Poilievre Should Pledge to Purge CBC, Not Just Defund It.

I believe in the CBC … or, at least, the CBC that used to honour its actual mandate.

“The CBC’s mandate is set out in the 1991 Broadcasting Act. It says the public broadcaster should “provide broadcasting services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens and entertains,” a CTV story reported this past weekend.

The article (https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/with-conservatives-promising-to-defund-could-the-next-election-kill-the-cbc-1.7172797) suggested a Poilievre government could not just defund the CBC, but “kill it” completely.

That would be a mistake.

The CBC had, in the past, done a good job of bringing Canadians together on momentous occasions, giving voice to communities and issues ignored or rarely shone the spotlight on by private broadcasters and print journalists.

With private corporate bean counters slashing news coverage and staff by the hundreds (while still rewarding managers with millions in bonuses!) it would be a tragic mistake to leave Canadians’ news, information and public service coverage to the dwindling already emaciated private sector.

Canadians NEED the CBC … but NOT what the CBC has become in recent years.

When it comes to “informing” and “enlightening”, I contend the CBC has failed its mandate in that regard!

Readers of this blog will note I have often referred to the CBC’s The National news coverage as “the unofficial voice of the NDP”.

But the bias and the journalistic failures, in my opinion, now extend far beyond The National.

The CBC’s coverage of major Canadian societal issues … abortion, right to life, refugees, immigration, First Nations claims, transgender rights, resource development, pipelines, climate issues … have, in my view, been overwhelmingly ONE-SIDED … more advocacy of far left positions than an honest canvassing of varying positions and opinions.

You would never know, watching (or listening) to the CBC that MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Canadians hold views, beliefs and principles that oppose the “progressive” liberal agendas on these issues listed above … that the CBC dishes out every day, every week on programs and interviews after programs and interviews after programs and interviews.

That is pushing PROPAGANDA … not informing and enlightening!

And as bad as the CBC has, I believe, violated its mandate in covering these domestic issues for years now, I contend it has done even a worse job with its international coverage … its Mid East “journalism” so terribly one-sided, so anti-Israel, so pro-Palestinian ( I submit, even pro-Hamas) it has ignored the basic principle to fairly report BOTH SIDES of the conflict and its impacts.

The evidence speaks for itself. Just watch with a critical eye!

CBC viewers are flooded on almost every newscast with Palestinian-provided Hamas-friendly carefully edited and selected videos showing what they say are civilian victims … women, children, old men and women, mourning relatives … lots of body bags and funerals.

They can’t ALL be “civilians”!

Where are the dead Hamas, Islamic Jihad fighters, terrorists? You know, the ones who have killed 835 Israeli soldiers so far in the conflict, who keep firing missiles at Israeli towns and cities, even now. Does the CBC report those almost daily Israeli deaths? Or show their funerals and grieving families? Have I missed it every time …or is the CBC ignoring most of them?

And what about the dozens of wounded Gazan children and adults who were moved by bus through Israel last week to hospitals … bringing to more than 1,000 the number of injured Palestinians evacuated through Israel for medical assistance since the latest conflict began? Did I miss that … or did the CBC ignore it? Why???

There are almost daily interviews on CBC Newsworld with clearly biased, one-sided Gazan Hamas health “officials”, biased anti-Israel UN/UNRWA mouthpieces, anti-Israel human rights “spokespersons” and anti-Israel university “experts” … NONE of whom EVER blame or even question Hamas, Islamic Jihad for senselessly continuing devastating war, for hiding/operating/firing from inside refugee-filled facilities, using Gazans as human shields, for stealing huge quantities of food and supplies shipped into the area or for shooting their own people who try to flee the conflict zones … or even question why Hamas murdered, in cold blood, six hostages (two of them young women), found in a tunnel with their hands tied behind their backs and bullets in their heads?

When I see interviews with Israelis on the CBC, they certainly seem to overwhelmingly favour relatives and friends of the hostages who demand an immediate ceasefire or critics/foes of Prime Minister Netanyahu. They just can’t seem to find Israelis (in the millions) who support continuing the fight until Hamas and other terrorist threats are eliminated.

