Jim, here's the scoop on "socialist" media from one who started on provincial dailies age 16 and held some of the most senior responsibilities in the country. Reporters aren't media owners. The owners are rich and influential. Reporters are mostly liberal, a dirty word in your country but not ours. Generally they're attracted to the craft as notions of being useful, "afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted," sort of as the Occupiers now try to bring attention to injustices.
Reporters live daily with common struggles to survive in societies where the gap widens between rich and poor every year, more now than ever. Owners of great newspapers or networks are elites. Common people like us buy their products. We're the 99 per cent, the market. Responsible media speaks to our concerns and, if truth be known, is the true guarantor of what political freedoms that remain. Canada's two most influential media empires, both conservative, are currently raging against our conservative government's authoritarian streak.
Socialist? Hardly. They're with the market, the tens of millions here and hundreds of millions there who struggle daily with capricious forces over which they seemingly have no control.
Would you have it any other way?
Last edited by King Brown; 02/29/12 11:22 AM.
