Wanda Orion

2015-05-06 08:30:05 -0400

It’s pretty obvious that those editorials all came from the same place and it wasn’t in Alberta and no question that the big media has exerted an inordinate amount of influence over the political sphere. It’s influence, however, is waning. The results of the Alberta election prove that beyond a doubt. It’s not the the Sun’s editorials put people off of the PC’s. It’s that no one read them and no one cared what the Sun had to say. It used to be that newspapers proudly displayed their circulation numbers. I’m not sure they do that any more and if they do, how those numbers have changed over the past 20 years or so. I’m sure they’ve declined steeply. I predict that in about 5 years we will see the demise of much of the print media. A few major international publications will survive but their readership will be a smaller niche-like group. The major dailies will concentrate on their online publications but even those will struggle as they have little to offer except the opinions of their their owners and editorial boards, often masquerading as news. The digital age means the readers can move on and they’re doing just that.

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