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If they’re going to be internationally owned, they should have to have a heading of the top of articles when the bias is made away from Canadian interests. We should have choice of news, we should also know where the bias in the reporting is coming from when it’s not Canadian owned.
Similar to a site like ground news that shows the way articles lean and from which publishers.
ive been saying this for years.
we need a bias label, and an ownership label, on the front of every newspaper and published story or "opinion piece article". we need to know who owns what, and where they come from, and why they own it in the first place, and what their ties are. not a nice little bow on the end that say "the author, larry smith owns a dog and a cat in new york and is married, the end" but completely leaves out the part where "larry smith" donated to the proud boy movement and has been known to spread misinformation.
disclaimers on things like cigarettes and alcohol make sense, so does this. if something can cause harm, we should know about it before we even get involved with it.
I think this is part of a larger issue, in which people, even a lot of journalists I know, see news media as this bastion of neutrality and facts. It's a noble goal, which I do think journalists should pursue, but in reality any news publication will have biases. Even just which news you decide to highlight can bring up bias, let alone the actual things you write about the news.
Things would be a lot better if every journalist, whether right-wing, left-wing, or centrist, were upfront about their views and how the environment they're in shapes them. Bias is unavoidable, but being upfront about your biases can at least properly frame your views.