(Selective) Support For Local Media

Over at The Sasquatch, editor Jenn Ruddy has a good editorial on politicians championing corporate media outlets like CTV when other news organizations are struggling. You can read it here.

I agree with Ruddy's point: this lining-up behind CanWest and CTV is irritating. While Brad Wall pleads on CTV's behalf, CBC is being starved by government (Friends Of Canadian Broadcasting). And locally-published Briarpatch, the parent magazine of The Sasquatch, faces cuts to its funding (StarPhoenix).

Where's their shout-outs from the Premier?

Sure, we need local CTV. But we need local CBC too. And we need Briarpatch and The Sasquatch and Planet S and prairie dog and the Leader-Post. You don't get a full perspective on the place we live in from one news outlet.

Our politicians need to remember that.