[jeffbee]

PostMedia is itself owned by Chatham Asset Management, an American private equity firm that also owns dozen of U.S. newspapers.

[cscurmudgeon]

Ah, a perfect exemplar of the kind of independent journalism free from corporate influence as stated in the bill.

> Act provides that any such agreements must not allow the freedom of expression and journalistic independence enjoyed by news outlets to be undermined by corporate influence.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_...

[kspacewalk2]

Journalists, as well as "journalists", are going to get paid one way or another. If it's not subscriptions or ad revenue, it'll be in some other form.

[brightlancer]

> Journalists, as well as "journalists", are going to get paid one way or another.

Says who?

Lots of journalists have been laid off in the past decade because of media consolidation -- some of them found other jobs or went independent, but most had to find another field because _the money isn't there_.

The media companies will get paid one way or another, but the companies are not journalists.

[cscurmudgeon]

Yep, even if that includes regulatory/gov capture like we see here in Canada.