And where is the detailed CBC coverage of the Israeli civilian casualties and suffering still occurring during the war … with millions still being forced to flee almost daily with their kids (often in the middle of the night) into bomb shelters as rockets/missiles continue to fall on them?

The CBC has done a very good job of showing how the sweet young innocent children in Gaza have been killed, hurt and traumatized by all the bombing, the damage, loss of family in the war; but I haven’t seen much on the CBC about the sweet young innocent kids in Israel who have also been killed, hurt or traumatized by the bombings, terror attacks, loss of family there in the war. Why?

Imagine if you/your family had to do that almost nightly. And the CBC almost ignored that!

And I am not alone now in criticizing the CBC’s Mid-East coverage.

The Jewish media-monitoring group Honest Reporting Canada (https://honestreporting.ca/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2aKOy77xigMVN7haBR0ECSNiEAAYASAAEgLdsvD_BwE) has been cataloguing CBC’s one-sided bias for several months.

Here are just a few of their most recent headlines:

“CBC Ombudsman Tells Journalists To Avoid Telling Canadians Gaza Health Ministry Is Run By Hamas”

“CBC Front Burner Spends 40 Minutes Accusing Israel Of Ethnic Cleansing”

“Israel-Bashing CBC Reporter Mouhamad Rachini Continues to Report On Hamas-Israel War, Uncritically Repeating Hamas Propaganda”

“CBC Ottawa Morning Blames Israel For Striking Syrian Regime Targets – Ignoring Why Israel Would Want to Keep Weapons Out Of Jihadist Hands”

“BC Podcast Front Burner Interviews Anti-Israel Activist Complaining About Giller Prize; No Challenge From Host As Usual”

“CBC Writer Sara Jabakhanji – Who Called for More Anti-Israel News Coverage – Publishes Four Articles Offering Misleading Picture Of The Middle East”

“CBC Journalist Mouhamad Rachini – Who Called Supporters Of Israel “Vile” – Publishes Article On Lebanon Ignoring Hezbollah Terrorism”

“CBC Radio Host Matt Galloway Allows “Genocide” Lie To Be Repeated 12 Times By Guest – Failing To Offer Any Challenge”

“CBC Radio Host Nadia Kidwai Features Uncritical Conversation With Extremist Anti-Israel Agitator & UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese”

“CBC Depicts Israel As Committing War Crimes In Gaza Hospitals, Ignores Hamas’s Embedding Terrorists In Medical Facilities”

“One-Sided CBC Article On Environmental Costs Of War Blames Only Israel, Exonerates Hamas”

I could go on for pages!!!

But how’s this:

“CBC Ombudsman Acknowledges Broadcaster Falling Short On Demonstrating Its Providing Balanced Reporting On Israel”.

That last one was back in September … and the others listed came AFTER that! Sure looks like nothing had changed.

In August, the CBC’s Editor in Chief Brodie Fenlon defended the CBC’s Mid-East coverage:

“No one story or interview will capture the totality of the ongoing events in the Middle East — and that’s never our aim. Rather, we will be judged on a body of work over time. I believe that body of work speaks for itself and demonstrates our values of independence, impartiality, accuracy and balance.”

Well, I believe you have failed miserably!

The CBC should be investigated by a Parliamentary Committee once Canada’s next government takes office … and heads should roll if the biases are as bad as it looks to me … or even worse!

Canadians deserve a public broadcaster that covers, reports fairly and accurately on both or all sides of complex issues … domestically and internationally.

I don’t believe that will …or can … happen unless there’s a wholesale purging of radical biased producers, writers and reporters.

But the CBC itself should be saved … and, for a lot less money now being spent on it, restored to the quality broadcaster it used to be.

Harv Oberfeld

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17 Responses to Poilievre Should Pledge to Purge CBC, Not Just Defund It.

  1. Not Sure says:

    I know you are on to the next topic but I found this apropos to this topic.

