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Corporate media have reached consensus about Andrew Scheer: He's Stephen Harper with a human face!
David J. Climenhaga | Despite Andrew Scheer's supposedly human face, don't bet the urban farm on him or his Conservative Party getting very far on the strength of a nice smile.
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In Greenspon report, corporate media blames everything but itself
Nick Fillmore | In his new report, Greenspon has the nerve to write that Canada needs mainstream media to protect democracy. Who endorsed Stephen Harper for a fifth term again?
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How corporate media failed democracy in the U.S. presidential election
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The U.S. media effectively iced out a major-party candidate who consistently held the largest rallies, even without a media megaphone, while giving blanket coverage to candidate Donald Trump.
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Amy Goodman: Corporate media needs to be 'fourth estate' not 'for-the-state'
Phillip Dwight Morgan | What is the role of free press in protecting democracy? Phillip Dwight Morgan interviews Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now! on the subject.
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We have a corporate media problem
rabble staff | Our writers and editors work tirelessly to respond to the abysmal news coverage of late -- and at the heart of that work lies a growing problem we don't get to talk about often enough.
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rabble is ours -- all of ours -- to use and grow together
Tonya Surman | It's rabble's 15th anniversary and we called on one of our founders, Tonya Surman -- CEO of the Centre for Social Innovation -- and asked her why rabble is so important.
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With terror-obsessed corporate airwaves, it falls to social media to share human stories of EgyptAir victims
Dalia Thamin | The human cost of the recent EgyptAir disappearance over the Mediterrenean gave way to continuous experts' speculations about whether a bomb or cockpit sabotage was the reason for the crash.
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Corporate media isn't reporting on climate change. And it's killing us
Nick Fillmore | Our aging newspapers and private TV networks are doing little to inform Canadians in a meaningful way about the dramatic changes in the climate that are already altering life in this country.
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Celebrating the power of independent media in an age of consolidation
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Even in this high-tech digital age, all we get is static: that veil of distortion, misrepresentations and half-truths that obscure reality. We need a media that covers power, not covers for power.
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One thing progressives should do more of
Murray Dobbin | Despite surveys that show almost three-quarters of Canadians do, in fact, share our progressive vision of the future, their collective power is never garnered to create real change. Let's change that.
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The capitalist model for journalism is failing
Kim Elliott | Just five companies -- Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Quebecor, and TELUS -- control nearly 90 per cent of Canada's media landscape. Now more than ever we need to build independent media alternatives in Canada.
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Right-wing newspapers take over media markets in four more cities
David Molenhuis | Layoffs, lockouts and the forced resignations of many reporters, editors and photojournalists should be alarming. But you won't hear, see or read much about it from mainstream media!