Reading through parts of that made me cringe.
Media bias and ownership issues can be quite complex, but if you spend endless time harping on "media ownership" as some sort of root cause, I think you're lost me.
Yes, corporations own most of Canada's media.... our biggest broadcast network is CTV, our newspapers are privately owned, etc.
I think there are a couple of differences though:
- Canadian society (as a whole) is further to the political left than the United States. This means that the media owners, workers, etc. are probably going to take a more liberal view in the news coverage (partly because that's probably what the audience wants, partly because of their own preferences)
- We have the CBC here (a.k.a. the mother-corp, which is a publicly owned broadcaster). Its not the most popular network, but its still more significant (relative to the size of our population) than things like NPR and PBS are in the United States
- Corporations may own our media here, but ultimately the owner is the 'shareholder' (i.e. no single owner controlling things.). We don't seem to have the equivalent of a Rupert Murdoch here, who is able to almost single-handedly influence public discourse through near complete control of media outlets like Fox News. (We did have Conrad Black, who had significant influence here in Canada, but he has been out of the publishing business for years)
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