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Canadian News Media

Deciding whether or not the news media serves the public interest in Canada requires a degree of consensus on the meaning of the public interest. We can take it that the public interest in a democratic society can be defined at a minimum in terms of informing the public sufficiently so the citizenry can make informed choices at the ballot box. Based on this view, we can say that the news media overall does a poor job of protecting the public interest, though print journalism does a better job than electronic journalism.

The Canadian media is much affected by its proximity to the American media, and one of the responses to this has been the development of government solutions to the struggle to maintain Canada's economic and cultural integrity. The government thus takes a strong protective stance and intervenes in the affairs of the media. While this might seem a situation leading to a reduction in the ability of the media to serve the public, since a democratic media should not be too tightly controlled by the government entity on which it reports, the situation may be less problematic than that given the fact that newspapers have "been left generally untouched by the mixed blessings of government involvement in their affairs" (Osler 164) and because newspapers are linked more directly with news and public affairs (Osler 165).

This issue has been much analyzed in the American press because of concerns that the news media is not serving the public interest at all. As W. Lance Bennett points out in his book News: The Politics of Illusion, Americans today are awash in news from newspapers, publications of every variety, books, broadcast television stations, radio stations, and cable, including 24-hour cable new outlets such as CNN, C-Span, and CNN Headline News. Yet, the question is raised as to how trustworthy all this news is and especially as to how true a picture of society is presented in these many news broadcasts. ...

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Canadian News Media. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 19:45, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1701156.html