Maclean’s magazine will become a monthly (rather than a weekly) starting in January. Rogers Communications announced slashing cut backs to its magazine publishing business Friday just a couple of days after the company’s communications division shut down the streaming service Shomi. Chatelaine will appear six times a year as will Today’s Parent. Maclean’s, Flare, Sportsnet, MoneySense and Canadian Business will be available exclusively on the web and on apps, with new content posted daily.
STAR WANTS CBC.CA SHUT DOWN
And Torstar chair John Honderich would be happy to see the CBC News website shut down. Honderich told the Canadian Heritage committee that this is somehow or other a misspending of public money. (Why?) Others might suggest they shut down the CBC false news program This is That instead. CBC calls it satire and just like Orsen Welles in 1938, the producers of This is That are astonished — astonished — that people would fall for their carefully calculated stunts. Welles sent half the population of New Jersey screaming into the streets with a false news radio offering of a Martian landing. It’s part of journalism history for those who care to bother.
