How are the media doing in Toronto? Journalist seeking your opinion.

AussieHustler said:

@The Kaiser

Merci Sxb, I thought you had commercial TV stations. I only watched one CBC program called, “The Fifth Estate” on YouTube and I thought that they were very similar to our national broadcaster the ABC. I thought they covered very respectfully and sensitively a documentary about the killings of young Somalis in Canada called ‘The Life and Death of Abdinasir Dirie’. It’s hard to judge by only one documentary, is that how you see it guys?

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MuMaMe said:

I feel like those stations do exactly what they are supposed to do, maintain certain narratives about certain people in the city.
In my life, I have never seen a news report about a successful person of color, much less a suceessful person of color interacting with the community that bred them.
Its always showing people who know how to stay on code or people that have very little awareness of the political and economic realities that drive this city.

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astorecalledkmart said:

Every media conglomerate in Canada is well-known to be biased toward the right or the left, and both effectively achieve the same goal of promoting an image of an inferior person of colour. Whether it's blatant fascist sensationalism from right wing rags such as The Rebel or The National Post, or stories of people of colour only succeeding through affirmative actionesque-BLM type pieces on pseudo-progressive platforms of the left, it's always the same story

At least the idiotic right paints all of us in the same colour; groups such as Vice seem to have an agenda of making racist productions while hiding behind the facade of hiring women of colour to work with white men living out their plantation fantasies

MashaAllah what you're doing is commendable @Lois Lane , but I think that things will not change until people of colour achieve the economic, and then the political clout to fashion our image image through our own media. People like you will need to continue working up the corporate media ladder in order to change the situation on the ground

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Mahacagalla said:

When the Rob Ford crack story broke the Star mentioned the dealers were Somali 20+ times in one article. They had to apologize.

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AussieHustler said:

Canadians should thank their lucky stars that Canada is out of reach for Rupert Murdoch. Otherwise, Justin Trudeau would’ve never been in power. He controls more than 70% of our print media and also owns the biggest TV cable company in Australia.

Who controls the media in Canada?

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