Okay. Story time. In Canada, we have our own media companies that fight for control of culture among themselves and against or with American companies. The big names include Bell Globemedia, CanWest Global, Shaw Communications, Rogers Communications, etc.
My ex-university, McMaster, is a very big school in medical science. One of the big things in the medical programs is that researchers do not meet with representatives of drug companies. That would effect the end research, right?
Well, the communications/media programs were sponsored by CanWest Global and they let us know it. That alone should have been warning that not all the pieces of the puzzle added up. I was also scolded in class for suggesting that the media control of compaines like CanWest Global was leading to a monopoly in the Canadian media.
But the funniest/stupidist (I can't decided which) issue came about after a presentation some person in power at CanWest Global made at the university. He apparently came out and discussed the current state of news reporting.
News has been going downhill for years. This guy (I've forgotten the name) blamed the school for turning out poor media students and blamed the students for their general lack of skills. According to him, this was what was causing CanWest Global to suffer in the news reporting department.
Hmmm... a company dumps a load of cash at a school, creates an environment where you can't speak out against the funder and then whines about the end product. Even I can do the math with that one.
And people wonder why the news media sucks this days.
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My ex-university, McMaster, is a very big school in medical science. One of the big things in the medical programs is that researchers do not meet with representatives of drug companies. That would effect the end research, right?
Well, the communications/media programs were sponsored by CanWest Global and they let us know it. That alone should have been warning that not all the pieces of the puzzle added up. I was also scolded in class for suggesting that the media control of compaines like CanWest Global was leading to a monopoly in the Canadian media.
But the funniest/stupidist (I can't decided which) issue came about after a presentation some person in power at CanWest Global made at the university. He apparently came out and discussed the current state of news reporting.
News has been going downhill for years. This guy (I've forgotten the name) blamed the school for turning out poor media students and blamed the students for their general lack of skills. According to him, this was what was causing CanWest Global to suffer in the news reporting department.
Hmmm... a company dumps a load of cash at a school, creates an environment where you can't speak out against the funder and then whines about the end product. Even I can do the math with that one.
And people wonder why the news media sucks this days.