For-profit media ownership has decimated journalism in Canada and continues to gouge us with some of the highest prices in the world for telecommunications services such as cellular phones, cable TV and Internet access. The private equity players and US hedge funds that own most of our largest newspapers are now harvesting them for hundreds of millions in cash.
Ever since news operations became professional in their approach to journalism, from World War II on, Americans have taken for granted the ease with which they can be informed and