Great Gilded North EP1 - The Ruling Class' Domination of Canadian Media (w Sam Smart)
Expats & Allies19 Nov 2021

Great Gilded North EP1 - The Ruling Class' Domination of Canadian Media (w Sam Smart)

Local news begins to disappear. Coverage on important issues wanes. Year after year, headlines emerge about which media giant is buying smaller outlets. Readers encounter the same stories in several community papers, only to discover the publications are all owned by the same company. Writer Sam Smart joins Maple Managing Editor Alex Cosh to discuss her story for the Maple titled "The Ruling Class' Domination of Canadian Media" about how Canada's media is dominated and has been destroyed by ...

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