Daniel Goodwin

It has been said that we get the government we deserve. The same is true of the news. For two decades, the media has been battered by successive waves of technological and societal change. As a result, the media is smaller, weaker and less capable of doing its essential job. Bell’s recent decision to lay off 1,300 employees and sell or shutter nine radio stations was but the latest instalment in the ongoing reality show starring the disappearance of the news media. Read More