OP-ED: Journalism was meant to challenge power. Now, it just echoes it

The legacy media have traded the pursuit of truth for partisan activism.

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By: David Leis

David Leis is President and CEO of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and host of the Leaders on the Frontier podcast.

Canada’s media is not failing because people stopped reading it. It is failing because people stopped trusting it.

For decades, the media was one of the central pillars of a…