The silence on public sector growth is especially glaring. I checked the Public Accounts (the government's annual financial report) and found that personnel spending hit $71.1 billion last year. That is a $1.5 billion increase in just 12 months. The numbers are sitting in the parliamentary record, but they rarely make the news.
Some of the things I’ve noticed in terms of CBC bias:
Extremely credulous coverage of Carney vs Poilievre framed as a cynical political animal.
Complete absence of coverage regarding the controversy surrounding paediatric gender transition
Complete absence of coverage regarding the growing Kamloops 215 scandal.
Virtually no coverage of the very real challenges brought on by record levels of immigration
Bizarre promotion of decolonization given the fact that CBCs historical mandate is one of nation-building (kinda the opposite)
Coverage of the freedom convoy was unbelievably bad. It was actually the straw that broke the camels back for me. Completely incurious about the motives and background of the people involved. Lockstep recitation of the governments spin on the situation. Dripping with vitriol
The people at the cbc somehow twisted their mandate into a sort of vehicle for pedantic moralization. Teaching Canadians how to think correctly (wokely). Their vision of the Canadian culture they’re supposed to promote is urbane progressivism. Opposing viewpoints are bigoted and altogether illegitimate.
If you watched CBC's coverage of the convoy encampment, they'd have lhad you believe hwy 417 was packed with traumatized and greviously injured downtowners desperately trying to get to the refugee camps in Stittsville and Rockland.
The CBC needs to be unshackled from tax payer / government funding and then it can be as biased or unbiased as it likes supported by donors who agree with its viewpoints and any advertisers who might see any value in using its services to reach potential markets. In the meantime it ceases to be a government funded entity.
In the transition from bankrupt welfare state to despotism, the CBC and its subsidized and near ideological clones are currently cheerleading organs of the increasingly illiberal state. Blacklock's, like this site, part of the remaining free press has been attempting to attain information from the government on the buried bodies IRS scam with no success until now.
From Blacklock's Reporter: "Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty’s department yesterday was cited for breaching an Act of Parliament in concealing records on the purported graves of 215 children at an Indian Residential School. The department was ordered to begin releasing files within 36 days." Where was the "unbiased CBC" and fellow state organs?
Absolutely not. Which is not to say that there's no conservative bias anywhere throughout the full CBC system. But I found no evidence in the specific dataset I was looking at.
I truely cannot believe there is any honest evaluator who could argue with a stright face that the cbc presents a balanced view on virtually any topic. I don't listen, what irks me I have to pay for it.
You were terrifically even handed in describing the Ceeb people as not being biased, etc. I, on the other hand, am not nearly as polite. Therefore I state that I absolutely believe the Ceeb people are biased in their story selection and telling.
I wish similar analysis could be done on cbc radio. It became unlistenable over the last decade. I used to play a game of turning it on and counting the seconds until race or gender was mentioned. Bottomless credulity extended to left wing activists interviewed for every topic of note with no countervailing views. So frustrating to listen t
I'll admit that - back in the 90s - I sometimes used to time my errands just so I could listen to certain CBC Radio programs (Ideas, Age of Persuasion) in the car. But I haven't done that for at least a decade. I'm not sure I even own a radio anymore.
I won't mention names, but there's more than one prominent figure from that golden era who subscribes here.
Any time I read something that cites unnamed “experts”, I automatically translate that as "someone from Facebook".
"experts" is plural meaning there is more than one, so two people on facebook?
The silence on public sector growth is especially glaring. I checked the Public Accounts (the government's annual financial report) and found that personnel spending hit $71.1 billion last year. That is a $1.5 billion increase in just 12 months. The numbers are sitting in the parliamentary record, but they rarely make the news.
Some of the things I’ve noticed in terms of CBC bias:
Extremely credulous coverage of Carney vs Poilievre framed as a cynical political animal.
Complete absence of coverage regarding the controversy surrounding paediatric gender transition
Complete absence of coverage regarding the growing Kamloops 215 scandal.
Virtually no coverage of the very real challenges brought on by record levels of immigration
Bizarre promotion of decolonization given the fact that CBCs historical mandate is one of nation-building (kinda the opposite)
Coverage of the freedom convoy was unbelievably bad. It was actually the straw that broke the camels back for me. Completely incurious about the motives and background of the people involved. Lockstep recitation of the governments spin on the situation. Dripping with vitriol
The people at the cbc somehow twisted their mandate into a sort of vehicle for pedantic moralization. Teaching Canadians how to think correctly (wokely). Their vision of the Canadian culture they’re supposed to promote is urbane progressivism. Opposing viewpoints are bigoted and altogether illegitimate.
If you watched CBC's coverage of the convoy encampment, they'd have lhad you believe hwy 417 was packed with traumatized and greviously injured downtowners desperately trying to get to the refugee camps in Stittsville and Rockland.
The CBC needs to be unshackled from tax payer / government funding and then it can be as biased or unbiased as it likes supported by donors who agree with its viewpoints and any advertisers who might see any value in using its services to reach potential markets. In the meantime it ceases to be a government funded entity.
In the transition from bankrupt welfare state to despotism, the CBC and its subsidized and near ideological clones are currently cheerleading organs of the increasingly illiberal state. Blacklock's, like this site, part of the remaining free press has been attempting to attain information from the government on the buried bodies IRS scam with no success until now.
From Blacklock's Reporter: "Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty’s department yesterday was cited for breaching an Act of Parliament in concealing records on the purported graves of 215 children at an Indian Residential School. The department was ordered to begin releasing files within 36 days." Where was the "unbiased CBC" and fellow state organs?
I’m curious - did your research find any articles that showed a conservative bias?
Absolutely not. Which is not to say that there's no conservative bias anywhere throughout the full CBC system. But I found no evidence in the specific dataset I was looking at.
I truely cannot believe there is any honest evaluator who could argue with a stright face that the cbc presents a balanced view on virtually any topic. I don't listen, what irks me I have to pay for it.
Very well done, Sir!
As usual.
You were terrifically even handed in describing the Ceeb people as not being biased, etc. I, on the other hand, am not nearly as polite. Therefore I state that I absolutely believe the Ceeb people are biased in their story selection and telling.
Again, well done, Sir.
I wish similar analysis could be done on cbc radio. It became unlistenable over the last decade. I used to play a game of turning it on and counting the seconds until race or gender was mentioned. Bottomless credulity extended to left wing activists interviewed for every topic of note with no countervailing views. So frustrating to listen t
I'll admit that - back in the 90s - I sometimes used to time my errands just so I could listen to certain CBC Radio programs (Ideas, Age of Persuasion) in the car. But I haven't done that for at least a decade. I'm not sure I even own a radio anymore.
I won't mention names, but there's more than one prominent figure from that golden era who subscribes here.
Quirks and Quarks, Vinyl Cafe were well worth a listen. Now it's victim radio, all victims all the time, unlistenable.
"Unnamed experts" = opinion. If there is no name or attribution, then the statement is suspect.