    On the Tyee this morning there was an article entitled “Standing Up to Conservative Attacks On Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” It was a comment that grabbed my attention. Upset that DEI is under attack and that Trudeau who pushed for DEI has now resigned this is the opening line from one of the readers.

    “What we Canadians just witnessed was a coup d’etat in broad daylight perpetrated by main stream media including our publicly funded CBC. They made sure our PM resigned. They made sure that pp was not held accountable and they made sure that 99.99% of articles/shows in ‘any’ of their conservative owned papers and on our CBC tv political shows were negative against our Prime Minister.”

    This person sees the publicly funded CBC through a very different lens than you do.

    That is what I am trying to say about personal bias. I don’t doubt that the CBC leans a particular way on certain stories. But you see the CBC as radical extremists from the left while this person sees them as part of a right wing coup I am pretty sure the CBC falls somewhere closer to the middle.

    (Response: I don’t think it’s that Canadians don’t care about DEI and other social issues: but it seems the left place those FIRST and voters want the cost of living to be FIRST! H.p)

  2. D. M. Johnston says:

    Two quick points:

    1) Abortion; it is a necessary evil. A relative who was pregnant found to her horror that the fetus was malformed and would not survive long after birth and she terminated it.

    I also know of a very young girl who got pregnant by a very young boy and that pregnancy was also terminated.

    Sorry but abortion for both was the best outcome. It is a womans right to choose.

    As for other issues, my very Edwardian grandmother (yes the same one who ran off to Alaska with an Irishman in the mid 30’s, leaving my dad to be raised by his grandmother and great grandmother/father) taught me that with being (in the modern vernacular) gay or different, that “it was none of our business” and “never make their business, your business unless invited to do so”.

    As for First nations, my family were in the forest Industry and once managed sawmills and again my same Edwardian grandmother had a high regard for the Cowichan workers and was taught never be rude, never name call and never enter their reservations unless invited to do so. Always address them as Mr. and Mrs.

    I wish many who have strong views think about the preceding tale.

  3. Stu de Baker says:

    “like it or not, there are millions of Canadians, who agree with Gilberts opinions, or some variation of them.”

    I did not say otherwise, and you conveniently sidestepped my point; that being Gilbert’s presentation is one-sided, Trumpian, Southern Baptist, righteousness.

    “𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.”

    “Those who want to kill them.”? The only thing missing is scriptures.

  4. Not Sure says:

    I can only imagine the pain and suffering and heartbreak that Stu de Baker and his family went through. Even sharing it now must have been difficult. Thank you.

    Now back to the CBC. I just want to clarify something. I said I wasn’t going to defend the CBC. What I was trying to do was point out the biases we all have that will make us see the CBC differently.

    I am pro-choice.
    I am pro First Nations whatever that means, but the term has been used here as if it were a negative.
    I am pro LGBTQ again whatever that means or more accurately what the opposite means
    I am pro Palestine in that I support a two state solution.
    I support Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself but I also believe the war was never going to destroy Hamas (look at ISIS as an example). I thought the war was going on too long and innocent lives were being lost and Gaza was being turned into a pile of rubble that will take years to rebuild. I supported a ceasefire 8 months ago when the current ceasefire was first proposed.

    How extreme are these views. I would say they are pretty mainstream Canadian.

    If you have a problem with how fair the CBC may or not be about these views then fair enough but some of the comments are so generalized and so wildly exaggerated (Hamas supporters, radical extremists) that I am having a difficult time following along.

    OK. just a quick google. Here are some articles from the CBC

    In an opinion piece a trans person explains why in your face activism is not helping the cause.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-trans-rights-radical-activism-1.6220106
    (Personal opinion: Someone should have written this about the pro-Palestinian protests)

    In another opinion piece a pro-lifer explains they do not stop supporting the baby after it is born.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-abortion-gerwatoski-pregnancy-resource-centres-1.6481857

    And here’s a CBC investigation into misuse of funds on a First Nations reserve.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jordans-principle-funds-misuse-health-care-shamattawa-1.7136707

    Do they do that enough? I don’t know because the news media has to have stories to tell. When was the last abortion story that anybody covered let alone the CBC. Wait google search.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ussc-dobbs-abortion-ruling-1.6495637 Is this biased?

