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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by ipaddr on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:04PM (#28812781)
In Canada media is controlled by a handful of private companies who are well connected to political factions. The public broadcaster while generally left tries to stay neutral. Small publications are ignored and usually shutout to the point of them needing to sue to ask a question.

Private or public if the media is controlled by a small club of wealthy and/or connected players you have an unhealthy and not very free press.

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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by sangnoir on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:32PM (#28813487)
The public broadcaster is "left" by US standards, but is pretty much bang in the center for the rest of the Anglophone countries.
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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by ipaddr on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:29PM (#28814650)
It would be considered left by the Anglophone community in Canada but not necessarily left by Canada as a whole because Canada is an Anglophone/Francophone country with Anglophone majority with a strong Francophone minority.
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