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Mass media in crisis, so is journalism
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
6 August 2012
“Instead of using technology to bridge the communications gap between voters in their communities and the media, the media have used it to turn their backs on the public, forging closer links with the people reporters cover rather than with the people who used to read, watch, and listen to their reporting.”… there is a “gulf” between Canadians, on one side, and politicians and the media, on the other. “The media have come to identify more closely with politicians than with the public,” Mr. Waddell writes.
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