Call here with complaints about media

In case you haven’t heard (and I’m sure you haven’t), Canada has a new national body to hear complaints about what you think is wrong in newspapers, magazines and online news sites.
It’s called the National NewsMedia Council, and it describes itself as an amalgamation of the old Ontario, Atlantic and British Columbia press councils. But that’s not really correct: It’s replacing the British Columbia and Atlantic councils, which were largely defunct, and an Ontario council that was limping along without 36 of the province’s 46 daily newspapers as members.
And calling the NNC “national” at this point is optimistic. It claims to have 700 news organizations in all provinces interested in becoming members, but both the Alberta and Quebec press councils refused to participate.
Now, there hasn’t been a single formal complaint to the national council since it began operating in September but that doesn’t mean that Canada’s news media have suddenly become fault-free. It just means almost no one knows the new council exists.
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