A Call to Nationalize PostMedia?

I’ve been poking at PostMedia for a long time and people that work the company that’s owned by an American venture company need their jobs, but ultimately maybe they should ask themselves who they’re working for.

Are they working for Canadians or are they working for an American venture company?

I argue that they are the original ‘foreign influence’ in Canada.

Other Canadians like David Olive with the Toronto Star asked this question nearly a decade ago.

Recently, Corey Hagan was asking these same questions and he sums up his feelings quite nicely in this article.

Here’s a snapshot for those who want it:

• Buy Postmedia
• Fix Postmedia
• Sell Postmedia to the Canadians who work there – and let them pay with an IOU.

My suggestion for the last component is to integrate PostMedia with the CBC (after firing all of the dog-whistle writers) and/or sell it to company employees in the form of a national, journalistic worker-owned co-op. They could perform a function similar to the Canadian Press, where their stories get distributed to other media channels in Canada and beyond.

Here’s my real concern: enough of this bullshit ‘bothsideism’ and asking if there’s merit to insane bullying rants from the south.

Things are about to get pretty nutty in response to the regime that’s taken over in the US.

Canada needs to be ready in any and all ways.