Golden eras never seem like golden eras while you’re in them; you’re too busy fixating on what’s wrong, what’s next, and what could have been to appreciate how good you’ve got it.
And 2015 is, at best, a strange moment to choose as a golden era of media, if not an entirely ridiculous one. That year, CTV and CBC alone cut nearly 700 jobs — so my apologie…
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