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The Corporate Takeover of Canadian News Media Is Accelerating | Jacobin.com (jacobin.com)

submitted 2 years ago by grte@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, when has Canadian News Media outside of public broadcasting not been corpwned?

[–] SymbolicLink@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah "corporate owned" is intentionally vague and just stirs up confusion IMO.

Canadian media and the general public need to start calling a spade a spade and use words like "monopoly" and "oligopoly" instead.

Toronto Star is a "corporation" that is being bought by PostMedia (another "corporation"), centralizing more of our media landscape and bringing us closer to a "monopoly".

Par for the course in Canada unfortunately.