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Is this the same Sun Media that begged the CRTC to force cable and satellite to offer their lovely news channel as part of basic TV service or am I thinking of a different Canadian corporation using the name Sun Media? e: PK loving SUBBAN posted:Christ would these guys just go bankrupt already. When is that loan payment they can make due anyways? September? I'd like to know this as well so I can start planning the party when Postmedia finally dies BallsFalls fucked around with this message at 20:40 on May 12, 2016 |
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jm20 posted:The Liberals on the committee were quick to accuse Godfrey of contradicting himself. Postmedia has been among the strongest critics of government spending on advertising, said Liberal MP Adam Vaughan.  jm20 posted:Godfrey responded by saying Postmedia columnists are given leeway to write articles that contradict their own company's positions on political and other issues. Unless said articles happen to be endorsements for political parties. Does take some gall to give the finger to the Liberals for the entire election campaign and then come back with hands outstretched later.
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If you guys like postmedia porn, thestar has this to sayquote:Postmedia is encumbered with $497.5 million in debt. With total assets of $740.6 million against liabilities of $729.7 million — including its massive, U.S.-held debt — Postmedia’s liquidation value at the end of its latest fiscal year was only $10.9 million. That’s the value of a handful of McDonald’s franchises. Take a gander at their slide deck's last page to see how bad they are doing YoY with revenue.
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May 12, 2016 20:57
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Instead of bankrolling Godfrey's unprofitable conservative propaganda network, the Liberals should just inject an equivalent amount of money into the CBC. Use it to poach away all Postmedia's journalists and copy writers. Just to gently caress with them.
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May 12, 2016 21:07
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Yeah, can we get 24 hours a day of this please, http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/canada-twitter-pokemon-sun-and-moon-1.3575783
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May 12, 2016 21:09
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God you're tiresome. If you want to do that gig go to UKMT and understudy Pissflaps for a bit.
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May 12, 2016 21:23
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im glad postmedia bought out all the small local papers and are now going to hold them ransom for government welfare
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RBC posted:im glad postmedia bought out all the small local papers and are now going to hold them ransom for government welfare It was the only way to make sure Canadians knew the horrible truth about the Left's international global "warming" hoax
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May 12, 2016 22:19
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The Butcher posted:Does take some gall to give the finger to the Liberals for the entire election campaign and then come back with hands outstretched later. The only moral welfare is my welfare. Why would the Canadian government deliberately throw money away on ineffective advertising in a dying and outmoded medium? Blockbuster Video didn't show up with hat in hand asking for the Canadian government to pay them to rent out NFB tapes. The largest benefit you get from newspapers these days is editorial, and Postmedia has been pretty clear about what kind of editorial they prefer to write - the kind I can get from Facebook groups and comment sections on existing CBC news articles. If some of the Canadaland podcasts are to be believed, Postmedia's short-term strategy is to turn into a white boomer outrage machine - in other words, the Sun. Local news is nice to have, but Postmedia has ruined the ability of their newsrooms in Calgary to gather local news and a ton of their headliner talent has fled to successful long-format national news magazines such as Macleans or to the provincial/federal governments. I am certain this is the case in all of their markets - if your local news strategy is to tell journalists to rewrite press releases instead of engage in expensive reporting, you're not going to retain the cream of the crop no matter how little you pay them or how heavy-handed your blocking of any attempts to unionize are. Postmedia can't even make the jobs argument - they've already axed local printing of nearly all of their papers, costing hundreds of specialist jobs. This follows on the heels of many failed attempts to outsource copy-editing, centralize higher-paying web/software dev jobs and remove many other admin tasks. They are a layoff machine in the guise of a news organization. Let 'em die. If you can have a monopoly, and it still isn't successful, it doesn't deserve to exist. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 22:38 on May 12, 2016 |
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This guy is  ing so hard, it's amazing.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/10/ontario-setting-new-rules-to-end-era-of-suburban-sprawl-across-gta.html quote:The man who represents one of the largest development industry groups in Canada wasted little time in criticizing Tuesday’s announcement, warning of bad news on the horizon for people living in the region.
