Report Card on Canadian News Media

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Canadian researchers worked in collaboration with American researchers from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, who have been doing this type of investigation for 30 years. The U.S. data presented here are from Pew Research Center studies.
Because we were conscious of the inherent weaknesses in surveys of the media—that people tend to vent against “the media”—we were careful in our methodology to direct people to the media that they were familiar with. We asked them to tell us what they consumed, and in several questions, we asked them to respond on the basis of what they had directly experienced.
This research has shed light on some interesting, and, in some cases, disturbing differences between Canada and the United States when it comes to news media. These findings are being released here for the very first time.
The bottom line is—news is important to Canadians but how do they feel about the news they're getting—well in some cases not all that good.

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