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Gladu says local media need immediate help to survive pandemic – BlackburnNews.com
Gladu says local media need immediate help to survive pandemic
September 4, 2020 1:02pm
Sarnia-Lambton’s MP says government has a role to play in helping smaller market radio and TV stations stay viable during the pandemic.
Marilyn Gladu pledged to advocate for Canadian media companies in response to a recent report that indicated as many as 200 private radio stations could close over the next two years.
The Communications Management Inc. (CMI) report said up to 2,000 jobs would be lost.
Gladu said community radio and television stations and newspapers are incredibly important and can’t be lost.
“The local news is incredibly valuable, where else are we going to hear about the local heroes stories, or what are the needs locally?” asked Gladu. “These are things that people tune into every day and learn about what’s going on in the community, and that would be totally lost if we went to something that was nationalized or didn’t have that local content.”
Gladu said immediate additional assistance is needed similar to the business loan and wage subsidy models because advertising revenues dry up when businesses are in distress.
“Absolutely, I think that we’ve seen that we’re not going to recover overnight from what’s happened under COVID, and I think that local radio stations and newspapers are equal victims in that, the same as small businesses that are having difficulty,” she said.
The MP also said the CMI report’s call for regulatory relief is timely. She noted the Conservative party’s new leader Erin O’Toole has ideas to modernize the media industry and create a level playing field.
Gladu said the Liberal government has significantly increased funding to the CBC which competes with and puts more pressure on the private sector.
She said a competitive landscape needs to be created while maintaining the independence of media, free of political interference.
The full CMI report can be found here.
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Jon Stewart Slams the Media for Coverage of Trump Trial – The New York Times
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Jon Stewart rips media over coverage of ‘banal’ Trump trial details – The Hill
Jon Stewart blasted the media for covering the “banal” details of former President Trump’s first of four criminal trials, which began with opening statements Monday following a week of jury selection.
In his Monday night broadcast of “The Daily Show,” Stewart poked fun at the TV news media for tracking Trump’s traffic route from Trump Tower to the courtroom, compiling footage from various outlets, as they tracked each turn his car made.
“Seriously, are we going to follow this guy to court every f‑‑‑ing day? Are you trying to make this O.J. [Simpson]? It’s not a chase. He’s commuting,” Stewart said. “So the media’s first attempt — the very first attempt on the first day — at self-control failed.”
Media outlets have closely covered Trump in recent days, as he makes history as the first U.S. president to stand trial on criminal charges. Trump is also the presumptive GOP nominee for president this year.
Trump currently faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in connection to reimbursements to his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 ahead of the 2016 election to stay quiet about an alleged affair she had with the former president a decade prior. It is the first of four criminal trials Trump will face, and perhaps the only one that will go to a jury before the November election.
Stewart, in his broadcast, took aim at TV news outlets, suggesting they were covering small news alerts as significant breaking news developments.
Stewart pretended a producer was talking in his earpiece and paused midsentence, saying, “Hold on. We’re getting breaking news,” and cut to a clip from an earlier interview conducted by CNN’s Jake Tapper, who similarly cut off his guest momentarily to identify a photo displayed on screen to his audience.
“I’m sorry to interrupt. Just for one second. I apologize,” Tapper said in the clip. “We’re just showing the first image of Donald Trump from inside the courtroom. It’s a still photograph that we’re showing there. Just want to make sure our viewers know what they’re looking at.”
Stewart shot back, saying, “Yes, for our viewers who are just waking up from a 30-year coma, this is what Donald Trump has looked like every day for the past 30 years. Same outfit.”
Stewart ripped CNN again for analyzing the courtroom sketches so closely, saying, “It’s a sketch. Why would anyone analyze a sketch like it was — it’d be like looking at the Last Supper and going, ‘Why do you think Jesus looks so sad here? What do you think? It’s because of Judas?’”
“Look, at some point in this trial, something important and revelatory is going to happen,” Stewart said. “But none of us are going to notice, because of the hours spent on his speculative facial ticks. If the media tries to make us feel like the most mundane bullshit is earth-shattering, we won’t believe you when it’s really interesting.”
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