    When I said “bias is a tough topic” and you replied “I don’t think CBC bias is a tough topic at all” you missed my point. Bias is a tough topic because we are blinded by our own opinions.

    I am not saying that the CBC can’t be improved like all media can. But suggesting that the CBC is some wildly radical, extreme left, out of control danger to Canadian society is just showing our own biases.

    (Response: in a way you make my point for me. You state your own personal view on a number of matters: that is quite fine as each Canadian can hold those views. However, the CBC is a publicly finance TV network… It is duty-bound to give fair and equal access and coverage of all points of view. To site one or two cases where they gave one side, in the face of dozens of cases where they gave the other side, makes my point. The CBC is not journalistically or ethically presenting a fair reflection of how Canadians of all beliefs , feel on controversial issues. It must be purged… Although I hope in the end, it will still continue to function, returning to its old values, standards, and degrees of fairness. H.o)

  5. Stu de Baker says:

    “These unborn children fight for their lives against the efforts of those who want to kill them, but when they emerge alive there is no one there to care for them. They are abandoned to die, and then they are discarded.”

    Gilbert, I am as shocked by your words as you would want me to be. However, it is not your descriptiveness which upsets me, but that you preach it, with such uncaring, one size fits all, callousness.

    If you have not personally experienced the trauma and pain of ending a near term pregnancy, AS A FAMILY, you have no business foisting your vitriolic opinion on others. And I believe it is no more than an opinion.

    From the first hint a potential problem might exist in an immediate family member’s pregnancy, to termination took more than four months. After several specialized, intrusive and intensive procedures involving the mother and her parents, weeks waiting for results, which alternately buoyed and dashed hopes; a rollercoaster to be wished on no one, the recommended course of action, knowing survival of the infant was not possible, the gut-wrenching decision to terminate by induction was made.

    Remember, this was a months long process.

    After 46 hours in forced labour, with no results, a cesarian section was performed. Members of the immediate family, including myself were present, welcomed the child into our lives, held it and witnessed the final breaths. Abandonment was not a part of the process.

    That was seven years ago, some members of the family, have suffered from depression, while others still have difficulty with what took place, but not one of them, none, believes the wrong decision was made.

    The topic is the CBC, which you conveniently overlooked to use HO’s blog as a platform; let’s keep it real.

    (Response: like it or not, there are millions of Canadians, who agree with Gilberts opinions, or some variation of them. My point regarding the CBC is that they too deserve airtime when the issue of abortion … or “choice” as many prefer to softpeddle it comes up. And the fact that the CBC reports or even pushes only one side in the debate is a real ethical and journalistic problem. H.o)

  6. Gilbert says:

    Most countries have limits for abortion. Canada is the only industrialized country in the world that does not. For example, Sweden, a country that many consider very liberal, only allows abortions in the first trimester.

    According to the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), there were 127 live-birth abortions in 2020/2021. In 2019/2020, there were 112. These unborn children fight for their lives against the efforts of those who want to kill them, but when they emerge alive there is no one there to care for them. They are abandoned to die, and then they are discarded.

    Late-term abortions are happening in Canada, funded with taxpayer money, and it’s exactly as ugly and horrific as it sounds. On top of those born alive and left to die, another 935 stillbirth abortions were performed in 2020/2021 – abortions where the means of death was effective prior to birth, but the baby was 20 weeks old or more when he or she was born dead. I don’t have the statistics for more recent years, but I doubt they’re very different.

    Those who are pro-abortion don’t like to hear such news, but the phrase “hear no evil see no evil” doesn’t make the statistics go away. It really is a tragedy, and it should not be allowed. It shows a completely lack of respect for human life.

