Commentary Unless Canada intends to put most of its news media permanently under some form of government subsidy, Ottawa must get serious about a long-term plan for the sustainability of the industry. And that means not forcing people to give news away for free when other people are trying to build subscription-based business models. Everyone…
Peter Menzies: Ottawa’s Fix for the News Business Will Actually Hurt It
Peter Menzies: Proposed Online News Act Inserts the State Into the Newsrooms of the Nation
Commentary More than half a century ago Canada’s then-prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, famously declared that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Last week, the government of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau very quietly inserted that same state into the newsrooms of the nation. The tool used is something called the…
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