JOUR 1001 Lecture : Class 9

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Allan Thompson

Document Summary

Mike gasher (concordia) looks at tension between public service ethos and the commercial imperative: we"re not living in a state run media environment where making money is less important, drift toward journalism being treated more as a business, imperative business decisions as opposed to journalistic aspects, news is a commodity, monopoly capitalism that is the reality of the canadian journalistic environment, argues that the real innovation, the future of journalism is coming more from individual journalists who are trying to use the new tools available to innovate, not big corporations losing audience and advertisers while shrinking their newsrooms. The kent commission 1981: echoed joseph howe talking about the value of the unshackled press as a legacy, to him, the shackles were the business imperative dramatic impact on journalism, concern about concentrated ownership, media conglomerates which in his view produced poor newspapers.