{"id":702,"date":"2002-02-05T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2002-02-05T13:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-09-08T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:06:08","slug":"an-inquiry-into-journalistic-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"an inquiry into journalistic integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><em>Is there a media source in Canada that isn&#8217;t affected by its owners&#8217; economic\/political\/social position? I just read a frightening story in the Varsity about the biases of national editorials, but it didn&#8217;t suggest any alternatives. I know that corruption of information is a problem in North America, but I can&#8217;t find people actually taking action to inhibit it.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">well, usually i try not to follow the news to tell you the truth, but i did happen upon that varsity article. that&#8217;s the problem with using information distribution as a source of capital, you begin manipulating the information to enhance the income. there are alternative media sources, and if i am overtaken by the urge to enter the world of current events, i go to the independent media source and use it as a comparison to any other mainstream sources that i find. also, if you are looking for local news, try free papers, or student papers (they&#8217;re often a bit over the top, you know how excitable kids are these days); they both are not usually tied to any specific sources of income, and hence have clearer editorial and moral standpoints. that of course is my cynical bias though. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">cheers, <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">askastudent<\/font><\/p>\n<p><!-- #EndEditable --><!-- #EndTemplate --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a media source in Canada that isn&#8217;t affected by its owners&#8217; economic\/political\/social position? I just read a frightening story in the Varsity about the biases of national editorials, but it didn&#8217;t suggest any alternatives. I know that corruption of information is a problem in North America, but I can&#8217;t find people actually taking action to inhibit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}