Holly Doan asks this question: “Has your local paper improved in the almost 3-years since #cdnmedia subsidies were introduced? Do you even know how much your local paper is getting? No, because it’s a #secret.”
In 2020 the Trudeau government started paying ongoing subsidies to newspapers. It was a trip into the unknown! How did gov’t decide which papers to bail out and which to let die? What about independence of the press?
Having said that, last spring Blacklocks Reporter dug up this little nugget.
The Manitoba publisher that spearheaded a 2019 campaign for press subsidies last year received more than $6.2 million in federal aid, according to accounts. Subsidies were equivalent to more than half of net income for FP Newspapers Inc., publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press and Brandon Sun: “Of course there will be newspapers that fail, and you can’t give it to them forever.”
Survival of the Print Media is not the concern.
Being able to use huge amounts of tax payers money to ensure the survival of the Liberal Party of Canada….
Wonderful.
The media…in all its forms is failing..
They needed the consumers trust..
Which they lost by lying.
The narrative has always been present,in the past the storytellers were forced to use facts to shape it.
Now,facts be damned,they have feelings..
No one likes being scolded and preached at.
Especially by losers like our media..
“The Editor” always knows best and dictates the party line.
So we stopped buying the crap they were selling.
Government decided,for the above logic,to subsidize the media..
Now we have Pravda clone media..
Dear Leader is wonderful,dear Leader has made life so beautiful..
Now no “right minded” media will report the peasants are poorer,hungrier and colder.
They would lose what is most important to themselves..
Stolen loot from the taxpayers.
Who obviously deserve it,because they will not buy what the media is selling..
Just ask any parasite at the CBC.
Last September, Rebel News published a 29 page list of the recipients of the Liberal bribes.
https://www.rebelnews.com/exclusive_news_media_who_secretly_took_trudeaus_61m_pre-election_pay-off?fbclid=IwAR2jV8R0HrR4yfNfaybkejo_7JKdQI1NZNInsy8_8QhRHpBYFAIo2DWmY68
You have to scroll down to the bottom for the lists.
There are many “trade publications” that are not really news – more just special interest like fishing or landscaping or travel etc. Or Ghanaian News ($34,923) – who knew there was a need for news from Ghana?
There used to be an impartial subsidy on Canadian newspapers and magazines. They used to be mailed postage free and the subscriptions were almost free. Not sure who ended that. When I grew up we likely had 10 magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Even pre-internet I subscribed to none. Bought a newspaper on days my workload was light.
I suspect the reason Canada Post quit mailing Canadian magazines and newspapers for free was they were stuffed full of flyers and Canada Post wanted to suck on that teat.
“Feds planning $30M ad buy to help media deal with COVID-19 fallout”
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/03/26/news/feds-planning-30m-ad-buy-help-media-deal-covid-19-fallout
Good catch Stan. I see adds for many government agencies in newspapers and magazines for tourism, promotions, etc. I wonder what to total revenue “private” publishers get from the federal government?
The purpose of most government advertising is for bribes. No one gives a fig about Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. But no media company wants to lose the revenue.
Just like when NP used to condemn CBC. Then CBC took out full page advertisements. So NP started praising CBC.
I used to subscribe to BC Outdoors. Then the cover sported the “Real Canadian” seal. I cancelled because after that all it talked about was global warming BS.
I haven’t read the local provincial rag in three years, and the local one went belly up at the beginning of covid. I refuse to read slime stream media, it’s nothing more than liberal/ndp talking points tarted up as “News”.
The house I inherited is in NE B. C. The local fishwrap is delivered free to each household, though most of its content consists of flyers and similar advertising, pretty much the same stuff that Canada Post delivers. The only reason I still look at it is to see who died.
LOL that’s the only thing I miss about the local rag, is the obits. I’m the last to find out if someone I knew died.
Ditto, Rose.
A buddy texted me last week, one of our classmates from high school had passed. I teased him, asking if he had got to the point where the second thing he did every morning (after coffee) was to read the obits. He laughed & said it was his wife that read them.
