According to a recent report, the Trudeau government is busy bribing newspapers ahead of an upcoming federal election. Thanks to a "media bailout" the Toronto Star, self-described as a progressive media company, looks to receive $115,000 per week from the Trudeau administration. The Star previously endorsed Trudeau in 2015.
This may be peak political corruption. Some might think that government-run propaganda, something like the Ministry of Truth in 1984's Oceana or North Korea's state propaganda, is even more corrupt. But there is something transparent about a government printing lies that favor the government. Everyone knows what's going on. But paying off the "free press" to print propaganda brings an air of plausible deniability. Much of the electorate is either too simplistic to realize they are reading state-sponsored propaganda, or too corrupted by political bias to admit it. Noam Chomsky wrote a very successful book a few decades on the premise that a corrupt "free press" is more effective propaganda than state-owned propaganda, but his liberal brethren today dismiss such talk as conspiracy theory.
Many of us on the hard right have held out hope that, while we are being squeezed out of mainstream media, those outlets in a dying industry will soon succumb to economic reality. However, it should be clear that once liberals achieve power, they will begin directly propping up the corporate media directly with our own tax dollars. The message to Canadian conservatives should be very clear: they will not be allowed to partake in a peaceful debate of ideas.
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