06-04-2022, 01:23 AM
(06-03-2022, 10:18 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(06-03-2022, 07:59 PM)KevinL Wrote: That our only remaining reliable mainstream journalistic media are all directly aligned with just one of the ruling parties(' supporters) is of deep concern. And not just in this country.
I don't see that with the CBC, but maybe my glasses are rose-coloured.
For G&M, they have columnists who are clearly supportive of Liberals, and other supportive of Conservatives/PCs. Maybe no one clearly in the NDP camp, though.
NP is very much in the Conservative camp.
I don't read the Star (too many subscriptions already) so can't judge whether they include multiple points of view.
I think a lot of our news media leans conservative these days, but that wasn't actually my main objection.
The media is aggressively establishment. Less so than the US, but they seem unwilling or unable to properly cover and frame some of the extraordinary things going on right now. Between the housing crisis, rising extremism, and the 1000 lb gorilla of climate change, they consistently fail to give in depth clear analysis of the effects, causes, and possible solutions. Instead they usually just parrot talking points and prefer to push the narrative of the day, rather than keeping important but less popular stories going.
In some ways it isn't a new problem, but our world is accelerating, with increasing levels of analytics data this makes the problems orders of magnitude more acute.