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May 12, 2016 22:57
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RBC posted:im glad postmedia bought out all the small local papers and are now going to hold them ransom for government welfare Those local papers already died when Godfrey sacked the employees and centralized the newsrooms
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May 12, 2016 23:13
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They still exist. They are much smaller. There is a need for journalism in smaller cities. Not sure what point you are trying to make since you linked to an article that's about edmonton, calgary and ottawa. Those aren't the kind of cities I'm talking about. The sun papers are not the papers I'm talking about. The journalist covering city hall in sault st marie is not jumping ship to macleans. Nor do you need the cream of the crop to report on whatever city councillors passed that night. You just need someone there that is getting paid and has professional standards.
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Sure, there's a need, but let's be real: Postmedia didn't buy up all those local papers and they're not trying to hold onto them so they can do journalism. They did it so they could try to shape public opinion in Canada so that it would reflect their preferred ideology and get their preferred party elected.
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May 12, 2016 23:53
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RBC posted:The journalist covering city hall in sault st marie is not jumping ship to macleans. Nor do you need the cream of the crop to report on whatever city councillors passed that night. You just need someone there that is getting paid and has professional standards. FWIW I went to journalism school in BC almost 10 years ago and most of my classmates would have shived someone for any job involving writing whatsoever. It was expected that you would have to "pay your dues" in some shithole town for a couple years minimum if you wanted the remotest shot at anything better than covering the local bake-sale in Terrace. I think a few people stayed the course. I went from video game news, to editing self-published trash, to volunteering in advocacy. "J-Schools" continue to churn out shiny grads every year. Meanwhile, the first rumblings of discontent and rage over the rebuilding of Fort Mac have begun. Crowds Overwhelm Fort Mac Clean-up Jobs. Gonna be an interesting summer for Alberta.
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THC posted:Sure, there's a need, but let's be real: Postmedia didn't buy up all those local papers and they're not trying to hold onto them so they can do journalism. They did it so they could try to shape public opinion in Canada so that it would reflect their preferred ideology and get their preferred party elected. Of course they did. It's just played out so that they have control over, in many cases, the single newspaper in small cities, which still have a city hall beat reporter, sandwiched in between whatever generic editorial and AP reprints they fill the rest of the daily content with. In a lot of cases, that is the only thing keeping people reading the content. So now postmedia has a lot of assets that maybe are only important to local residents and have some cultural value, but aren't necessarily financially valuable. I'm not kidding when I say that was a ransom letter to the canadian government. It's their business plan.
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The corporate media doesn't buy up local news to support great local reporters, they buy them to control public opinion. You don't need to sack some schmo living in sault st marie covering the street or dissolve a local publication to do so, you just need to ensure you have a yes-man at some point in editing and vetting process. This is the same corporation that had one of their top editorial minions - Andrew Coyne - resign over censorship. Do you think these local papers have the full liberty to discuss political matters in a way that doesn't toe the company's preferred line?
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May 13, 2016 00:15
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yeah man the media is totally controlling our minds because everyone is reading newspapers and listening to radio  lmao
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BallsFalls posted:The corporate media doesn't buy up local news to support great local reporters, they buy them to control public opinion. You don't need to sack some schmo living in sault st marie covering the street or dissolve a local publication to do so, you just need to ensure you have a yes-man at some point in editing and vetting process. Did you read anything I wrote at all??
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Like I said, don't bail out Postmedia. gently caress 'em. Meanwhile, order the CBC to do more local programming and give them money. It would be worth it just to watch the conservatives' heads explode
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After even Salomon, Amanda lang and jian you still want to give this poo poo nest more money Lol gently caress you idiot
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RBC posted:Of course they did. It's just played out so that they have control over, in many cases, the single newspaper in small cities, which still have a city hall beat reporter, sandwiched in between whatever generic editorial and AP reprints they fill the rest of the daily content with. In a lot of cases, that is the only thing keeping people reading the content. So now postmedia has a lot of assets that maybe are only important to local residents and have some cultural value, but aren't necessarily financially valuable. I'm not kidding when I say that was a ransom letter to the canadian government. It's their business plan. The future was always hyper local, Postmedia and the like are just too big to pivot towards it. lovely community newspapers for all!
