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Good. If journalists had been doing their job for the last 15 years they would not need federal intervention to force other businesses to fund them, they would
by gxt 3y ago
Good. If journalists had been doing their job for the last 15 years they would not need federal intervention to force other businesses to fund them, they would not need subsidies, and we would not have these incompetent politicians and these repeated failures on almost every level of government.
Journalists need to do their job for subscribers and the public:
* Keep an updated profile on every elected official, judge, journalists, high level clerk, private entities and their owners who work for government and who get money from government.
* Keep track of the MONEY by providing analysis and correlations of potential misbehaving officials.
* Who voted for what and how it conflicts with their promises for the term.
* Every statement from elected official and how it conflicts with previous statements, corresponding retractions or post mortems.
* Previous and future employment history of elected officials to root out ethicsless individuals.
* There's a very long list of accountability measures journalists should be providing to make them worth their weight but they do only the above with extreme ideological selectiveness which nullifies it all. It needs to be done in full for them all of them to be objective and to get Canadians to subscribe to them.
- knallfrosch 3y agoSorry, but that's simply not true. The ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) released things like the Panama Papers and Football Leaks. Those were massive investigations, and yet the yielded little attention. Simply do opinion pieces about migration, climate or gender and you'll get a hundred times the attention (and ads.) Newspapers no longer have the news alone, they don't have a used-item market (ebay) or real estate ads. Those were cross-funding the real journalism. Look no further than Trump to see how much "the people" care about the truth.
- kevingadd 3y agoJournalists aren't the ones who make decisions about how a news site monetizes its content, and they aren't the ones responsible for the consolidation of the media. This whole dispute is 100% about monetization and has nothing to do with the idea that journalists somehow completely abandoned their responsibilities.