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(12/8) The Questions...
1. Are the phones outside the Chum Building the nastiest public phones in the city?
2. With all the hubbub around XM Radio Canada and Sirius Canada, are we actually willing to PAY for radio?
3. How will the Toronto Star/Globe and Mail announcement impact media concentration overall?
4. Why does the Toronto Sun resort to snarky "last word" comments in its letters section?
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2. No, I'm not willing. iPod + iTrip = my own radio.
3. Time will tell.
4. Because it's a tabloid (read, dog shit).
The sports section is good though.
2. Heck no. Podcast forever!
3. It won't. Anyone who thinks mainstream Canadian print media hasn't been entirely corrupt anyway since the advent of the National Post just isn't paying attention.
4. Because that's the level of discourse at which they, and their entire readership, operate.
2. i second the podcast vote.
3. i stopped reading newspapers in favor of reading BlogTO
4. see above. (though really, does anyone still read the sun?)
2. Anecdotally, the demand stateside for satellite radio seems to be there. I have a friend who works in a local call center answering support calls for U.S. XM subscribers. They have an enormous, never-ending queue that has many customers waiting LONG periods of time. And they are only one of several call center locations on the contract.
3. it's the same players as before, just shuffling around the chips a little. ken thomson is a flinty genius.
4. poor toronto sun. beset by freebie dailies, the post, and its own managerial inconsistency. (that brit-tabloid style makeover didn't seem to last very long...). But people do read it for the sports you know.
anyway with respect to the question -- tradition? it's like the sunshine girl, they can't ever ditch it.