    (Response: That’s exactly the kind of information that has been absent from CBC News reporting … because, I believe, it does not fit the CBC’s far left totally pro choice advocacy. News organizations should report all sides … then let their viewers, listeners, readers decide. H.o)

  7. Marge says:

    All you have to do is look how the CBC is covering the Liberal leadership. Mr. Carney is the most wonderful man in their world (Wow – he even plays hockey!!) – no comments about his associations with rather horrible people like Ms. Maxwell, no comments on his now Animal Farm policy of “Carbon tax bad, new tax good”, and on and on it goes, in other words no in-depth research about who he really is or what he stands for. I haven’t yet watched how they will “do” Freeland as it is early stages but my feeling is that because Telford’s father is apparently a big wig at the CBC (Telford being Trudy’s best friend and helper) that Freeland will be attacked and Carney given a free pass! Butts is his campaign manager so my take is the die is in – to get Carney chosen at all costs to Canadians. Look for their stories in days ahead to tip the scales Carney’s way!
    Your comment that we need the CBC because of cuts from other media makes no sense as the CBC can never be “fair” minded if it continues to receive huge chunks of money from the government. As my sister told me that she always voted Liberal as a federal government employee because the Libs always gave them good salaries, the same will be true for the CBC. Its anti-Conservative bias will sneak through and how can it continue to be “fair” unless it’s policed all the time and who is going to do that and how??? It really can’t be done and the best thing for all of us is to see that bloated corporation not supported by tax money at all!

    I think the best deal is to defund the CBC and let it sink or swim. Those who want to support it can have a “Go Fund Me” page (Not Sure can contribute all his Liberal money as will Mr. D.M. Johnson do doubt to attack the Conservatives) or a PBS style funding campaign every other week. Our tax dollars can be better used elsewhere, I think. Healthcare comes to the top of my list especially instead of funding propaganda machines for the Liberals!

    (Response: Maybe I’m showing my age, but i do recall … years ago …when the CBC did fairly canvas opposing views on fiscal and social issues, asked tough questions about where/how the millions and millions of dollars being funnelled to First Nations was being spent and why band members often couldn’t see the “books”, questioned the words and actions of terrorist groups (not just Israel), exposed and challenged corrupt Palestinian and other Arab dictators … (hard to believe watching and listening today) refused to allow themselves to be used by radical activists promoting blatantly biased or even anti-Semitic propaganda and even provable lies! There was a time … but not now. The CBC should be saved …but purged. H.o)

  8. Not Sure says:

    I am not going to defend the CBC except to say it is the best source of news for me both online and TV. It is high quality.

    As for bias. Maybe it leans left. But to suggest it is extreme left is just people displaying their own bias. I am fully aware of my bias but I just don’t see the extremism that you and others on here are talking about.

    You might not like the way they have been reporting on Gaza but they are not Hamas supporters in any sense. Honest Reporting has made several complaints (and good for them for being advocates) but Honest Reporting is hardly an unbiased source. Pro-Palestinian supporters have complained about CBC coverage as well.

    And I don’t really understand what people want from the CBC re abortion. A large majority of Canadians support a woman’s right to choose. And yeh, everybody has their own red line but isn’t that why we support the idea of a woman’s right to choose her own red line. And remember over 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester. Nobody is having abortions the day before the due date. I can’t recall the last time we had an abortion story but when it does pop up it is usually Conservatives trying to shut up some back bencher because they know the abortion topic is not popular.

    And I am not sure what this means when people say the CBC is pro First Nations and pro LGBT as if they should be anti First Nations and anti LGBT. I know I know people say they want both sides but what exactly is the other side. That some First Nations communities have corrupt leaders? I have read those stories on CBC. I am somewhat confused over the trans issue. That’s because I have heard both views on the CBC.

    I don’t know Harvey. We all have our biases but listening to the CBC reporting on the premiers meeting with Trudeau, I am starting to like Doug Ford. And listening to Carney’s speech I thought he might be a good Prime Minister but then Althea Rai blew that idea out of the water when she said his French was horrible and that he would have a hard time in any debate with Poilievre. If the CBC were doing the job people say they are doing shouldn’t I dislike Conservatives like Ford and have no doubts about the next Liberal leader. The reporting was so unbiased that I came away not disliking Danielle Smith over her position. lol

    Bias is a tough topic because we all have them both conscious and unconscious. It would be fun if all of us here watched The National together for a few nights and tried to determine what agenda if any the reporters had. I am sure there would be vast differences of opinion.

