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“Media” is already a plural. “Medium” (method of conveyance) is the singular.

Some Canadian independent media to look at instead of the postmedia shills:

• CBC
• The Globe and Mail
• The Winnipeg Free Press
• The Narwhal
• The Tyee
• SRC/Radio Canada (Français)
• Ground News
• Le Devoir(Français)
• La Presse(Français)

Other non US news:

• Reuters (UK)
• Al Jazeera (Middle East)
• The Guardian (UK)

Can canada start broadcasting shortwave into the US?

Might be useful if the US imposes martial law and shut down the internet in preparation for a invasion of Canada.

Can a friendly Canadian make a petition? 👀

This should be a tshirt

SHARE FAR AND WIDE. Canadian here. I am requesting those watching from around the world to join our boycott of American products and travel to the US. We can protect ourselves and our democracies. We can see what is happening in the US. We have the power of our wallets. Our children depend on our actions to secure their futures. To ensure democracies stand. I am the resistance. You are the resistance. We, the people of the world, are the resistance. When we stand together, we stand stronger. We outnumber them. Thank you for reading this post. Please pass the message along in your communities. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Canada will remain Canada 🇨🇦 the true north strong and FREE. Elbows Up!!!

These should be shut down

Be careful with all medias. Especially the ones with profit motives/agendas.

Really talking about Chatham Asset Management and PostMedia (a subsidiary), that own almost 80-90% of print media (written news and periodicals, including almost all rural papers and online content). Even now, most people I speak to barely know about either, and it’s reach is way beyond the listed periodicals.

Is this as big a deal as it sounds? Kind of. Because the CEO determined they were “insufficiently conservative”, he appointed Kevin Libin to coordinate all of the organizations under their umbrella to provide “reliably conservative media.” Consider what that phrase even means - it’s not perspective, it’s an introduction of bias. This isn’t something that really exists anywhere else in Canadian News ecosystem, even in the far right, and is one part of the media ecosystem’s challenges.

However, they also get the benefit of being “center” between lunatics like Rebel News and True North and the CBC; this gives both them and further right rags more legitimacy than earned by virtue of the total absence of a Canadian far left media ecosystem, hence the attacks on the CBC itself (which does contain editorial, but is general one of the most fact based and investigative journalism driven media organizations in Canada). It also allows them to “create a consensus” by essentially just agreeing with themselves.

Even the Toronto Star, one of the “most left” credible independent media organizations, is now under (separate) conservative ownership.

Frankly, if you’re a subsidiary, you should be forced to wear every one of your ownership’s emblem “Chatham/PostMedia presents” in double font every time you throw up your Vancouver Sun or Calgary Herald.

You don’t have to like or dislike any of these organizations, but the total lack of transparency while structuring this discussion as central consensus is about as disingenuous as you can get.

Things like Ground News (factuality and partisan bias news screeners) help somewhat, but require some literacy in terms of statistics and data. It’s worth learning tools like these (or tracking it yourself across everything you read, and looking at a wide berth of the various perspectives in Canada, which is extremely laborious especially in an age where we can barely get people to click past headlines, hence the specific name drop for Ground News which does a lot of this for people).

an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class’s agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn’t) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the “father of public relations.” bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays’s methods, and you can see the results

they’re doing it again. it’s a conspiracy, but there’s nothing “theory” about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it’s probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it’s not “if” blood in the streets will happen, but “when”

I am a lifelong (since the '60s) CBC listener. I have become truly disappointed and have almost ceased to listen because I believe that CBC no longer represents all Canadians - just those in the highest political seats of our fine land. I am not convinced that CBC should continue to be 100% publicly funded (they were not always) - nor do I agree with the use of the funds that they are currently getting (bonuses when they are running a deficit). Too top heavy and no longer present a center position or less biased account of Canada. Sooooo discouraging and I don’t think that a lot of Canadians understand this. I am a proud Canadian and will continue respect and engage politely with all Canadians regardless of their rally cries.

@AlexSavard I read the #MontréalGazette and the #NationalPost, and I can assure you that they are strongly opposed to the #TrumpTariffs, notwithstanding their ownership.