Thank you for this post. I appreciate the question "Am I being declarative or inquisitive?". Thinking deeply is lost art. Schooling is about finishing for a grade; business and industry are about getting ahead asap... and the exhaustion created by the fast pace, overwhelming demands to produce 'widgets' is drowning everyone, all ages and stages of life, in shallow waters. I understand why Jeremy's feedback from his readers is positive. Marvellous as the human brain is, it cannot keep pace with today's culture: too much, too fast.
I favour defunding the CBC. It's ruined progressivism with its shallow advocacy, identifying indiscriminately with every conceivable form of victimhood. That's not who we are as a people, nor should we aspire to that.
Worst of all, and all the trad. media share this fault, it has no capacity for self-criticism. One rare exception demonstrates the point: a little while ago in a CBC interview about podcasting, a young and enthusiastic podcaster said bluntly that CBC should not be in the podcasting space competing with their relatively huge resources with people like him who have nowhere else to go and are sincerely trying to build something new. It was, sadly, a fleeting .0001% of the time moment.
A national news service is all we need, without advertising of any sort.
I grew up in small-town community journalism. My father worked his entire life in community newspapers, first as a Linotype operator who contributed editorial content and who covered local council meetings and later as publisher after it was sold to the Thompson monolith. They never understood community journalism, they were only interested in profit and when it stopped being profitable, they bailed. Community journalism is a public service that, at best should pay its bills and make a modest profit. It is meant to tie the community together with the idea that a nation is compromised of a collection of tightly knit communities built on mutual support. In a world run for the profit of a few, pursuing thus goal must be onerous at times. I admire this fellow’s spirit.
Love so much of what your guest says and it aligns with many of the values i aspire to in my own work in communications. Thanks for introducing me to his publication, I’m just down the road in the Bow Valley.
It posts a wide variety of short written pieces and videos about local events that aren't available on the CBC or the very thin remnants of once thriving local papers.
I'm not sure about how it's run but you might find it a worthwhile model to discuss.
After looking at Castanet, I agree. Plain aggregators and scanner-reading Facebook pages do more for local people than the "investigative" types. People need to know what's happening right here and right now, especially storms and crime.
"Investigative" journalism always defends the establishment against the peasants, and the Sprawl seems to fit the pattern..
Thank you for this post. I appreciate the question "Am I being declarative or inquisitive?". Thinking deeply is lost art. Schooling is about finishing for a grade; business and industry are about getting ahead asap... and the exhaustion created by the fast pace, overwhelming demands to produce 'widgets' is drowning everyone, all ages and stages of life, in shallow waters. I understand why Jeremy's feedback from his readers is positive. Marvellous as the human brain is, it cannot keep pace with today's culture: too much, too fast.
I too love that question. To me it speaks directly to intellectual humility.
I favour defunding the CBC. It's ruined progressivism with its shallow advocacy, identifying indiscriminately with every conceivable form of victimhood. That's not who we are as a people, nor should we aspire to that.
Worst of all, and all the trad. media share this fault, it has no capacity for self-criticism. One rare exception demonstrates the point: a little while ago in a CBC interview about podcasting, a young and enthusiastic podcaster said bluntly that CBC should not be in the podcasting space competing with their relatively huge resources with people like him who have nowhere else to go and are sincerely trying to build something new. It was, sadly, a fleeting .0001% of the time moment.
A national news service is all we need, without advertising of any sort.
Yes to slow media!
I grew up in small-town community journalism. My father worked his entire life in community newspapers, first as a Linotype operator who contributed editorial content and who covered local council meetings and later as publisher after it was sold to the Thompson monolith. They never understood community journalism, they were only interested in profit and when it stopped being profitable, they bailed. Community journalism is a public service that, at best should pay its bills and make a modest profit. It is meant to tie the community together with the idea that a nation is compromised of a collection of tightly knit communities built on mutual support. In a world run for the profit of a few, pursuing thus goal must be onerous at times. I admire this fellow’s spirit.
Love so much of what your guest says and it aligns with many of the values i aspire to in my own work in communications. Thanks for introducing me to his publication, I’m just down the road in the Bow Valley.
The local news siurce that I find richest for the small town in south-central BC is castanet.news https://www.castanet.net/
It posts a wide variety of short written pieces and videos about local events that aren't available on the CBC or the very thin remnants of once thriving local papers.
I'm not sure about how it's run but you might find it a worthwhile model to discuss.
After looking at Castanet, I agree. Plain aggregators and scanner-reading Facebook pages do more for local people than the "investigative" types. People need to know what's happening right here and right now, especially storms and crime.
"Investigative" journalism always defends the establishment against the peasants, and the Sprawl seems to fit the pattern..