I'm convinced they were posted to rile up the comments. They are not even insightful op-eds one can disagree with. Just angry old man yells at cloud drivel. yet to the top they go
Oof, it would be hard to say that out loud with a straight face. But it has some merit.
Most of the posts here are by a small group of people kind enough to repost stuff from their RSS feeds or other aggregators.
Any relevant content is appreciated at this early stage. And only a small percentage of an already small group comment on any platform. As the numbers grow we should see more interaction.
Because of this comment, Im going to comment on every post I see, hopefully I start some conversations...
That always entertained me with Reddit reading 2 people talking about some small pointless thing
What do you think about Taylor Swift not having any Canadian tour dates?
Personally I think it is nothing short of an affront to our Canadian honour, and we should organize a militia to do something about it. I suggest our militia track down her ex boyfriends and start an anti-Swift club.
Unfortunately, the CBC is kinda the only game in town for news media for a lot of Canada.
In Canada it's basically PostMedia, the Thomson family, and CBC. I think the Toronto Star is under different ownership than the rest, but lately The Star has been indistinguishable from PostMedia. And out of those only PostMedia and CBC cover local news stories. PostMedia has cut back on staff so much and are trying to do the Rupert Murdoch thing (so aren't trustworthy).
So that leaves us with the CBC. This is what the death of traditional media looks like I suppose. Only sources of news are either government funded or are grifters. And some like PostMedia are government funded grifters.
Not good to only have government funded media be the only source of news, but there really aren't other viable options.
All media is government funded. The CBC is basically public broadcasting. The fact people want to portray it as a media empire that pushes left wing propaganda is absurd. If it doesn’t align with their viewpoint, it’s fake news. At this rate, if the people screaming had their way, they’d probably call Mr. Dressup and Mr. Rogers commies.
There are other sources besides the big mainstream ones, such as The Walrus, The Tyee, The Conversation, Rabble, Canadian Dimension, and others I'm probably forgetting.
Yes but how reliable are the other sources? Anyone can easily set up a website and put some articles.
The distrust of "mainstream media" is a paradox. You can't trust a brand new website for reliable information, because it could just be a random person making shit up. But once a site has been around for a while and has built up a reputation, it gets labelled as "mainstream media" and therefore also shouldn't be trusted.
Besides that, a news site has to be fairly large to be able to afford having journalists spending time investigating stories. But opinions are cheap, and that's generally what the indie "news" sites are. Mostly just a collection of opinion columns with little to no stories resulting from investigative journalism. Sure mainstream media is doing a lot of opinion too, because its cheap and makes money, but at least there's going to be some people at a larger organization doing actual journalism.
I think we just lack honesty in medias biases overall. CBC has a liberal biases , NP and Toronto Star has a neo Conservative biases . Having both is healthy . Having extremist calling for blood and conspiracy and sharing fake news is bad.
Also , sharing columnists' opinions is not sharing news and we have to acknowledge that. Those are just opinions .
There is too much columnist and not enough facts reporting( there are , but we focuses on opinions about facts at 90%).
AP news is probably the most fact neutral IMO.