    (Response: I don’t think CBC bias is a “tough topic” at all: I believe their far left biases are easily identifiable by anyone who watches (or listens) with a critical eye (or ear). Now, that doesn’t mean I personally don’t share some of the views they support; however, any news source … especially a publicly financed one … has a duty to cover both or even several sides of any issues … and let the public reach their own conclusions. For example, on abortion, I support a women’s right to choose, but there are millions of Canadians who oppose abortion …some completely, others except in special circumstances … but I never see those Canadians’ views given any air time, let alone equal or fair expression. On the other issues I cited, the CBC decidedly fails that journalistic requirement: offering up overwhelmingly slanted, sympathetic, supportive views, little or no critical challenges or questioning and even ignoring the rights of those with opposing opinions to join the conversation. That’s not news …it’s propaganda. And that’s very dangerous, when repeated over and over, hour after hour, day after day! Again, I don’t want the CBC to disappear; just be fair and balanced … which in my view it currently isn’t even close! H.o)

  9. nonconfidencevote says:

    It would be far too complicated to “pick and choose” what (or who) stays or goes.
    CBC tv deserves to be completely shut down.
    It’s ratings are in the basement.
    It’s biased slant on everything pro 1st Nations, pro LGBTQx2, pro Palestine, pro Liberal, pro NDP is nauseating.

    Sell it’s film vault to pay the severance packages to the staff.

    End it.
    Keep CBC Radio….for now.

    OR if gutting the CBC is too politically unpalatable…..
    Remove all govt funding.
    Let it run on it’s own merit.
    It should last about 1 month under its current mandate.

    (Response: I could understand and maybe even agree with your feelings CBC TV should be completely shut down IF private broadcasters were well covering/representing the country (rural areas as well as the big cities). But the fact is private media bosses have stripped their own stations bare, laid off so many people and cut coverages so much, they are failing Canadians terribly. So, like t or not, Canada NEEDS the CBC ..but a CBC that reflects the “true” north, not just the far, far left and their agenda(s). H.o)

  10. Chuck B says:

    Art Smith has it right … terminate the lot at CBC and let them re-apply for their jobs.
    Didn’t President Ronal Reagan terminate all air traffic controllers in the US … he had the guts … now we will see what PP does … interesting year coming up …

    (Response: i hope he does more than defund: because if he does not, the incompetents will remain in charge … probably more angry and more actively biased than ever! h.o)

  11. RIsaak says:

    The recently announced plan to hire new reporters using google’s money leaves me wondering what the interviews will be like?

    We do not need more Rosemary Bartons.

    Technology & innovation have eclipsed the news needs of isolated citizens, satellite dishes for all, far cheaper.

    Executive bonuses aplenty also need to end. Such blatant propagandizing deserves pink slips not bonuses.

    Media subsidies as a whole are dangerous, the entire news business requires a fresh perspective which contains economic self sustaining measures.

    I read loads of different media, always checking the news against the editorial agenda of each outlet. Sadly today’s CBC has one of the lengthiest lists to consider.

    Mr.Carney seems to be the current benefactor of CBC’s cheerleaders, Mr.Singh is jealous this week.

    CBC has become Iran’s Canadian outlet for sure.

    (Response: I’m not sure about Iran …but certainly feel it gives far too uncritical airtime to Palestinian, even Hamas, supporters … letting them say anything they want without challenge and running hours of carefully edited selective provided , while seemingly finding it almost impossible to find anyone who likes/supports Netanyahu or Israel and failing to run many IDF or Israeli-media provided videos showing evidence of terrorist arms/rockets/infrastructures … even inside mosques, hospitals and UN buildings. Disgraceful one-sidedness. H.o)

  12. Gilbert says:

    I used to think it was important to keep the CBC, but now I’m not so sure. It’s not a neutral broadcaster. You say most Canadians support abortion, but do they support it at all stages? Do they support the use of tax dollars for that? Is it right that we have abortion on demand, but medically necessary treatment often takes a very long time to receive? This should all be a matter of debate, but it seems the CBC has little time for views that are not far-left.

