General Politics Discussion

[tomh009]

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.

Most mainstream media does short newsbites, whether from CP/AP/Reuters or their own. Probably because that's what most people want to read, short attention spans and all.

G&M does do some excellent deep investigative journalism from time to time -- one example was a very solid investigation into the black and (in particular) indigenous incarceration rates and their causes in Canada, in late 2020. Those kinds of investigations take months of work, though, so even the best media outlets do that relatively infrequently.

That particular investigation is still worth reading:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/a...sessments/

Maybe available somewhere without a paywall? But this kind of work is what makes my G&M subscription worthwhile.