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Post journalism is a phrase I hadn't previously heard. But in this article Martin Gurri uses the once venerable New York Times as an example of the new 'post journalism' newspaper, one set up not to provide news but to reinforce ideological beliefs, a sort of club for people with similar views. The Times now focuses less on truth and more on activism and the political agenda of the Left. Why? Because it's more profitable. Led by the New York Times, a few prominent brand names moved to a model that sought to squeeze revenue from digital subscribers lured behind a paywall. This approach carried its own risks. The amount of information in the world was, for practical purposes, infinite. As supply vastly outstripped demand, the news now chased the reader, rather than the other way around. Today, nobody under 85 would look for news in a newspaper. Under such circumstances, what commodity could be offered for sale? During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Times stumbled onto a possible answer. It entailed a wrenching pivot from a journalism of fact to a “post-journalism” of opinion—a term coined, in his book of that title, by media scholar Andrey Mir. Rather than news, the paper began to sell what was, in effect, a creed, an agenda, to a congregation of like-minded souls. Post-journalism “mixes open ideological intentions with a hidden business necessity required for the media to survive,” Mir observes. The new business model required a new style of reporting. Its language aimed to commodify polarization and threat: journalists had to “scare the audience to make it donate.” At stake was survival in the digital storm. https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-reporting

Canada has the highest unemployment rate among the G7, a slow vaccine rollout, and a massive deficit. So, of course, it's time to increase immigration again! The government plans to bring over 400,000 this year, because, they say, they will help the recovery. Only there's no evidence of that. Furthermore, they're greatly lowering the requirements, which will bring in much less skilled workers, who, according to their own figures, perform much worse and rarely earn enough money to even be paying income taxes. “It makes no sense,” says University of Waterloo economist Mikal Skuterud, who specializes in Canadian immigration and the labour market. An immigrant himself, Skuterud is joining other economists in questioning why Ottawa has officially claimed its elevated targets are “crucial to Canada’s short-term recovery.” Even though Skuterud strongly advocates immigration, particularly for humanitarian reasons, he wonders why the Liberals this month drastically lowered the standards for the skills expected of those looking to become Canadian citizens through the country’s economic-class express-entry program. “As an economist who has studied Canadian immigration for more than two decades, I struggle to understand how increasing immigrant entries in the midst of an economic crisis with historically high and rising levels of joblessness will aid our short-term economic recovery,” he said. “It is unusual for countries to significantly increase immigration levels during recessions, for good reason.” “I continue to be baffled at how the ‘increased immigration is crucial for Canada’s economic survival’ narrative has taken hold of our policy discourse. I challenge anyone to find me an academic economist that studies Canadian immigration who believes this narrative,” Skuterud said. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-economists-question-decision-to-boost-immigration-during-pandemic

we went down that road with Eric Nielsen. He found 1100 departments and programmes that spent money. The bureaucrats showed us who was actually runnung the country and he was gone overnight. To this day unions talk about being "Nielsenized"..i.e. being found that they really serve no purpose...except their own.

Do you mean 'open and transparent government' ? We already have that . . .

It certainly would make things easier if we just base things entirely on class, instead of race as we have done up until now. What an unfair world we have made.

Yet they remain safe at liquor stores. One should not need a god... here is your liquor.

While the west is squandering it's resources and wealth on fighting the hoax of man-made climate change, Russia and China are building military power which will rival or push them ahead of America and west. Get the book Alliance of Evil. Let's not forget it was the U.N. which is largely controlled by Communist countries which forced this global warming agenda on the west.

I have learned to trust myself not heath professionals. I posted here on this forum asking authorities to close borders immediately in early or mid February 2020 but of course they eventually did exact same thing months after the damn virus was well established here. I posted in April that everyone should be wearing masks and of course authorities then were advising against. I posted here a month ago as what on earth is taking Health Canada so long to approve AstraZeneca when it has been used massively elsewhere and eventually they did exact that a month later.

To those who say this man is a Trumptard- read it and weep. Now you know.