    (Response: Very good point. There are different stages/timing/reasons/rationales involving abortions and people each have their own “red lines’. But we agree “it seems the CBC has little time for views that are not far-left.” That’s my major point ..on this and many other issues, like pipelines, First Nations’ demands/payouts (or is it payoffs?), environmental programs, Gaza etc. etc …some of them very conservative and opposed to the “progressive” views … but my studied conclusion is the CBC shows terrible biases over and over favouring the far left. one-sided point of view … disgracing its journalistic duties. It must be purged of those responsible, but should be saved to return to what it used to represent, as outlined in its original mandate. H.o)

  13. D. M. Johnston says:

    As we see the North American media circling the toilet bowel, I have come to believe that the CBC should be saved, but as you state, purged.

    I tried to listen to the “Wee P” with his latest news conference, briefing or photo-op (have your choice) and he is appearing almost as unhinged as the 34 count Felon,Mango Mussolini who is going to run the show down south for the next four years (or will he?).

    Today’s media is a far cry from the days you were working and as you have pointed out many times, things are not good.

    Democracy cannot survive, with a good, muck-raking press as again, we the the American Election was won on a series of lies, fake news, and alternative facts, repeated over and over by their hedge fund controlled media.

    As i mused in a previous post, we are being blinded by raw hate and those who wish to grift, if not destroy our country thrive on hate.

    I do not listen to the CBC and the last time I did listen in 2020 (I was out in the sticks and it was the only media I could receive) I was deeply disturbed how utterly bad it was.

    The CBC desperately needs to be reformed but the “Wee P” trying to destroy it is more than troublesome. In fact from what I can see of the Conservatives is even more than troublesome. My spidy senses tells me, “beware of flag wavers”.

    The conservatives will be elected, no question, but I believe that within six months voters remorse will be so great as the “Wee P” and his Conservatives try to MAGA-tize Canada, he/they will be held in high odor on the level of Mr. Trudeau.

    (Response: I’m surprised how almost no one has questioned/challenged publicly the CBC’s bias way before now. For example, I have NEVER seen on the CBC a fair say being given to right-to-life anti-abortion supporters. It’s not a matter of the fact that most Canadians support a woman’s right to choose: the fact is millions of Canadians hold alternative views, based on their religious faith or conservative principles … and,as journalists … especially the public broadcaster, it is the duty of the CBC to report their views as well. Instead, what I see on this issue …and so many others … is just one-sided leftist advocacy disguised as “news” or “analysis” … and that has to stop. Poilievre should publicly pledge to purge the activists using the public broadcaster as their private platform. h.o)

  14. Art Smith says:

    Hi Harvey, if the CBC is to be saved, everyone currently employed there must be terminated. I believe there is a culture there which must be eradicated completely and fully or it will just emerge in a different form, but with no real change. I hope the left-wing cess-pool will be drained, obliterated, never again to again sully the airwaves. I don’t mean those with a lefty point of view will not be able to be heard there, just that all sides of any discussion will be given a chance to be heard. I think that is where management really dropped the ball and allowed only one view-point to be aired. On-air personalities should be as neutral as possible or declare publicly who they are pumping for. I think most people want to see hardball questioning of all parties, not just the government opposition.

    (Response: I don’t believe everyone has to go: the problem, in my opinion, lies mostly with editorial executives, managers, producers who provide direction … pushing their own biases and agendas … and then the journalists who either agree or lack the ethical backbone to stand up for fair and balanced reporting, and asking tough questions of all “leaders’ they interview who make accusations or demands … whether they are women’s rights spokespersons, First Nations chiefs, illegal immigrant supporters, climate change “green” activists and politicians of every ilk! Like the CBC used to do!! h.o)

  15. Ijustdontknowanymore says:

    If the CBC team leadership can’t get their act together, figure it out, then they deserve everything coming. If Polliviere is truly coming, then that’s going to be ton of bricks reigning down them. How stupid for the CBC not read these tea leaves and change on their own, because they will changed by someone else.

