Some of the bought & paid for media

[Kirkhill]

Getting your opinion out there...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/12/secret_partnership_fueling_climate_hawk_journalism___150480.html

 

[MARS]

Agreed.

It says a lot about modern day journalism that the two can be confused.

Agree fully with both you and HT's post that you quoted.

I labeled him that way purposely, and two-fold. One, I am gatekeeping the concept of "journalism", specifically what I consider to be the requisite double/triple sourcing that accompanies "news", at least in the MSM. Jamie Vernon going to the internet to fact-check JR doesn't meet that bar, IMO.

The 2nd is to highlight the changing nature of where we get the information that is important to each of us, be it facts, opinion, education, edutainment, infotainment, or simple gossip. That landscape has shifted considerably in recent years.

I can definitely relate to JR. He is exactly where I was at in my 2nd and 3rd year of Uni - smoking joints with my buddies in some dorm room, talking shit about whatever thoughts were running through my head that day. We didn't even have the internet to refer to, to "fact check" things though. JR definitely has wide appeal though, that's undeniable.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Lookit who's buying the Winnipeg Sun, as well as papers in Portage La Prairie and Kenora .....

Group led by former Manitoba cabinet minister to buy Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. says it has signed a deal to sell the Winnipeg Sun to the Klein Group Ltd, a group headed by former Manitoba cabinet minister Kevin Klein.

globalnews.ca

Meanwhile, a bit of the REST of the story via the Globe & Mail (also archived here) ....

A bit more on Klein here (usual Wikipedia caveats apply)

Kevin Klein (politician) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[QV]

Anyone else notice the lack of comments sections on media articles in CBC and National Post lately... I've noticed more and more there are fewer/almost no comment sections associated to posted articles. I quite enjoyed those because you could see over time, particularly this past year just how much the readers where calling out bullshit on the headlines or content on the politically charged articles. Even the comments on the CBC articles were highly critical of the "narrative" (Trudeau good, climate crisis, oil bad, CAF are rapey...etc). My tin foil hat says, this is just another step to control and regulate the message.

 

[Remius]

I’m going to go with hateful/extreme postings that require too much moderation/cost to deal with that it’s just easier to turn off comments.

 

[brihard]

I’m going to go with hateful/extreme postings that require too much moderation/cost to deal with that it’s just easier to turn off comments.

Yup, I’d say this. They’ve been replete with vitriol and abuse for years, to the point of outright attacks on reporters or subjects of articles. There’s no onus on the news organization to platform that.

 

[mariomike]

They’ve been replete with vitriol and abuse for years, to the point of outright attacks on reporters or subjects of articles.

From the pre-internet era,

How to write a Letter to the Editor​

LTEs should always be courteous, no matter how much you disagree with the authors of the article.

 

[QV]

I’m going to go with hateful/extreme postings that require too much moderation/cost to deal with that it’s just easier to turn off comments.

That would indeed be the Occam's Razor version, but it's just not as much fun.