It is becoming clear that should the Liberals win the next federal election, not only will the CBC be spared the gallows, but almost the entire media ecosystem will be permanently partnered with politicians.
That conclusion was reached upon reading the latest report from the Public Policy Forum (PPF), “The Lost Estate,” which provides an overview of the news industry’s dilemmas, the number of media that have gone out of business, and the number of new platforms that have launched. It cites 526 failures since 2008, mostly community newspapers (about half of which were in centres of less than 20,000 people) and 402 new launches, 276 of which have succeeded.
