Google And Facebook To The Rescue: Canadian News Gets On Big Tech’s Payroll
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Is Media a Bail Out for Poorly Run Companies?
In two thousand and 20, when the medium bail out kicked in and the big checks started flowing to newspapers. The government paid qualifying news organizations, almost all of them newspapers, arrears,. retroactive salary subsidies going back to the start of two thousand and 19. When the pendemic hit, the promised immediate aid in the form of tens of millions of dollars for adverts by federal and provincial governments did not materialize. In may two thousand and 21, the globe and mail launched a podcast about daily canadian news. How do i know that they were trying to make their own version of canada land? I don't think there is any perfect solution. But some of us risked
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