Two years ago, I made the prediction there wouldn’t be a print newspaper in Canada in four years. Well, here we are, where Metroland, sister company to the Toronto Star filed for bankruptcy, laid off 2/3 of its staff, and ceased printing. What’s left will be strickly online. Hmmm, wonder why?
Here’s the Globe and Mail’s story (paywall). It notes more than 70 papers are done print. Here’s Metroland’s link to their brands.
In a related note, Pipeline Online is just two weeks shy of its second anniversary. Working in newspapers was like being a crewmember of the Titanic. It was just a matter of time before the thing went under. And thus, going on my own, being master of my own destiny, was necessary.
(From Kate: You need to add a “Support Pipeline Online” link to your website header, Brian. And you folks with ties to the energy industry, especially in SE Sask, should consider advertising. Use it or lose it!)
Well it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of liberal propagandist. The MSM has become nothing more than leftwing lobbyist with bylines.
Amen to that, Rose.
Trudeau’s bailouts were not to “buy” the loyalty of the media. The media had been water carriers for the Left for decades.
Ideologically, they were already totally in his camp, long before the bailouts.
Problem was, nobody was purchasing their rags. The bailout was to keep the Message coming, as Canadians were not paying for it anymore.
That is why “Trudeau’s Adoring Media” is a more accurate moniker than “Trudeau’s bought and paid for media.”
The latter phrase indicates that they needed buying. They didn’t. They just needed life support. Like most left wing causes and organizations, they cannot make it without gov’t deciding to throw your tax dollars at them. Cuz the gov’t knows better than you do what your beliefs are, and where your money should go.
Did anyone notice the CEO of Torstar is called “Neil Oliver”??????
I looked at Post Media’s financials (PNC-A.TO), their profit margin is -20%. They will be broke soon as well. No sympathy here. They chose to push a narrative rather than report news so let them go broke.
Yup….we are very seriously considering dropping our subscription to the “Calgary” Herald. There is little value in it any more. Bush league “journalists” interviewing the same handful of Mount Royal “University” hacks and NDP stand-ins for “opinion”.
I dropped my Edmonton Journal subscription that I had for years sometime in the early nineties and never bought a single copy after. I keep hoping they’ll go under before I die.
Anyone who has been subscribing to these biased outlets are part of the problem.
Next up? Black Press in BC. Essentially, it is the equivalent of Metroland.
Free Community papers, stuffed with flyers, and, Liberal leftist playbook screed masquerading as “local” issues. Yes, BP received millions from TruDOPE in the big media Payola scam.
Bird Cage liner.
I agree with Kate’s footnote tha leaders within an industry should advocate for the industry. In particular, the leaders should use grassroots techniques to make visible the issues at hand.
A case in point: here is New Brunswick there will be a provincial election in a year. Much of it will be fought on the parental rights versus transgender mutilation issue. The three opposing parties — the Liberals, NDP and Greens — support the sexual mutilation of children. So does the corporate media– the CBC, CTV and Global news. So too the well-funded LGBTPed groups. There are two poorly-funded grassroots groups supporting Blaine Higgs.
If the Progtessive Conervtives and the two grassroots groups can get their act together and mass produce lawns saying “support parents rights” to put around the province, the side of good could win. But Progressive Conservatives tend to be old farts and anti-grassroots.
Our local rag, The Glengarry News, shutdown last week after 100 plus years. As Ontario Farmer journalist Ian Cumming correctly pointed out, over the last twenty years or so it (G. News) became a copy-and-paste operation that did nothing but regurgitate govt propaganda.
How much money went into the pockets of the owner before they weren’t able to pay TorStar for the use of their presses?
Looks like the news media Trudeau subsidy vaccination has resulted in a large number of sudden deaths.
Well good. Let’s give them a booster and finish them off.
“strickly”?