Well this is an interesting twist. Bell just bought CTV. What happens when a large corporation buys a newspaper or TV station? Does it get free advertising? Does it refuse to run the competitors ads? Does it refuse to run Union adds? Pandora's box has just been opened.
We have been discussing how the media is biased depending on who owns the media outlet. We've recently talked about Fox News' bias and how Stephen Harper is hoping to pave the way for Karl Pierre Peladeau to create a Fox News North in Canada.
We've also recently discussed how Darren Entwistle expressed his fear over Shaw buying Canwest Global. Shaw is TELUS' competitor. Bell is not. Darren sent a few of his buddies over to Bell in hopes for a merger which was blocked but is still on the table.
Either way, his buddies are still there so they still team up on bullying the consumer. Bell fears Shaw too. George Cope is the CEO of Bell. He was the CEO of TELUS Moblility. We went to Bell in Darren's anticipation of a merger with them.
So what happens? Shaw buys Canwest, Darren panics and gets Bell to buy CTV. Yet the whole thing smells dirty. How can we let big corporations control the news? It's shameful. Tiny corners of the Internet where people can blog with free speech will be the only places to find alternate views from the big corporations and likely the only place to find anything that closely resembles the truth. Propaganda: the new world order.
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