it is an event. The journalistic coverage has been if not lazy than perhaps complicit. Over the weekend "a" Molotov cocktail became pluralized very quickly in many reports. All entities continually refer to the "students" protesting and marching, while in reality the students are on strike but much of the rest of Quebec are on the streets. They quote tired facts about tuition costs, but are guilty in omitting from the discourse what non-residents and international students pay. The images and arguments have been ones of violence, and all too willing to ignore the moving and inspirational story of the rise of an important social movement. Their coverage has the appearance of writing from afar, written on desks in Toronto and Calgary. (Admittedly, I have written most of my op-eds from Toronto, Ottawa, and Portland, Ontario. But, as before, I'm nothing if not transparent.) The other fashion in which the mainstream media has failed is in their lack of understanding of the world as it exists in 2012. With the advent of social media, smartphones, and alternative media, the story can be told as it is, without being subjected to the filter of a biased media, whose interests are seen through a corporate lens. Fortunately, community-based media like OpenFile has picked up the slack and has been on the frontlines reporting without bias, but with passion and integrity. While like-minded alternative media has their own agenda, they are more aware of their requirement and duty to be transparent in the