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Cathie Reid's avatar

I’m a concerned global citizen in Canada who tries to do deep dives on world issue causes/solutions that impact a sustainable, just economy. The media landscape/accessibility of factual and insightful information came into sharp focus to me prior to our 2015 election when Postmedia purchased 300 Canadian media properties. Journalists slashed, more paid editorial “comment” passing as reporting and no progressive voice left in MSM primarily hedge fund/Conservative owned landscape. New journalistic properties necessarily requiring paywalls that a fact starved public increasingly can’t afford (due to decrease in disposable income that Conservative/inflationary policies effect).

So, meeting people “where they are” now requires journalists to move into evolving technical platforms…that has led this old lady into having to expand my search to find published and podcast material on Substack, Bluesky and Threads.

There will be a lot of older voters who will stay in silos and fail to keep up…and there will be many low information voters who cannot afford time/money to find out …what they don’t know (and how to stave off propaganda). The autocrat/oligarch messengers will be well funded to continually confuse us and buy policy that makes it harder to amplify and descern truth.

Glad I stumbled on your writing.

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W.J. Gallo's avatar

Funny how I've been sitting on a Naomi Klein book for like 3 months now. Distraction is a new way of life and getting news updates on my phone occupy way too much time. The distraction is constant throughout the day. No wonder so many younger folks have no clarity on real issues and what political policy actually means. I am more pessimistic now (could be an age thing since I'm 65). I don't know how we can maintain or regain Democracy in this current state of misinformation. It might be impossible.

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