That’s the only reason I still read the alumni rag from my university alma mater. I must be getting old–I know some of the people whose names are listed on the memorial page, including former undergrad classmates.
By ‘improved’, do you mean reprints and parrots Liberal talking-points exclusively now?
Then yes.
Back when the Toronto Red Star was still a public company, it was fun to read through their quarterly stock reports. I mean, the amount they lost on their stupid tablet of theirs was hilarious, then their overly optimistic read on who would actually pay to read them.
But their constant reminders about how much they were on the public teat got annoying (see: losses above).
Ah the Toronto Star, run by the most brilliant minds of the big city. My father used to get that paper – for about 10 or so years. Then they stopped delivering even though he had to pay for a 1 year subscription in advance. So he complained. Seems we don’t live in the area they deliver to. Eventually they sent him a refund. Then one day an email asking him to “Subscribe to the Toronto Star”. So he phoned. No problem said the girl, we deliver to your area. He waited and waited. No newspaper. So he phoned. Sorry we don’t deliver to your area. So he switched to the Hamilton Spectator. He met the paperman at the laneway one day (we live in the country) and the paperman says “first you cancel, then you switch papers. Weren’t you happy with the Toronto Star?”. Which he still delivers – to our area. My father did one of those “Moe faces” from the Three Stooges. Still gets the Spectator.
I had a similar thing happen with the Globe and Mail. Was offered a free 3-month trial subscription. Got the paper twice in the first week and once the following week. After a couple weeks of non-delivery I called and complained. Got the paper once more. Then nothing for the remainder of the trial period.
When they called to see if I was happy with my free trail, I snorted and said, “What free trial?” After I explained what had happened, the G&M person said, “Oh, let me extend your free trial.”
I laughed and said, “What? So you can NOT deliver my free paper for another 3 months? I think not.”
Newspaper…??
Bought the only time I see that stuff is occasionally as a packing wrap from Japanese Nikon Lens sellers… recycle bin is where it goes. Last actual prescription was for N. Post Sat Edition only…cancelled about 14 yrs ago.
Don’t watch MSM ever… don’t even pay for it as I stream. Mainstream Providers can kiss my (_i_), with their 100% propaganda & rip off pricing.. KODI/Stremio is the way to go & I’ll tune into Fox once in a while…
But for Actual NEWS worth reading about..?? This is the pLace right here.
I used to have the Edmonton Urinal delivered and finally gave up because it goofed up my subscription. Then I read it on-line for a number of years and stopped that when it went whole hog for Rotten Rachel.
I used to read three a day and they were not propaganda sheets as they are today. There was always some but even a child could recognize it.
Yup. In the mid-’80s, I read the Calgary Horrid, Calgary Scum, and the Mop and Pail every day they were published, along with the Financial Post, which was a weekly broadsheet back then.
‘Liberal’ fascist are bent on controlling the mass media.
They can’t handle the truth because the truth sets you free.
They can’t have that. To control and dicktate (sic) they got to shut up anything that contradicts the narrative from the disinformation central.
Their is the omission, fakery, lies and other such techniques of misinformation technology.
The technology is saved only by blogs like SDA and like places where information is chewed over by many and eventually the truth is told.
The media cartel, the political class and the ruling class can’t, just can’t have that.
I have not read the local paper in the last five years, it has nothing to offer
Propaganda comes at a price, you know.
Pulp fiction contents Canadians.
They are all at the trough, gorging on Dear Leaders demands.
Times Communist? Fuhgeddaboudit.
The Black Press community rags, reprints in each local region, is just Leftwing birdcage liner, full of neo-Marxism, greentopia, and more, more, more government is good propaganda. All it’s good for, other than bird cage liner, is some of the fliers.
Have never subscribed to newspapers, used to buy papers years ago to pass the time, or on the ferry, but not for 20 years now. All media and papers are agitprop.