Ep. 177: Mainstream Media and Its Fight For Relevance

Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Harold Munro, Vancouver Sun

Mainstream media is under attack.

While Donald Trump make be the loudest voice in the assault, he is not the most effective. That honour goes to Google and Facebook and Twitter and, and, and...

The impact of social media and search engines on advertising revenues is gutting mainstream media. There are more news outlets today and fewer journalists. More press releases and less reporting. Consolidation, generic mastheads along with cut and paste, mean politicians and public figures are getting a free pass.

The role of the media as a watchdog, an early warning system, is in jeopardy as budgets shrink. But journalists are innovative, finding new ways of keeping public figures and institutions accountable.

In the fifth installment of our series on Democracy and The Media, we invited Harold Munro, the Editor-in-Chief of the Vancouver Sun, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the role of mainstream media in a democracy.

 
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