The CBC is a big part of the reason Canada isn't as messed up as the US.
Canada has for-profit media and plenty of media that leans left or right. But, CBC exists to anchor that media universe with a boring, institutionalist, honest view.
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The US has NPR and PBS but I'm guessing they're not as influential as the CBC is in Canada
I don't even think PBS & NPR are as well funded (though I don't have sources to support that). That's why they're always doing telethons and thanking "viewers like you" for supporting their programming.
And theyβve already had massive funding cuts and corporate sponsors stepped in.
So why so you think poliviere is trying to get rid of it?
Any problems the CBC has will be dwarfed by the massive problems having a for profit media cause.
When money becomes the only goal, society will be harmed.
When money becomes the only goal, society will be harmed.
That's true in every part of society, not only the media.
I don't necessarily agree. There are some industries where the market is free enough that competition really does work.
Just not things like housing, healthcare, and the media.
As more and more traditional media die, the more we need CBC. It's only becoming more important.
The conservatives truly want to destroy Canada, they look to the south, see the divided country down there, and say "yes, please, some of that up here"
Hey, Ontario dumbfucks, stop voting CPC. You can swing this election.
Ontario is a brain injury.
I won't be voting for the Liberal party again unless they give us the electoral reform they promised us and didn't deliver when they had a majority government.
I'm hopeful for a strong NDP opposition to a Conservative minority.
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Only fools would conclude that the problem of executive bonuses is caused by a public funding model. If you thought private companies don't hand out outlandish bonuses to executives, you haven't been paying attention.
Also, bonuses are also explicitly part of many compensation packages. It's contractually required for them to be paid, in many cases.
There are lots of reasons why this is done, too; for example, it can be used to reduce risk. If bonuses are tied to the success of a program, then the CBC doesn't pay as much for "duds" that don't earn as much revenue.
As much as I like the cbc, the upper management should not be handing out bonuses while workers are being laid off.
Some of these bonuses are part of the performance evaluation they already signed on and whether they met these objectives or not. You can't really go back on an agreement made before the cuts.
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I can hardly wait to not vote for this guy.
Most people would just say CBC should be run differently, but everyone familiar with the Conservatives know they really just itching to do a fire sale for all crown properties.
The swarm of bots on Youtube just simultaneously creamed themselves.
How come no one talks about how the CBC has clearly been under attack by armies of pretend people probably funded by foreign governments for like a decade
Publicly funded independent journalism helps prevent the spread of misinformation. China and Russia's foreign interference is already working, and they finally have enough leverage that they can try to eliminate the CBC.
The echo chamber of social media algorithms is driven disproportionately by early interaction, and with sophisticated content farms dodging spam detection when they pile on their own posts, Russia and China are able to shift dialogue in their direction of choice. It's a shockingly effective strategy, and it's slowly dismantling Western power and influence.
This has been my suspicion for a long time. I feel like this technology started bearing fruit in a big way in like 2018-2019 when things started going fucking weird. I think Brexit was the first major world-changing victory of these psychological warfare campaigns.
Media like the CBC and the ONF have been a huge part of my childhood. It would be a shame that future generations wouldn't get to experience it.
I listen and enjoy listening to CBC radio.
This would actually make my day to day life worse and I doubt he would give me a tax break that would be worth it.
There wouldnt be a single dollar tax break on the middle class...
On the rich, on the other hand.
Even the carbon tax is only a net loss for the most polluting and usually richest Canadians.
(Well, unless you include lost growth, but at that rate you should include the cost of climate change too, and it's a net gain for almost everyone)
I suppose that anyone that cannot see the similarities between Squinty McProudBoy and trump will be voting for Squinty McProudBoy and his base of white supremacists, fascists, racists, misogynists and assholes.
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CBC is a mid news outlet, some bad reporting, some good reporting, I can see the benifit of their execs getting a pay cut, but overall is ok.
The CBC doesnβt do a perfect job but itβs far better than not having them.
That said itβs often better to look at foreign reporting of your country to get a better perspective.
I like the BBC for that with regards to Canada and either BBC or CBC for the US.
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