Mediabeat stream 090820

9:04:36 AM: North York General Hospital, the only one where I ever had a stay, unveil better patient menu at media event today: http://bit.ly/F3egd

9:06:09 AM: beleaguered Toronto ‘blog network’ b5media starts restructuring by looking for buyer for business sites: http://bit.ly/eF7TR

9:07:47 AM: does web journalism need old-school newspaper muscle to succeed? David Olive of the ‘Toronto Star’ thinks so, still: http://bit.ly/12zr3j

9:09:15 AM: ‘The Basterd Issue’: Toronto’s ‘Eye Weekly’ dedicates most of its editorial to Quentin Tarantino as a sponsor tie-in: http://bit.ly/KXVgS

9:12:56 AM: ‘Peter Gzowski’s Book About This Country in the Morning’: a 1974 flashback via The Tea Makers: http://bit.ly/MLgGX

9:25:48 AM: ‘National Post’, natch: ‘Toronto economy in deep slump, city report shows: ‘Really scary’’: http://bit.ly/Smxnv

10:36:39 AM: is this thing still on? or did it ever go away since ‘89? ‘Ryerson University fighting impact of recession on students’: http://bit.ly/9G1FK

11:06:40 AM: Toronto International Film Festival unleashes its official celebrity stalk list: http://bit.ly/10aM1d

11:09:56 AM: RT @geoperdis http://twitpic.com/elbli - State of the Alt, Act Three: The End. R.I.P

12:56:07 PM: online petitions, the next best thing to online polls: ‘Canadians Pine For CRTC’s Destruction’: http://bit.ly/3f5xR2