Postmedia's Decade of Pushing Canada's Politics to the Right (www.readtheorchard.org)

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[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Fascist rag, owned by fascists promoting fascism.

I will make one correction here. "Decade" should be "decades"

[-] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Americans are an adversary, PostMedia should be owned by Canadians or broken up and sold bit by bit at a loss. How the fuck is our media controlled by facists.

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Post media shouldn't be allowed in Canada. America is slowly eroding our government and freedoms.

[-] Rion@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Why only CBC? One source of information is unhealthy.

[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I like the CBC for the most part, but I wish they pushed back a lot more instead of just simply copy pasting whatever some politician says.

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pushing back is investigative journalism or opinion pieces. Which are a vital parts of a healthy newsroom, of course.

But for the most part, reporting the news is supposed to be just copy pasting what politicians say.

if mark carney says "pipelines are good", it's the job of the news to report that mark carney said "pipelines are good".... thats not an endorsement of pipelines. It's just reporting the facts... it's not the job of the CBC to colour that news with their own opinion, even if its something you and i agree with. Thats how you end up with shit like fox news

[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, that's not what journalism is. That's a talking platform. Journalism's main goal is to inform the public, not pass on talking points.

Journalism is when a politician says "we will wait for an international court to label the crimes in Palestine as genocide because that is precedent" when it really hasn't been a precedent and it's very easily searchable (like Canada recognizing the Uyghur genocide), basic journalism is pointing out that discrepancy. No investigation needed, no opinion, purely informative.

Otherwise, it's a megaphone outlet for talking heads.