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Cultural Imperial posted:After even Salomon, Amanda lang and jian you still want to give this poo poo nest more money
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Cultural Imperial posted:After even Salomon, Amanda lang and jian you still want to give this poo poo nest more money I'll take all of those if it'll bring back Under the Influence
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TheKingofSprings posted:I'll take all of those if it'll bring back Under the Influence http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence ?
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You're dumb as hell.
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Cultural Imperial posted:You're dumb as hell. Sorry I keep missing it at work, I guess? 
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apatheticman posted:The future was always hyper local, Postmedia and the like are just too big to pivot towards it. lovely community newspapers for all! Well, Gen X and Millennials are going to be hosed if they don't have newspapers to file obituaries and legally required notices to creditors when their parents kick off in the much anticipated Great Boomer Die-Off. This might require a (shudder) change to legislation.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Sorry I keep missing it at work, I guess? 
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Hexigrammus posted:Well, Gen X and Millennials are going to be hosed if they don't have newspapers to file obituaries and legally required notices to creditors when their parents kick off in the much anticipated Great Boomer Die-Off. This might require a (shudder) change to legislation. Or a hot start up idea. Hootsuite for death.
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BallsFalls posted:The corporate media doesn't buy up local news to support great local reporters, they buy them to control public opinion. You don't need to sack some schmo living in sault st marie covering the street or dissolve a local publication to do so, you just need to ensure you have a yes-man at some point in editing and vetting process. Postmedia bought other papers because they were (and are) a newspaper publisher and consolidation was the path the entire industry was taking. Sometimes bad businesses are just bad businesses.
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Oh hey there was a forum today about corrections in Ontario (Ottawa). Also here's a video about how the outsourcing of food services in jails impacts inmates / provides lovely value for taxpayers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECAaf5bgYo
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Jordan7hm posted:Oh hey there was a forum today about corrections in Ontario (Ottawa). The conditions at the OCDC are deplorable, and it's horrendous that more isn't done. I get that a big part of the problem is the optics of giving perks to criminal thugs, but as I understand it, if not a majority then surely a significant number of people at the jail haven't even been convicted of anything. They've only been charged and are awaiting trial. Bringing this topic up usually generates the same reply, "If you don't want to endure the conditions in prison, don't commit crimes!  " It's frustrating that, on one hand, there is demand for change in the corrections system, and we seem to have ministers who are at least interested in enacting some kind of reforms, but on the other hand, they have to deal with a public that thinks prison isn't bad enough and that human rights violations are a feature and not a bug. Then again, one Ottawa woman is paying the price for literally hugging a thug. CBC posted:Police say what started as a kind gesture in Times Square ended with an assault that sent a Canadian woman to hospital.
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quote:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dion-rejects-law-targeting-russian-human-rights-violators/article30006600/ Human trafficking is.. um... I think that's technically tourism? Or is it job creation? Either way it's not something we should stop, because trying to do that would annoy a country that we value as a trading partner and we can't have that. Let's recant an election promise and not do the thing that all of Parliament - even the evil hated robot bigot man - agreed was a good idea. Is weed legal yet? Oh god I'm turning into him.
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May 13, 2016 15:00
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At least Justin Trudeau is the most beautiful world leader
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May 13, 2016 15:09
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People here in the US always ask me about Justin Trudeau. He really is our very own Obama.
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vyelkin posted:People here in the US always ask me about Justin Trudeau. He really is our very own Obama. I hope you correct them and tell them Rob Ford was our Obama. The white Obama. https://twitter.com/RoysonJames/status/715184382152155137
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I think Dion has made the right choice in this case. It's unfortunate that we find ourselves in a situation where we must make this choice, but sadly Harper's mismanagement of our diplomatic relationship with certain countries means that our hand is forced, in a sense. An improving relationship with Russia is, frankly, more important than dealing with a few lovely criminals.
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PT6A posted:An improving relationship with
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Russia isnt really worse than the average european country when it comes down to freedom and human rights.
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