“In this engaging book, Marc chronicles how we’ve gotten to where we are with our media in Canada today. . . . Marc looks at the people and policies that have brought us here, whether it was mergers, swaps, the influence on governments to change regulations, to colourful figures who ambitiously set out to reshape the media in their own image, how we got here is a good way to see where we’re headed.” TheCommentary.ca Read review

“Sometimes, the best nonfiction books are written with palpable anger at the injustice of the world. Readers can sense when there’s a fiery passion driving the author’s desire to tell a story. . . . Throughout his career as a journalist and as a scholar, Edge has proven that he’s not susceptible to being captured by anyone. And his incendiary and subversive research should be of particular interest to residents of Western Canada, where three-quarters of daily newspaper circulation is controlled by one company, Postmedia, mostly owned by U.S hedge funds.” Georgia Straight Read review

“An important examination of what can be done to nurse Canada’s media back to public health. It is a provoking primer of what is and what might be.” Winnipeg Free Press Read review

“Marc Edge’s The News We Deserve provides a history of concentrated media ownership in Canada, from Southam and Thompson, to Quebecor and Canwest. . . . He indicates that these changes have been wrought largely by changing financial markets, lax and neglectful governmental regulations, technological convergence, and a media industry crying wolf about a financial crisis. Beyond the concentration of media voices, the issue is that these owners have political intentions that lead to a partisan press rather than a democratic media.”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Read review

“Edge’s critique raises important questions . . . Edge excels at underscoring how many of the detrimental changes to the quality of Canadian mainstream media . . . actually occurred within public view and with the participation of regulators. . . . Based on Edge’s assessment, Canadian scholars continue to be easily swayed by . . . funding received from media companies. To imply that faculty who receive such funding would . . . skew their research findings to somehow suit their corporate funding overlord(s) presents an affront to all of academe.”
Canadian Journal of Communication Read review

"He is methodological in explaining the government inaction and public indifference that have led us to the 'news we deserve.' As such, his book is a worthy contribution to the conversation we should be having about the precarious state of Canadian reporting today."
Pacific Rim Review of Books Read Review