Politicians guiding journalism? No, thanks
If there's a fund for good journalism, the Liberals should appoint Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative MP who was in charge of election rules in the last Parliament, to run it. And if they're not comfortable doing that, there should be no fund, because one day, after some future election, somebody like Pierre Poilievre will run it anyway.
Here's what happened to newspapers.
In the early 1990s, I worked at the Gazette in Montreal. In those days, on a Saturday you'd pick up your Gazette, shake five sections of classified advertising and home and car ads onto the floor, and go straight to the City pages, which feature...
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