23 Days Left Before Google Pulls the Plug and Reality Begins Setting in for Small Media Outlets
December 19th is fast approaching and small media outlets are realizing just how much the Canadian government screwed them over.
December 19th is fast approaching and small media outlets are realizing just how much the Canadian government screwed them over.
A Village Media outlet conducted an interview with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. The Online News Act came up.
One of the responses to the dropping of news links is talk of massive bailouts. The sustainability of that is questionable.
Bill C-18: Why News Media Bailouts is Not Exactly Going to “Save” Journalism Read More »
For some users, Facebook has begun blocking news links in response to Bill C-18. It is being described as the news link apocalypse.
News Links Blocking Appears to Have Begun on Facebook Read More »
Mainstream media demonizing social media is nothing new in North America. Dylan Page shows that this problem goes much further.
Corporate influence on news coverage is already here. CTV was told to avoid negative coverage of Bell.
CTV Told to Avoid Negative Coverage of Parent Company Bell Read More »
Throughout the Bill C-18 debate, supporters have sold the bill as a cure-all solution to a lot of problems. Well, not so much.
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The Canadian government in pushing Bill C-18 insists that news links blocks is just a bluff. Publishers, however, don’t think so.
Bill C-18: Media Increasingly Admit That the News Links Block Might Not Be a Bluff Read More »
Mainstream media took another credibility hit in the Bill C-18 debate when one article accused internet startups of being “questionable”.
An amendment to Bill C-18 (Link Tax) means that producing news is now optional. This as smaller players are left out.