in favor of social media and video networks. ...and other findings from @risj_oxford's Digital News Report 2026 niemanlab.org/2026/06/news-s…

New: Researchers quantify how easy AI search is to manipulate. 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" 404media.co/it-is-trivially-…

"Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless." nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…

The “Shark Tank” panelist has criticized his detractors on TV and social media as tools of Beijing. Some locals in Utah say the tactic is backfiring. on.wsj.com/4eieAiZ

Narcissists spend years building a good reputation because a strong public image makes their private behavior harder to question.

China’s influence grows in Western-led financial institutions while Western taxpayers help finance Chinese-led institutions that lend billions back to China. "The central tension: China is the world's second-largest economy, holds $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, and has built its own rival lending infrastructure through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Yet it [China] continues to borrow billions from Western-led development banks..." Meanwhile, it is noteworthy that AIIB lending to China totals $4.8 billion across 24 projects. There’s also a proposed pipeline of $3.7 billion across 14 projects. That’s $8.5 billion for China financed by bank members including capital contributed by the taxpayers of Western countries like Australia, Britain and Germany. If China can afford to finance one of the world’s biggest military buildups in peacetime, it can afford to finance its own development projects. There is no sensible case for Western taxpayers to subsidize a country with $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves that is simultaneously expanding its military capabilities and financing infrastructure around the globe through its own institutions. Indeed, there is something fundamentally backwards about asking Western countries to strengthen the economic capacity of a systemic rival country while poorer nations compete for the same limited pool of development capital. The purpose of development finance is to reduce poverty and support countries that genuinely need assistance, not to subsidize the continued rise of a geopolitical rival with ample resources to finance itself. legis1.com/news/china-financ… @CongressUpdate

Why authentic leadership communication matters in an age of skepticism "Authenticity does not mean leaders must share every private thought or speak carelessly. Rather, authenticity in leadership communication requires humility, honesty, consistency and clarity. People will follow leaders who sound human rather than scripted. We want transparency rather than carefully managed ambiguity." "Ironically, many organizations respond to public skepticism by becoming even more guarded in their communication. Statements are polished repeatedly until they lose warmth, conviction and humanity. Leaders far too often fear saying the wrong thing, so they often say very little of substance at all." springfieldnewssun.com/local…

This embarrassing KPMG AI hallucination fiasco won’t be the last of its kind. These blunders seem to be happening almost every day now. To avoid AI PR disasters, corporate communications departments should ensure that every piece of content – especially content created by LLMs – is reviewed by a human before it goes out into the public domain. AI doesn’t eliminate the need for human judgment; when it comes to editing and final approvals, it actually increases it. The organizations that understand this will use AI to their advantage. The ones that don’t will keep learning this lesson the hard way in the news headlines.

This video is quite a communication.

CBS News to hire Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as global correspondent British journalist to become one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss theguardian.com/media/2026/j…

First the web got flooded machines writing for humans. Now the machines are writing for machines. Welcome to the era of ~sloptimization.~ My latest for @TheAtlantic:

Considering one’s position and resigning on principle is far more common in the United Kingdom than in the United States, where hanging on at all costs seems more typical. Canada is probably somewhere in between.

As someone who grew up in Western New York on the border with Ontario, it was my pleasure to welcome Ontario Premier Doug Ford @fordnation to The Situation Room this week. I love Canada.

I used to do PR for pharmaceutical companies. Our team meetings were like this: youtube.com/watch?v=1OLTvxzH…

“All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.” – Harry S. Truman (1947)