This happened back in 2019 but if you've ever wanted to read a total nothingburger of an article here is one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-microbiology-lab-winnipeg-china-1.7129960
Notice there isn't a single mention of what actually happened. Like 1000+ words on mishandled document drama. Libs find this compelling. Something happened! A scandal!
I saw the front page of the Globe and Mail yesterday was crowing about this and I was like tf the Globe used to be just pretty bad now they're full red scare?
I've been thinking about how in Vincent Bevins' If We Burn his colleagues defended the right leanings of their Brazil rag because newspapers content tends to creep toward what their paying audience wants to read. Is just the mere function that nobody under 60 even has a newspaper subscription anymore causing a general rightward shift of print media?
Not entirely because that presumes the editorial board and ownership of the media don't have agency and are simply pandering to the "natural" right wing tendencies of the masses for simple profit motive when, in reality, they're actively and consciously reinforcing right wing narratives because media reifies these narratives through their institutional legitimacy.