No one is #forced to use Twitter, or any other #social#media, to get Canadian news.
Canadians can go to the #websites of the National Post, Globe and Mail, CBC, Global TV, CTV, or a bunch of other places for roundups of Canadian news. Edmontonians could easily find out about this from the sites of their local paper or TV stations.
The fact that people find it easier to use American tech companies' sites to find Canadian news is an indictment of our news orgs, not the tech companies.
@cazabon People don't consume single-source newspapers (sites) any more, they tend to use aggregates and get multiple views. Social Media is a good aggregate, certainly in live situations where news might be hitting different sources at different times, and few-minute delays might be a big issue.
Canadians can already get the news. The fact that only the big U.S. tech companies have effective news #aggregation that attracts Canadian #eyeballs is an extremely strong indicator that Canadian news orgs have failed in this respect.
Hence, an indictment of Canadian news orgs, not U.S. tech companies.
Why the hell haven't the Canadian orgs I listed #cooperated to launch a Canadian #news aggregation site? It wouldn't even be expensive.
@cazabon I am all for that! I think some of the takeaways from the Nova Scotia shootings were that sites like #Twitter were not good places to be posting for active crisis alerts, and everyone has their own favourite source of instant news. Some may be watching Twitter, some FB, Instagram, Mastodon or the CBC. It would be much more effective for them to be able to point people to an aggregate.
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