Some of the bought & paid for media

[mariomike]

There were tens of thousands of people then with really stupid ideas but fortunately their ability to disseminate their ramblings was limited to very small mailing lists. get worse from here.

Now they have the internet.

But, one can always change that channel, and watch and listen to the TV and radio shows you enjoy.

Read library books. Subscribe or cancel newspapers and magazines.

You didn't have to put up with it at work,

Prohibited Political Activities (§ 192-24).
A City employee will not:
 Use City resources, including facilities, equipment or supplies while engaging
in political activity.
 Engage in political activity during working hours.
 Engage in political activity while wearing City uniform.
 Wear clothing or buttons that advertise any candidate, political party or referendum issue while at work or while wearing a City uniform.
 Use their title or position within the City in a way that would lead a member
of the public to infer that the City is endorsing a candidate, political party or a
particular response to a referendum question.

Or in your neighborhood.

QUOTE

For municipal elections, election signs can be displayed 25 days prior to election day.

For provincial and federal elections, election signs can be displayed from the day the writ of election is issued.

When the day the writ of election is issued falls on a date of religious or cultural significance, election signs cannot be displayed until the following day.

Election signs must be removed 72 hours after the completion of voting on election day.

END QUOTE

 

[The Bread Guy]

And that is why most radio stations manage to give you a 5 minutes news bulletin on the hour that covers just about all you need to know is happening in the world: Just facts written down in advance to be pithy, read by a single announcer.

Then you can go back to what matters ... music, horoscope and which cream to use for nighttime healthy skin.

A five-minute newscast these days is HUGE on most (esp. private sector) radio stations - 5 minutes may include sports & weather as well. I hear more like 2-3 minutes in many cases. At a typical reading speed, if there's no audio clip of a newsmaker, that's between 300 and 525 words to cover the top, say, 3-5 stories of the hour. Not much nuance to be had in 100 to 175 words dealing with sometimes-complex stories.

Also, factor in the fact that most people are only 1/2 listening to the radio most of the time (often as part of background noise, as opposed to sitting down to listen to it like listening to a podcast - look at me mixing media eras).

Even before click baiting, this is one reason journalists are typically taught to put the most important, ear-catching information into the lead of the story. Even in the old days, "if it bleeds, it leads," so bad/spectacular news drawing the ear/eye isn't a new phenomenon.

 

[Rifleman62]

LILLEY UNLEASHED: Biased media show their hand against Poilievre​

 

[lenaitch]

"These are so accurate and so smart, if you fire one, it'll find Elvis for you.". 5 seconds,

I suppose that's the value of information management training. To me, a more pointed statement would have been 'It'll find Jimmy Hoffa for you' without realizing that would likely have been met with blank stares and crickets.

 

[lenaitch]

Now they have the internet.

But, one can always change that channel, and watch and listen to the TV and radio shows you enjoy.

Read library books. Subscribe or cancel newspapers and magazines.

You didn't have to put up with it at work,

Prohibited Political Activities (§ 192-24).
A City employee will not:
 Use City resources, including facilities, equipment or supplies while engaging
in political activity.
 Engage in political activity during working hours.
 Engage in political activity while wearing City uniform.
 Wear clothing or buttons that advertise any candidate, political party or referendum issue while at work or while wearing a City uniform.
 Use their title or position within the City in a way that would lead a member
of the public to infer that the City is endorsing a candidate, political party or a
particular response to a referendum question.

Or in your neighborhood.

QUOTE

For municipal elections, election signs can be displayed 25 days prior to election day.

For provincial and federal elections, election signs can be displayed from the day the writ of election is issued.

When the day the writ of election is issued falls on a date of religious or cultural significance, election signs cannot be displayed until the following day.

Election signs must be removed 72 hours after the completion of voting on election day.

END QUOTE

Back in the day, the Police Act of Ontario (which preceded both the Police Services Act and Charter) forbade us from having a election sign on our properties or doing anything of a political or partisan nature, on or off duty.

 

[PMedMoe]

LILLEY UNLEASHED: Biased media show their hand against Poilievre​

The Sun calling other media biased is kind of ironic.

 

[OldSolduer]

I suppose that's the value of information management training. To me, a more pointed statement would have been 'It'll find Jimmy Hoffa for you' without realizing that would likely have been met with blank stares and crickets.

You found Jimmy Hoffa??

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Listening to radio jocks yesterday lamenting their job as PR reps are about to be wiped out by ChatGPT/AI bots. Seems there is software out there, small companies can use to build a virtual employee to act as the face of the company or as a IT assistant.

 

[mariomike]

Back in the day, the Police Act of Ontario (which preceded both the Police Services Act and Charter) forbade us from having a election sign on our properties or doing anything of a political or partisan nature, on or off duty.

They never cared if we put a sign on our lawn - for a couple of weeks during an election.

Other than that, if really into politics,

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/97ff-Chapter_192_Toronto_Municipal_Code_Article_V_Political_Activity.pdf

 

[Fishbone Jones]

You found Jimmy Hoffa??

Nobody is going to find Jimbo.

 

[The Bread Guy]

MOAR "restructuring" ...

Bell Media ends some CTV newscasts, sells radio stations in media shakeup amid layoffs

Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

www.ctvnews.ca

Bell announces thousands of layoffs in largest restructuring in 30 years

Nearly 5,000 Bell employees are soon to be out of a job as the telecom and media giant moves to lay off nine per cent of its staff. Bell Canada Ent...

www.blogto.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-cuts-1.7108658

 

[Halifax Tar]

MOAR "restructuring" ...

Bell Media ends some CTV newscasts, sells radio stations in media shakeup amid layoffs

Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

www.ctvnews.ca

Bell announces thousands of layoffs in largest restructuring in 30 years

Nearly 5,000 Bell employees are soon to be out of a job as the telecom and media giant moves to lay off nine per cent of its staff. Bell Canada Ent...

www.blogto.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-cuts-1.7108658

No sympathy. See ya!

 

[Remius]

Interesting. A lot of those local bell media stations lean conservative. The music ones meh, but the talk radio ones carried some interesting views.

 

[OldSolduer]

Interesting. A lot of those local bell media stations lean conservative. The music ones meh, but the talk radio ones carried some interesting views.

Ironic how Bell blabs on about mental health

 

[Remius]

Ironic how Bell blabs on about mental health

And how they recorded 385million in profits this quarter…

 

[The Bread Guy]

Ironic how Bell blabs on about mental health

Yeah, some on the socials have noted this, too ....

 

[RangerRay]

So does this mean Bell will be returning all that loot it received in news subsidies/bribes/blackmail to Google and the Federal government? Surely with the whopping profits they have, it wouldn’t be a hard lift for them.

The hollowing out of journalism in this country continues.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Sure would be nice to see some of those whopping profits. Share prices are still down across the major telcos, which suggests the shares aren't relatively attractive to buyers right now, which suggests the whopping profits are going elsewhere - re-invested in the business, employee compensation, covering past borrowing, being set aside for contingencies because they expect things to get even tighter.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Premier of British Columbia challenges greedy Waystar Royco, then asks somebody else to disallow corporate decision making:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1755715851075150038

Logan Roy responds:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Interesting. A lot of those local bell media stations lean conservative. The music ones meh, but the talk radio ones carried some interesting views.

Problem is that the large media companies had bought out all those local stations, likley ran them into the ground to support the corporate HQ and now there is no juice left to squeeze, they get tossed away. Hopefully some of the locals can restart them as pure local stations.