Comment 59170

By Mogadon Megalodon (anonymous) | Posted February 03, 2011 at 06:31:13 in reply to Comment 59139

"The CBC also presents an opportunity for our local stories to be elevated to a national level. Sure CHCH has a wide broadcast area, but is still essentially a regional influence in terms of news.

Lastly, it would be nice to have an 'outside' media presence that may be more willing to shine the light on local corruption. There are some stories that local media just won't touch."

Here's the thing: CHCH is owned by Channel Zero. Y108 and CHML are owned by Corus. K-Lite is owned by Astral Media. The Spectator and the city's community weeklies are owned by Torstar. All are Toronto affiliates and thus arguably 'outside' media presence.

Toronto is a media market led by private sector competition and home to a local/national dynamic that drives journalists to dig up stories. I'm having trouble thinking of any corruption stories that CBC Toronto has broken, but that's not to say there aren't any – just that a place like Toronto City Hall is not unfamiliar terrain for privately financed or independent investigative journalists. I have less difficulty thinking of Queens Park/Parliament Hill stories that the CBC has pried open, however.)

Local stories elevated to a national level in the last dozen years:

• Water Privatization/American Water:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/hamilton.html
"...done in collaboration with The Water Barons, an international investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which is a project of the Center for Public Integrity."

• Philip Services/Taro Dump
http://goo.gl/NvcJb

• Peter Rigo/Dominion Christian Centre
http://goo.gl/e32Y9

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