My fellow blogger Mr Prince beat me to it! http://blog.johnprince.ca/2010/06/pork-barreling-politics-alive-and-well.html
I ask the question how does the average Joe on the street get his information on politics, it should be through a totally unbiased media that reports the "news". How can the media be unbiased when it is paid off by the government in power. On the release below you will see that Ted Menzies is providing $420,605 to the local "unbiased" media in his riding.
When you do the math on 308 riddings that's $129,546,340 that's a lot of money.
http://www.tedmenzies.ca/EN/5058/114426
Does anybody know anything about this program? when did it start, who brought it in? why are the feds doing this?
4 comments:
Its true to say that an unbiased media should exist and it should make the real news known to all. A media financed by the government will never release a true news.
Mr. Prince? Why so formal Dean??
I liked how you summed this issue up... How can the media be unbiased when it is paid off by the government in power?.... Well done!
The answer to the above question is obviously it can't be unbiased. Mainstream Media, including community weekly newspapers, in essence sell themselves to the highest bidder, much like what prostitutes do, and as such are bought and paid for by MONEY, which in turn has either client or employer in the government/politicians they serve, who pass laws that benefit these (media) corporations, and round and round it goes.
How can people get off this merry go round you ask? By helping to hurry along the process that is already underway in this country i.e. the death of print media. Stop buying the 'fake reality' rags (e.g. I never buy the Herald. I read it but I never buy it. :-) Soon I will do the same with the Promoter, if they continue to unduly prop up our Mayor, as they have been doing of late).
Stop supporting the dream merchants and instead support those who speak out against the machine. Let live only those that are unbiased and objective in their reporting, while shutting down those that aren't, is one way to deal with this problem.
Dean, if you did some research, you would find that the funding you're talking about is the Canadian Periodicals Fund. This replaces the former and already established Canadian Magazine Fund (started by the Liberal government in 1999) and the Publications Assistance Program, which has been running in one form or another for the past 150 years. The new fund combines both of those into one.
The funds are provided to magazines and non-daily newspapers in Canada to help offset the high cost of mailing their publications and to ensure that publications of all political bents (or of no political bent at all in the case of special interest and hobbyist publicatons) are able to continue operating.
Please inform your readers of these facts.
The Promoter and Echo are Quebecor.
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