It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote about the CBC. In the intervening months, the Prescott memo on bias at the BBC was released, whose stunning allegations of systemic journalistic malpractice “inspired” multiple senior officials to leave the corporation.
I grew up in a household where the cbc was on the radio frequently. As an adult I too for many years had the cbc as a default news source. It was around 2010 when I started to listen less and become aware of their active suppression (avoidance?) of stories they (or their paymasters) didn’t want discussed. I hardly listen anymore. They seem to cover a narrow range of stories, and rarely ask the follow up questions which I would expect.
Here in BC for a long time they avoided news stories about cost of housing and anything on foreign ownership issues when housing prices were completely dis-associating from local levels of affordability. You would think someone would be interested in ‘following the money’. That’s when I realized something rotten was going on at CBC Vancouver news room that was a deliberate avoidance. It was also the time when anyone asking about foreign money in real estate was labeled as racist as an attempt to avoid the topic.
I was someone who used to default to the cbc website for local news, and still do check it for headlines. Once I saw a story at lunch, and when I wanted to show a friend in the evening it was already gone. Google found it but the story link was gone from the cbc news page. Already archived at 7pm when the story had just appeared at 9 am that morning. Meanwhile other stories would sit on the website for many days.
It’s the stories they don’t cover (that need to be covered) that are most concerning. Democracy can’t work without independent scrutiny and the accountability that occurs from putting a spotlight on political decisions. Regardless of political party.
It’s not just the CBC either to be fair. The corporate media clearly has their own bias on various issues also.
Outstanding work David. Thank you for this! It provides a strong analytical context for what the vast majority who read ALL sources of Canadian news have known by observation and anecdotally for a long, long time.
The CBC hasn't even pretended to be unbiased for decades. It is a fiscally corrupted, politically activist extension of the institutional left, promoting cultural Marxism and green theocracy, playing offense for the LPC, NDP, Greens, Jihad, grievance industry, and very likely the CCP all while playing defense against conservatives, historians, economist, industrialists, and western civilization - helping to set the table for the next iteration of collectivist dystopia. The CBC is a taxpayer-funded, in-house leftist-lobbying, propaganda leviathan. The other taxpayer subsidized "corporate media" are variously ideological clones of the CBC.
READING YOUR ARTICLE WITH AS MUCH OBJECTIVITY AS POSSIBLE I FOUND YOU MISSED SOME IMPORTANT STUFF... ie] the every day lying in the HofC, the maga provincial gov'ts in Ontario & Alberta - the fact that other Canadian media is owned by RW fascists maga americans...
so as a rw journalist - you failed miserably at objectivity by way of neglecting to 'open' the conversation to just one aspect of Canadian journalism.. sorry your mark 's 'F'... TRY AGAIN!
I grew up in a household where the cbc was on the radio frequently. As an adult I too for many years had the cbc as a default news source. It was around 2010 when I started to listen less and become aware of their active suppression (avoidance?) of stories they (or their paymasters) didn’t want discussed. I hardly listen anymore. They seem to cover a narrow range of stories, and rarely ask the follow up questions which I would expect.
Here in BC for a long time they avoided news stories about cost of housing and anything on foreign ownership issues when housing prices were completely dis-associating from local levels of affordability. You would think someone would be interested in ‘following the money’. That’s when I realized something rotten was going on at CBC Vancouver news room that was a deliberate avoidance. It was also the time when anyone asking about foreign money in real estate was labeled as racist as an attempt to avoid the topic.
I was someone who used to default to the cbc website for local news, and still do check it for headlines. Once I saw a story at lunch, and when I wanted to show a friend in the evening it was already gone. Google found it but the story link was gone from the cbc news page. Already archived at 7pm when the story had just appeared at 9 am that morning. Meanwhile other stories would sit on the website for many days.
It’s the stories they don’t cover (that need to be covered) that are most concerning. Democracy can’t work without independent scrutiny and the accountability that occurs from putting a spotlight on political decisions. Regardless of political party.
It’s not just the CBC either to be fair. The corporate media clearly has their own bias on various issues also.
Keep up the good research and reporting.
Outstanding work David. Thank you for this! It provides a strong analytical context for what the vast majority who read ALL sources of Canadian news have known by observation and anecdotally for a long, long time.
Do I detect a bias in this reporting on CBC bias?
I'm detecting bias in your critique of bias in a piece about bias. But perhaps I'm biased.
No surprises here!
The CBC hasn't even pretended to be unbiased for decades. It is a fiscally corrupted, politically activist extension of the institutional left, promoting cultural Marxism and green theocracy, playing offense for the LPC, NDP, Greens, Jihad, grievance industry, and very likely the CCP all while playing defense against conservatives, historians, economist, industrialists, and western civilization - helping to set the table for the next iteration of collectivist dystopia. The CBC is a taxpayer-funded, in-house leftist-lobbying, propaganda leviathan. The other taxpayer subsidized "corporate media" are variously ideological clones of the CBC.
READING YOUR ARTICLE WITH AS MUCH OBJECTIVITY AS POSSIBLE I FOUND YOU MISSED SOME IMPORTANT STUFF... ie] the every day lying in the HofC, the maga provincial gov'ts in Ontario & Alberta - the fact that other Canadian media is owned by RW fascists maga americans...
so as a rw journalist - you failed miserably at objectivity by way of neglecting to 'open' the conversation to just one aspect of Canadian journalism.. sorry your mark 's 'F'... TRY AGAIN!
I would assume that a similar analysis of the direct national competition (CTV, Global, et al.) would be forthcoming?
Without in depth analysis my gut suggests there will be significant similarities in bias although not as strong.
It's probably possible to do something similar with CTV and Global, although I haven't had the chance to take a serious look yet.