Canada’s newspaper publishers call for a new regulatory regime to
safeguard trusted journalism, according to the
That's right the very same Newspapers that accepted the government's bribe of over $600 million of hard earned taxpayer dollars are now crying the blues over what they claim is an unfair advantage over their ability to publish fake news.
Our so-called free press and journalism has diminished to little more than a propaganda machine for the regime of the day!
People are turning to internet programs to get their information and to communicate with each other. Internet information including up-to-date and real time imagery has proven to be just as reliable, if not more so, than anything offered by the stale and untimely newspaper articles.
Unions are understandably worried that their union members are facing redundancies based solely or the progression of technologies, not on competition.
News Media Canada said in their report that "Virtually all our digital media outlets now face an existential threat because of the anti-competitive practices of web giants Facebook and Google" https://nmc-mic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Levelling-the-Digital-Playing-Field-2020.10.19-1.pdf
What a crock of bovine waste!
Our so-called newspapers have become mostly advertising flyers with a smattering of questionable news articles, which leaves the citizens dropping their subscription for delivery service of environmental clutter.
The dissemination of news via the social media IS a threat to newspapers but not for the reason proffered by News Media Canada but for the fact that newspapers have or are becoming archaic.
Taxpayer beyond their shelf-life, their do date beyond their inevitable march into history!
Our regime subsidizes media in an attempt to control content, which is something they can't do with social media on the internet!
Social Media is the greatest threat to those who want to control the dissemination of information.
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ReplyDeleteDepends on what social media. The likes of facebook, twitter and youtube are no longer social media platforms but are publishers.
ReplyDeleteThe Minute Mainstream media outlets accepted the Government bail out money (Taxpayer Funded Bribe), honest journalism died and they became nothing more than Bought and Paid Whores for the Left.
ReplyDeleteI don't get news and information from social media. There is too much garbage and simply opinion on social media, no fact checking. I want reliable news sources with fact checking and an editorial board. Any Joe can set up a Youtube channel and spout their opinion. It does not make this fact, which is why I don't digest social media for "news".
ReplyDeleteThank you for your welcome opinion in this space provided for you to fact check for yourself.
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