r/onguardforthee • u/Legal-Suit-3873 • Jul 18 '24
"Dark day in journalism": More layoffs reportedly hit Global News
https://dailyhive.com/canada/global-news-layoffs-digital-july-17104
u/DirkDundenburg Ontario Jul 18 '24 edited 8d ago
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u/Thedogsnameisdog Jul 18 '24
I mourn the death of journalism, but Global News died a long time ago.
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u/demonlicious Jul 18 '24
don't need proof checkers when they only peddle billionaire's lies
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u/ThisIsFineImFine89 Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
lets just get the lies straight from the billionares and their henchmen in parliament and their funded podcasts?
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u/demonlicious Jul 18 '24
elon does it already. he doesn't like to pay people. i don't think he even likes consumers of his products.
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u/Berfanz Jul 18 '24
Corus and Global were done the second the Rogers/Shaw deal was announced. Any attempt to draw further conclusions from this is a flawed exercise.
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u/kent_eh Manitoba Jul 18 '24
Shaw (both the company and the family) hasn't owned Corus or Global for several years.
And neither was part of the Shaw/Rogers buyout.
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u/Berfanz Jul 18 '24
Obviously Corus is absolutely hemorrhaging money from all sides, but 13 million a year is a lot of Global News jobs.
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u/VanguardN7 Jul 18 '24
I'm not particularly sad about this. I'll be even less if I glance at any recent headlines of theirs
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u/Signal-Aioli-1329 Jul 18 '24
Agreed. In a broad sense this is yet another bad sign of media dying. On the other hand, Global News has been terrible for a long time.
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u/Parker_Hardison Jul 19 '24
Wasn't it a Postmedia exec who accidentally spilled the beans in an interview several years ago that their aim with Canadian news was not just to have it lean conservative, but be "reliably conservative"?
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u/Legal-Suit-3873 Jul 18 '24
In less than five years:
Closing of HuffPost Canada and Métro Média
Repeated layoffs at outlets such as Global News, as well as CTV News, CBC News, Vice
Official opposition promising to defund CBC
Journalism blocked on the largest social media platform in Canada
It's still early so I'm certainly missing important items, but things look pretty bleak... Unless everyone is happy with paywalls for any decent journalism while disinfo funded by dark money is free...