Nope! CBC isn’t a division of the Liberal Party, nor a political toy! And this isn’t Cuba, the Soviet Union, nor even North Korea! It’s Canada! I know, I know, with stories like this story in The Hill Times, it’s a little hard to believe.
CTV News, Global News, City TV and CPAC have filed a joint complaint with the Department of National Defence for giving exclusive coverage to CBC of the state funeral of Sergeant Ernest (Smokey) Smith, the last recipient of the Victoria Cross who died earlier this month.
“Without our knowledge and without tender or consultation with other broadcast news organizations, DND assigned broadcast rights for the funeral to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,” stated the four broadcasters in an Aug. 18 letter addressed to Defence Minister Bill Graham (Toronto Centre, Ont.).
In the letter, obtained by The Hill Times, the four broadcasters also said they were “censored and denied access to a news event of important national interest,” and demand to be reimbursed for the costs CBC charged for access to the coverage of the state funeral which took place in Vancouver.
“Over the years, CTV, Global, City and CPAC have covered Canada’s last surviving Victoria Cross winner in our news and public affairs programming. His state funeral was extremely important to our viewers. In our democratic society, openness and access to public events are the foundations of our free press. On Saturday, unfortunately, we were censored and denied access to a news event of important national interest,” stated the letter signed by CTV president Robert Hurst, Global news director Steve Wyatt, City TV news and information director Bud Pierce and CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen.
The letter closes by asking Mr. Graham to explain on what authority DND made the arrangement with CBC.
The state competing against its own citizens. How Cuban. How liberal-left Canadian. Vote liberal.
If this is what liberals mean by “arm’s length”, then I hate to think what liberals mean by “hip pocket”. What I can tell you for sure is that this is an atrocious, but not unusual, example of the liberal-left at work, and should be cause for extreme embarrassment—but of course it will be quite the opposite. They wear this stuff like a badge of honor.
Their arrogance, their state-run media, and their sense of propriety is simply astounding here. But only we see that. The liberal-left find nothing wrong with any of this.
But now, let us hear from the socialists, shall we?
Ruth Ellen Soles, a CBC spokesperson, said that DND approached the public broadcaster two-and-a-half years ago to provide live coverage of the funeral for Mr. Smith.
“It happens quite a lot,” she told The Hill Times. “At the RCMP’s request, we did the Mayerthorpe memorial service [when four RCMP officers were shot and killed in an attempted raid in Mayerthorpe, Alta.], we did the funeral for the four servicemen who died in Afghanistan. We do a lot of these things because we’re the CBC, because we’re the national public broadcaster, and quite frankly because we do a remarkably good job and they know that, so we said yes.”
Ms. Behan said that the CBC was chosen to be the host broadcaster because they had experience in state funerals and other large events.
“They were basically selected because they did the funeral for Pierre Trudeau,” she said. “They were exclusive on that. They had done other military events and so that was the background.”
Gosh. What would we do without the CBC? Only government can do things right (you complete idiot Canooks). This is the Soviet Union. OK well it’s Canada but you know, country names are just letters assembled the way governments decide to assemble them.
Ms. Behan added that CBC was a natural pick because of the high costs of production involved. “We figured it cost CBC $100,000 to produce this broadcast, just this part that they were hosting,” she said. “It was a fair amount of time, effort and resources on short notice. They had to get there and had to have a mobile production facility. This is a large scale thing and I’m not sure any broadcaster could’ve done this job or had the resources and mobile facilities.”
Does the elite liberal taxpayer-funded state-employee know what “Vancouver” is? Yes, I know, it’s “western”, and it’s not “Toronto”, so it’s not nearly as sophisticated and full of smart people as the even more liberal Toronto, but it does have running water and actual sewers. And as someone who was at the Smokey Smith funeral myself, I can tell you I nearly tripped over all the CTV, Global, and other private TV crews repeatedly. I think they might have been able to manage it somehow, just as the CTV will somehow manage to point cameras during the 2010 Olympics as the official broadcaster. CTV somehow manages to produce the most-watched national news program every single day of the week. And in Vancouver, Global produces the most-watched evening news in the whole country. No, not the state-run CBC, which few watch.
CTV president Robert Hurst gets the last word: “As far as we know, the CBC is not a propaganda arm of the federal government of Canada.” Wakey, wakey, Mr. Hurst. And all the liberal sheep in Canada.
The CBC needs to be dismantled entirely. The very idea of it is an insult to all Canadians. Actually, the liberal-left is an insult to all Canadians.
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