I have the luxury or privilege …. no let me start again.
It’s be nice to myself day. I’m smart enough and had enough foresight — and was an actual conservative — some 25 years ago, that I was able to easily see that having a state-owned, state-funded — state media — the CBC — was an grave error in a free country. Today others are agreeing. I welcome this. Makes me think my hard work was worth it.
I’m glad all of that really hard, sometimes unpopular, always expensive and very, very risky (the state-owned CBC threatened to sue me at least once as did others associated with them) work from me, and from a very few others, has finally paid off.
I have too many CBC-related articles to point to over that time. But I did also have the foresight to categorize them into these categories (I’m a champ, yes?). Not all were categorized because I’m not an ace administrator and I was often in a hurry; and left uncategorized were particularly those great articles written by our columnists, who we categorized under their own name for technical 1990s internet reasons. So here’s those categories:
• CBC Archives – PTBC (proudtobecanadian.ca)
• CBC Lewdity Archives – PTBC (proudtobecanadian.ca)
• CBC.ca Reader Comments Archives – PTBC (proudtobecanadian.ca)
I’m glad the rest of Canada — including the Conservative Party, finally, has caught up to what many of us back in the day all agreed: that a free country, a democracy, a free market, should not have a state media. Not state-owned, not state-funded, and not state-run or one where the state appoints those who drive the big red clown car.
Now that it’s popular idea and there is no risk to stating it openly, I’m glad so many people feel the freedom to call-out the state-owned CBC.
I’m glad they finally admit it.
There are, included in one or more of the above categories, articles explaining that in fact, contemporaneously that is, the Conservative Party fully — fully — supported the state-owned CBC. It was much to my dismay.
Times have changed. As if by magic. Finally. Yay.
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