The Postmedia effect : how vulture capitalism is wrecking our news
Record details
- ISBN: 1554201977
- ISBN: 9781554201976
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Physical Description:
xvi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : New Star Books, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index (pages 265-271). |
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Subject: | Mass media -- Economic aspects -- Canada Press -- Economic aspects -- Canada Journalism -- Economic aspects -- Canada |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | PN 4909 E34 2023 (Text) | B001708882 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
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New from Marc Edge, author of Asper Nation, Greatly Exaggerated, and THE NEWS WE DESERVE.
Even as their readers move onñline and their advertisers look elsewhere, daily newspapers continue to be our main source of information, shaping citizens' understanding of the world, and their reactions to events. At the same time, continuing a longñterm trend in media ownership, newsrooms have been gutted as new owners prioritize doubleñdigit profit margins. Dwindling reporting staff is able to do less and less actual reporting, as they become more and more reliant on official releases and carefully tailored public relations handouts.
In THE POSTMEDIA EFFECT, Marc Edge takes Canada's dominant newspaper chain, Postmedia, as a case study laying bare the changes in news economics that over the past two generations have hollowed out the nation's newsrooms, undermining not just citizens' trust in what is reported to them, but the very foundations of a democracy steered by an informed electorate.
Literary Nonfiction.