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

[Helios]

@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?

Fifth Estate is like our version 60 Minutes but it usually touches on 1 issue per episode. Our regular national news broadcast that the CBC does is called the National. Its just a left wing analysis of our news masquerading as centrist. Trudeau is lightly criticized unless guest panelists are brought to discuss issues.We have 2 left wing parties here the New Democrats and the Liberal Party the NDP are far left and the Liberals under Trudeau have chased them across the left side of the political spectrum. the only defining difference today is that the Liberals are an establishment elitist party and the NDP are grassroots. Our Conservative party is a centre to rightwing establishment elitist party but we have some grassroots right wingers in there too.

 

[Crow]

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.

Person of colour iyo code kulaha.

Blah blah blah.

 

[Mahacagalla]

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

 

[Mahacagalla]

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

So true about Vice

 

[Shmurda]

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

I mean its Dixon did you really expect people to think it was anyone other than somalis

 

[Apollo]

@Factz check this out.

 

[Western4Life]

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?

Almost all newspapers in Canada are conservative and are owned by Postmedia (foreign owners).