Roasting the Press Episode 44 for Sunday, October 20th, 2024
More on the 2024 Freedom Forum Listing of Important & Influential New Media Outlets, CTV Publishes Advertising Pretending to be News & "About Totalitarianism."
The 2024 Freedom Forum Listing of Important & Influential New Media
Freedom Forum has been posting stories since October 2023 and our biggest initial success was the December 27th, 2023 post, “The 2024 Freedom Forum Listing of Important and Influential Canadian "NEW" Media.”
It contained over 50 examples of Canadian new media outlets which covered news better than most traditional legacy outlets. At the time, we noted that, “While the legacy media is well represented in marketing databases, there’s not a lot of places to go for lists of alternative “new media” publications.”
We felt that the absence of independent media contacts in marketing databases put new media outlets at a competitive disadvantage when compared to traditional media outlets like Global, CTV and the Globe and Mail which were set up specifically to solicit retail advertising a part of their core business model.
Of course, not everyone wants to use a canned list ge…
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