My daily read of the Toronto Sun (Sun Media Inc) doesn’t disappoint today (never does). And not just because columnist Peter Worthington takes much the same viewpoint as me on the state-run CBC division of the Liberal Party.
To wit:
1. “The CBC should be forbidden from competing with the private sector.”
2. “Stay off the air CBC, Canada is better off without you.”
(and more…)
And he says this good stuff:
So far, what the lockout has done is proved, or confirmed, that the CBC is grotesquely out of touch with Canadians. Or, to put it as the CBC might prefer, the lockout proves how out of touch most Canadians are with the CBC.
Despite its depiction of itself as Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC’s agenda is not the agenda of most Canadians. Never has been, doesn’t want to be. The CBC is not accountable to the public.
Of course, some sulk over the temporary loss of regular CBC broadcasts. Andrea Stewart seems one. In her letter to the National Post she describes herself as: “I’m not ‘left-wing,’ but a lifelong listener to CBC radio who enjoys unbiased, informative and commercial-free radio.”
Well, Ms. Stewart may enjoy “unbiased, informative” radio, but she sure doesn’t get it on the CBC.
Commercial-free, yes, but CBC biases are acute, and the information it broadcasts is selective, to say the least.
CBC’s anti-Americanism is legendary.
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(He doesn’t go far enough in his criticism. No criticism is complete without strenuously urging for the complete dismantling (sell-off/privatization/cease-the-taxpayer-funding) of the state-run media.)
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