Thoughts From Canada's Deep Thought Community

[Locutus]

The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think

Under the guise of a migration to the digital world, Canada's news media is undergoing the biggest journalistic fire sale of its history. It is taking place on such a scale that it might be more appropriate to call it a liquidation of information-gathering resources and it is happening under the nose of a political class that is, for the most part, content to look the other way.
​

People aren't "migrating to digital". They're tuning out completely, or migrating to more trusted sources.

Related

Deep Impact - Small Dead Animals

 

[Ludlow]

That's deep man

 

[Scooby]

The future of news gathering and reporting is becoming user driven, as it should be. Nobody should be told what is important and what isn't. Nor should they attempt shape public option from a psudo-authoritarian position as has been the standard.
Print media and corporate run news should die, and in it's death there will be a new kind of journalist created.

Now that's deep...

 

[Ludlow]

The future of news gathering and reporting is becoming user driven, as it should be. Nobody should be told what is important and what isn't. Nor should they attempt shape public option from a psudo-authoritarian position as has been the standard.
Print media and corporate run news should die, and in it's death there will be a new kind of journalist created.

Now that's deep...

yeah it is running pretty deep.

 

[darkbeaver]

The truth ain't new. It's just rolling arround again, crushes everything in it's path, flat

 

[petros]

You can learn math and get a real job or you can be a journalist or lawyer.

 

[bill barilko]

Never met a 'journalist' I'd want to sit in the same room with for more than a few minutes.