It's one thing to site articles/news stories from sources that are right-leaning. It's another to site articles/news stories from sites that are not only right-leaning, but also who have a history of providing information that is selective, incomplete, unfair, misleading, inaccurate, or even fabricated, and that includes "opinion" pieces being carefully curated to appear as actual news.
"Left-biased" is sufficient cause to de-fund all news and opinion related activities. A federally-funded news/opinion broadcaster with political bias is a terrible idea.
Why not? If someone hands me a hammer when I need one, I don't ask who paid for it, I just swing it.
It's one thing to site articles/news stories from sources that are left-leaning. It's another to site articles/news stories from sites that are not only left-leaning, but also who have a history of providing information that is selective, incomplete, unfair, misleading, inaccurate, or even fabricated, and that includes "opinion" pieces being carefully curated to appear as actual news.
I see what you did there.
I didn't even claim that CBC was pushing a narrative, what I said was that they were influencing the narrative.
Yea, I saw that. Absolutely despicable.
My work here is done, up, up, and awaaayyyy…
Hey look, we agree on something.
Who decides what is and isn't left biased, and then who decides, based on the totality of their content whether or not they are indeed left-biased as a whole? How left biased does it need to be before you defund them? Are you really expecting them to be completely natural/center without any appearance of bias? What if they were "perfectly unbiased", but just one article got published that was just a little bit left or right biased? Would you then defund them? If there was determine to be bias in their national news reporting, do you defund the WHOLE CBC, including all the local chapters? Or do you only defund the areas that are actually found to be biased? If CBC Thunder Bay was foundto be biased, would you defund CBC Nova Scotia? If CBC National was found to be biased, would you de-fund CBC sports? Would you defund CBC radio that is sometimes the only radio station in remote communities, and who broadcasts stories about every-day Canadians that wouldn't elsewise ever get produced?? Would you defund CBC music which promotes locale Canadian musicians that would otherwise never get recognized?
Since it's apparently so difficult, the prudent thing to do is just go ahead and defund those activities. Some people will squeal; if those people are mostly observably left-aligned, the wisdom of the decision is confirmed. I do expect almost no appearance of bias. And, it's probably easier to measure than we think. Often enough the people writing copy just can't help themselves, and insert their contentious priors - a lot of question-begging, and a lot of descriptive modifiers than slant one way and can be measured as favourable/unfavourable. (People can and do measure these things.)
And even more important.....Why are we paying for a CBC internet platform? There is one space they are not needed and are not helping the other Canadian sites at all. CBC online is taking ad money from others. Plus GEM is not required. They should sell their content to highest bidder to stream on commercial platforms. Why is the government in the streaming business?
We can't know what is commercially viable as long as potential entrants have to compete against a publicly funded (subsidized) competitor.
