My post above that you were responding to opened with: " There is no such thing as a "completely unbiased news source".
How could I make that any clearer?
You object to the explicit and disclosed bias of union support for the Tyee. I object to the implicit and undisclosed biases of mainstream media sources. Doesn't stop me from being an avid consumer of the mainstream media, though as I think the key to being informed is to read a wide variety of informed sources including those with a slant you don't agree with.
You did and I missed that, so my mistake there..
Regardless I should think a little research should tell you for the most part anything you'd want to know about mainstream media and their agendas and biases.
But so that I am clear what I object to is the Tyee presenting itself as something shiny and new and trustworthy, unclouded apparently by outside influences, corporate or otherwise. Whether its true or not that is how they come across. So instead of corporatism they are pushing a leftist agenda: ok, got it now. So IOW all they are really doing is presenting an opposite side of the exact same coin. Nothing more IMO.
In terms of the mainstream media club it isn't too terribly difficult to go to the website of any major news or media outlet and figure out who owns, supports and maintains it. A little further digging into their financials - no huge exercise in most cases unless its privately held, which in that case should also tell you something of their philosophical stance and viewpoint re: "business" - will indicate on what stock exchange its shares trade.
And really to cite but one example, and with only very minor effort, you can' figure out what biases or agenda a Rupert Murdoch might be pushing or selling to the masses via his global media empire? FOX News is about as obvious and blatant as an organization can be in terms of their slant. Its about as subtle as a 5-ton dump truck. I don't think he or it or for that matter other large multinational media organizations are all that mysterious in terms of their world-views.
And if you wish to go further lets stay with Canada and reference CTV News - who owns them? Bell Media, itself a subsidiary of BC Enterprises and in its present form the result of a union between BCE and the Thomson Family. It really isn't that hard and I don't require an advanced degree in Communications or Economics to figure out that Murdoch or BCE and entities like them aren't pushing for corporate tax increases, mass handouts of milk and cookies for all or communal singalong's of Kum-ba-ya. I should think their news agendas, biases and viewpoints are pretty obvious.
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