.MichelleRempel: Goodbye, Canadian news. We hardly knew ye.
offer a glimpse into what post-merger operations at the potential PostmediaNordstarStateSubsidizedOmnicorp could look like.
Looking at the potential merger through that lens, the timing of Rodriguez’s bozo eruption was suspect.
The federal Liberal government is probably thrilled about this new reality. They benefit from a lack of journalistic capacity to scrutinize their operations. They also benefit from outlets that have survived but are now dependent on subsidies having little corporate incentive to bite the hand that feeds them. That the Liberals will have arrived at this arrangement while being plausibly able to blame it on Facebook and Google politically helps them too.
The Liberals also politically benefit from the fact that today's news content comes primarily from journalists who live and have spent most of their lives in the federal Liberal's seat of power - downtown Toronto and Ottawa. When this homogeneity in regional and cultural perspective combines with the lack of overall journalistic capacity, it means issues of national interest will be missed, and the government will not be held to account when it needs to be.
Also thrilled will be the corporate executives and shareholders of companies like Postmedia and Nordstar. Having failed to adapt their business models to the disappearance of print media advertising, the Liberal government has helped to pay their bonuses while watching the death of the production of something that has an intrinsic value to the entire country - actual journalistic content.
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