Comments on: A study into Quebec media

By: FPJQ conference video: behold the elegance – Fagstein

FPJQ conference video: behold the elegance – Fagstein — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:08:16 +0000

[...] Projet J has uploaded two videos shot at the conference of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec held last month. The first video (above) asks the members present about the future of journalism, and has brief interviews with culture minister Christine St-Pierre and Dominique Payette, who will be doing a study into the status of media in Quebec. [...]

By: TC

TC — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:41:01 +0000

OK, here is my take. You do not need another bunch of journalists talking about what happens next with the news media, especially the print media. Get some people with real experience on the advertising and business side and ask them for their ideas, suggestions and analysis on how to pay for the news gathering.

By: MM

MM — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:53 +0000

No need for a news department over at Tele-Quebec. Nor any more government funding of any media. Montreal has 4 daily newspapers. How many other cities in North America can say that. Plus all the daily free ones. We have enough.

This all sounds like the Quebec government is trying to meddle into things it has no business in. It should stick to funding things that it has commited itself to, such as healthcare, public roads. And stop wasting taxpayer money on garbage. This province is in very serious debt, and needs to cut down on it's expenses. Not add more.

If they fund any new news media, this will become a tool of Quebec City. They will tax us to support it. I would prefer that they tax us less, we keep more money in our pockets, and use this money to buy the newspapers, magazines, and whatever else we feel is important to each of us instead.

By: Soranar

Soranar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:07:30 +0000

I would have to agree about funding a news broadcast for Tele-Quebec (french TV already has Radio Canada , I fail to see the point in another government funded news broadcast (provincial or federal)

I hesitated to be against funding newspapers but Quebec already has several major ones which are protected by a hostage market (I read the New-York Times but half of Quebec doesn't speak English and French from France news are pointless)

To a lesser degree so are English montrealers (except CTV and the Gazette where do you get local news?)

Besides La Presse and Le Devoir have rarely turned a profit but private fundskeep them afloat anyway, and Le journal usually does fine

Quebec is not rich enough to waste taxpayer money on non-profitable uses (healthcare makes you pay taxes longer, education makes ou pay more taxes... government funded news makes you vote conservative?)