Blog by John Miller

Doomed to failure

June 13th, 2019
What the federal government calls its Journalism and Written Media Independent Panel of Experts hasn’t had time to meet yet, but already there is evidence that Ottawa’s $600 million plan to help out the news industry is misguided and not likely to work. The panel is supposed to lay out the ground rules for deciding which organizations qualify for tax breaks and charitable status—measures tha ...