[stackghost]

Monoculture in journalism definitely matters. News media has a profound ability to shape and direct the discourse in society writ large, and the slow consolidation of news media in some countries is extremely problematic because it enables private individuals to exert undue influence in pursuit of their agenda that may or may not be at odds with the public interest.

In Canada, for example, it's hard to throw a stone and not hit a foreign-owned PostMedia news outlet.

[VancouverMan]

I don't particularly care who owns such outlets.

What matters to me is the validity of the content being produced, regardless of who produces it. If foreign-owned outlets do a better job than locally-owned outlets at providing factual, complete, and as-objective-as-possible reporting, that's fine with me.

When I consider events or situations I've had direct knowledge of, or where I've had access to direct witness accounts and raw footage that I trust, some of the worst reporting in my opinion has been from CBC News. With CBC being a Crown corporation, CBC News could perhaps be considered the most inherently "Canadian-owned" of the mainstream news outlets.

On the other hand, for such situations, I've generally found reporting from Postmedia's various outlets to be among the most accurate, complete, and objective of that from the mainstream outlets, even if it may be considered foreign-owned.

[stackghost]

>What matters to me is the validity of the content being produced, regardless of who produces it. If foreign-owned outlets do a better job than locally-owned outlets at providing factual, complete, and as-objective-as-possible reporting, that's fine with me.

As we've seen time and time again, the content produced is only "valid" if your personal interests happen to align with those of Rupert Murdoch, or whomever.

CBC definitely has its own problems but being beholden to the biases of the billionaire class isn't one of them.

[hindsightbias]

> slow consolidation

Move slow, break countries.