    (Response: I suspect the brass knows financial cuts to programming etc are coming, but I’d bet they feel their editorial “independence” is so entrenched, no government would dare to interfere. While i understand that and am somewhat concerned myself about what that entail, I believe the far-left biases, prejudices and activism … especially in their Mid-East “never report anything positive regarding Israel” biases, the CBC has actually contributed to the growth on anti-Semitism in Canada … and intervention is now a MUST! h.o.)

  16. Marge says:

    $1.44 billion dollars from the government plus $500 million in advertising to produce mediocre material at best and propaganda at most? The spokes person for the Liberal/NDP parties, the CBC has long lost its way and needs to be disbanded. I was told that because of the amount of dough they get from the government they undercut other groups and steal their advertising because they can afford to undercharge!
    I used to watch some of their shows such as Murdoch Mysteries but the show is not based on historical facts about what life was like in Toronto at the turn of the century. Its stories are lame and its actors not the greatest. The only show I watch is “Still Standing” which showcases small towns in Canada and is of some interest, although of late it has been pandering to FN communities with the result that the interest is just not there. In other words, the CBC has nothing to entertain us, other than horrify us with how it covers the “news”!
    And then we have the politics. Oh, the politics where Trudeau’s song and dance was promoted to all and sundry. Every “broadcaster” would do something about how awful the other party was and how wonderful Justin Trudeau was. Remember how they tried to sue the Conservative during the last election and it failed, but just the same, what public broadcasting company does that in the interest of all Canadians? Remember Danielle Smith’s election in Alberta where they broadcast the same story trying to sway votes and, in the end, they said they couldn’t verify the story at all! All in the vain hope of an NDP victory.
    Then we have their pro Muslim stance and everything Jewish, being bad or evil at worst. Consistently, the CBC has presented a view of the war, distorted in Hamas’ favour and anti Israeli. You only have to look how it covers the protests throughout Canada to see how poorly they were presented by the CBC. In a column to the Toronto Sun, Warren Kinsella actually revealed that the CBC has a committee to directly oversee its coverage of Israel and Jewish journalists are routinely left out of the dialogue.
    So yes, I do hope the CBC is disbanded. Like CNN, it has been bleeding viewership but unlike CNN, this is with the blessing of the Trudeau Liberals. Let it stand on its own, cut the money and you will see how fast its “journalist” realign with the truth and how many the bloated corporation has to let go. It is worth a shot and I hope that it is done asap.

    (Response: I do not agree that the CBC should be totally disbanded. As critical as I have been about their current bias and lack of journalistic standards and ethics, in my view, I think it would be even worse if Canadians had to depend solely on private broadcasters for their news and information and coverage of issues. Private broadcasters have already reduced their local coverage in major cities to an abysmal low number of staff and lack of experienced reporters, resulting in sometimes a total inability to delve into major issues, beyond press, conferences, fire calls, traffic, accidents, and lost dogs. Just imagine how little coverage there would be in rural areas… small towns and even small cities, if it were left to the resources and staffing levels of private broadcasters. The CBC must be saved and rehabilitated, not disbanded. Ho)

  17. Chuck B says:

    And top CBC brass get bonuses!! For my money the CBC should be stopped of all the 1.4 billion dollars now … and then let them survive as the PBS does in the US. This way they have to raise their own money for operating … not from the public coffers ..
    Whatever PP does when in office, is fine with me … as a former private broadcaster, I always found it that we had to work out butts off to survive with commercials … now lets see if the so called “brass” could survive if they had to raise money to survive …

    (Response: The CBC’s role is a bit different from PBS in the US… where there are a myriad of private networks and cable news choices. But it sure seems to me the CBC, over the past few years, has been taken over by a cabal of far left militants who push their agenda, rather than fairly canvassing and offering up various sides of both domestic and foreign issues. It must get back to real reporting … and asking tough questions of all sides … not just pushing ideas/positions they favour. h.o.)

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