November 28, 2018
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#190 Is It Time To Pull The Plug On Legacy Media?
Will federal media subsidies save a dying industry or merely protract the inevitable? And how did the Anglophone press react to the Ford government’s Francophone cuts?
David Crosbie
Senior Producer

Brigitte Noël guest hosts, along with Martin Patriquin.

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