Yes, I mentioned "since 2010", I gave some numbers I could find without wasting the time to find all cuts since 2010.

That's exactly what we're discussing, media budgets going down affects the quality of the work the employees can do and the quality and quantity of employees they can hire.

Radio-Canada used to have their own journalists everywhere in the world, now they have a couple here and there and resort to using contractors when required, why? Their budget got dilapidated.

All medias use articles from the Associated Press more and more because it's cheaper than having their own journalists.

Cost cutting measures are taken all over the place. Add the fact that people don't read the articles anymore because they barely spend enough time on the page to read the title (if they don't just check it from the Google result of from their Facebook feed), the fact that people turn to "alternative journalists" who don't have any ethics code or quality standards plus the people who don't read at all and just check YouTube videos instead... The only way to get their attention isn't with facts but with sensationalism and the only way to increase their budget is by getting clicks and that happens by catching people's attention, not by reporting facts and not by releasing few high quality articles late after the fact. Readers want the news now, as it happens, no time for fact checks or corrections!

No wonder there's a media crisis that affects all serious medias, the way they traditionally did there job would lead to their death today.