IIC 2018: We're not your problem so let's work together, CBC's Tait tells Canadian media industry

OTTAWA – With ad dollars and attention moving away from traditional media outlets to the subjects everyone knows and frets about (Google, Facebook, et al) and with those same platforms being used to spread lies and hate and disinformation, it’s time to put away the brickbats directed at the CBC and instead pull together, said the public broadcaster’s CEO Catherine Tait.“Canadian media companies are struggling. Advertisers are increasingly moving their ad dollars to Google and Facebook. Newspapers are folding and broadcasters have had to reduce local news operations,” she said in her Wednesday keynote address to the International Institute of...