CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Scandal, Winnipeg Free Press, Shill

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Alexandre Sevigny

Document Summary

Alex s vigny, phd, apr, mcipr (winter term, 2013) Itc c. dornan: printed matter: canadian newspapers . Itc m. bowden: the story behind the story . Started with the hamilton spectator, then the ottawa citizen, What bothers critics is that local near-monopolies are owned by corporate entities, leaving citizens with little alternative as a source of social intelligence. The fear is that partisan control over public expression would amount to control over public opinion and therefore to control over the political process itself. The special senate committee on the mass media (the davey. Committee) in 1970 was concerned about concentration in newspaper ownership. From the 1980s to the 90s, industry grew: sun media entered. Southam s markets, the globe and mail satellite-printed its national edition, the urban broadsheets began to publish on. Sundays, and the financial post went from a weekly to a daily (the national post).