IPG says Ottawa ushered Canada into a “two-tier media system”

Independent Press Gallery of Canada president Sheila Gunn Reid says media outlets receiving taxpayer subsidies “create a closed loop” of preferential treatment and government access.

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Independent Press Gallery of Canada president and Rebel News journalist Sheila Gunn Reid says massive taxpayers’ subsidies to news outlets have brought Canada into a “two-tier” media landscape, and one that excludes “millions of Canadians.”

Gunn Reid’s comments came as she testified before a Canadian Heritage Committee on the State of the Journalism and Media Sectors, where she said independent journalists are being pushed out, “not by the market, but by their own government.”