A month ago I blogged about how the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC nearly always describes good, perfectly normal, mainstream groups like the Fraser Institute, which simply stands up for freedom, and free markets, and the same private enterprise which built this country, as “right-wing”, or “right of center”, or sometimes “conservative”, or some other (they seem to think) ominous political moniker —as if to warn Canadians to take what they’re reporting with a huge grain of salt.
And I said that when they report on far-left socialist groups like the Canadians Centre for Policy Alternatives (where the “alternative” is socialism), if they apply any political label to them at all whatsoever, they almost always allow them to define themselves.
Here’s the last line in an article at the state-owned CBC.ca today, regarding a report by that socialist group advocating the insane notion that the purchase of F-35 fighter jets is not needed (reading the report is hilarious, but that’s another issue):
“The CCPA is an Ottawa-based research institute that calls itself one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.”
The reporters at the socialism-reliant CBC, quite ironically, can’t seem to come to grips with or even acknowledge the obvious political label “socialist”, or “left-wing”, or in this case, “far left-wing.” That term “progressive” sure sounds better, doesn’t it?
Oh and hey CBC, a little question: Who DID do the report for that far-left socialist group the CCPA?
Answer: A guy named Steven Staples, whom the CBC constantly employs for his objective “analysis” of all things defense, war, or arms-related. I’ve written about him before. He’s the one who created a website and organization based on his inspiration from what all intellectually honest folks acknowledge is the extreme left-wing web site and organization MoveOn.org. I’m not making that up —he admitted that.
Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute — a far-left advocate who admits being inspired by MoveOn.org, and who is (therefore?) often employed by the socialism-reliant CBC for news “analysis” for Canadians. They never label him, either, choosing instead to pass him off as perfectly objective.
It’s all the more reason the CBC should have, as any intellectually honest news broadcaster would have, made an emphatic point of providing Canadians with the left-wing label to the group who conducted the report, since it is inherently politically biased, and about the self-acknowledged left-wing guy who wrote it for them.
Clearly, the left-wing bona fides of the parties in question may just possibly taint the report’s conclusions and Canadians’ understanding of it. But then the report was reported on by a news organization that is deeply ingrained with a far-left political culture, created and nurtured by liberals and progressives and socialists, which is state-owned and socialism-reliant. Are you really going to take this as intellectually honest or objective considering all THAT?
We hope not.
See a Steven Staples-related link here at PTBC:
- CBC presents left-wing peacenik to answer gratuitous question re Afghanistan: “IS MISSION WORTH IT?”
- CBC once again masquerades leftist peacenik group as neutral “think tank” on Afghanistan war
Edited March 31, 2022, for formatting-related adjustments and grammar.
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