The media landscape has been pared down to a handful of corporate interests. The loss of local news, media, and journalism with the series of low key consolidations (and scandals) over the past few decades has been devastating for Canadian sovereignty. Now pile on Americanized social media being the defacto cultural zeitgeist. It’s been a disaster. It used to be that Canada had cultural icons that everyone could name. Now what is there?
Not even the once sacred Hockey Night in Canada was spared. It seems not many people even know this but it isn’t a CBC production anymore. It’s made by Rogers Sportsnet. CBC merely gives the timeslot to air that bland corporatized production every Saturday.
The local paper in my area stopped a long time ago. I don’t even remember when. People don’t subscribe the newspapers anymore that once wrote about local and national issues first with global issues as subsections of the paper. People don’t have cable TV anymore even though there’s really no more local content. Everyone is streaming American media.
The current generation did not grow up with local TV stations as the main broadcasters. They did not get their news from local papers. They did not have MuchMusic being the window into pop culture. They did not grow up with the powerhouse that was once CBC kids programming. Their childhoods did not revolve around shows produced by Canadian media companies like Corus or CINAR. The young generation today were given iPads and consumed American media.
Right now you have to talk to people over 30 give or take who have memory of what the Canadian news and media era even was. What we’re seeing is the fading memory of all this.
The media landscape has been pared down to a handful of corporate interests. The loss of local news, media, and journalism with the series of low key consolidations (and scandals) over the past few decades has been devastating for Canadian sovereignty. Now pile on Americanized social media being the defacto cultural zeitgeist. It’s been a disaster. It used to be that Canada had cultural icons that everyone could name. Now what is there?
Not even the once sacred Hockey Night in Canada was spared. It seems not many people even know this but it isn’t a CBC production anymore. It’s made by Rogers Sportsnet. CBC merely gives the timeslot to air that bland corporatized production every Saturday.
The local paper in my area stopped a long time ago. I don’t even remember when. People don’t subscribe the newspapers anymore that once wrote about local and national issues first with global issues as subsections of the paper. People don’t have cable TV anymore even though there’s really no more local content. Everyone is streaming American media.
The current generation did not grow up with local TV stations as the main broadcasters. They did not get their news from local papers. They did not have MuchMusic being the window into pop culture. They did not grow up with the powerhouse that was once CBC kids programming. Their childhoods did not revolve around shows produced by Canadian media companies like Corus or CINAR. The young generation today were given iPads and consumed American media.
Right now you have to talk to people over 30 give or take who have memory of what the Canadian news and media era even was. What we’re seeing is the fading memory of all this.