We can’t afford to handicap a public service like the Citizen and then talk about transparency in the same breath.
In June 2022, council and mayor voted to stop advertising public notices in local papers. A year later, in June 2023, the Canadian Association of Journalists honoured our city with the 2022 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy. These two things are not unrelated.
When you review the list of reasons for the government secrecy award, you realize that everything on the list came to the public through articles published in the Prince George Citizen and information that they obtained through countless FOI requests. Bill C-18 is shuttering local media as tech companies look out for their best interests. Locally, we need to let our elected officials know that local media is an essential service that can’t be replaced by a snarky social media team at City Hall.
When arguments are made against this amendment on Aug. 16, they will probably be concerned with efficiency and cost. Someone might say “It isn’t the city’s responsibility to support local media.” It might not be, but it is to the benefit of the public to support it.
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