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As I wrote before, I think we should make note of companies who advertise on the state-owned CBC—its web site and TV stations. And then make consumer choices based partially on that very important information. It’s what makes the well-armed dynamic trio of freedom, democracy, and free market capitalism so great. We get to vote with every dollar we choose to spend, with every purchase we choose to make. Victory through superior firepower, as we say.
The companies who advertise on the overtly left-wing, socialism-reliant, state-owned CBC are arguably supporting it, purposely or not, and whether they know it or not. Voting for it, if you will. They’re collectively supporting it financially, to the tune of about $600 MILLION per year—money which could be spent, again by choice, advertising at other, private citizen-owned businesses and web sites (perhaps right-wing, capitalist ones!), thus spurring more private sector, free-market, capitalist economic activity; or at least not supporting the CBC. These companies are also arguably choosing, purposely or not, and whether they know it or not, to provide what some people might see as their tacit sponsorship, brand endorsement, and attaching their very “goodwill” to the state-owned, socialism-reliant, left-wing CBC brand, and providing their moral support for this left-wing, socialism-reliant, state-owned media. And so politics and values come into this too.
I think it’s a pretty horrendous display of anti-capitalist behavior on the part of those you’d expect would actually do everything they could to promote just the opposite brand of economic and social values (although I can understand abortion mills, tattoo parlors, and Tourismo Cuba advertising on the CBC). If they want to go on pretending that the CBC isn’t political, isn’t clearly left wing, and that the CBC isn’t making left wing social, economic, political, and values statements all day long, then fine. If they endorse the government working against its own citizens, then fine. We’ll make our choices with that information in mind.
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It’s obviously the right of every company to advertise where they choose. Everybody is free to be idiotic, free to support socialism, and free to offend those of us against whom socialism and its media and cultural and economic tentacles like a socialism-reliant, anti-conservative, state-owned media work, at our own taxpayer expense.
Similarly, it’s our right as citizens to point all of this out and push back as we see fit.
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So here is a list of recent advertisers on CBC.ca, the state-owned socialism-reliant web site paid for largely with our tax dollars with the support of these companies. The list will also be posted along the side of this web site.
One more note. As you can see, it’s getting increasingly and frustratingly difficult, in this country, to make consumer choices as we see best, when, for example, both WestJet and Air Canada both support the CBC through advertising. I say a plague on both your houses. Fly an American airline. (Just don’t take the state-owned Via Rail!). .jpg "image"){kind=small}
Also: It’s particularly galling to see (as we do) other government departments, like the RCMP and the Canadian Forces, spending their (our) advertising budgets for recruitment, at the CBC—which is another division of the government, but which competes against citizen-owned enterprises for advertising dollars (among other things). They already get in excess of one BILLION dollars per year in taxpayer cash, so this is actually an additional source of taxpayer cash that is being funneled into the CBC from one taxpayer-supported hand to another. It’s like another slight of hand trick being played on you by your government. (And can you think of a worse place to advertise the Armed Forces or the RCMP? And can you think of a better place? Hello!)
(UPDATE: This list is now expanded and posted along the right side of PTBC for the duration of the “campaign”)
Air Canada
AOL Travel
CIBC (Bank of Commerce)
Desjardins (insurance)
H&R Block
iContact email marketing
Monster.ca
Neutrogena
RBC (Royal bank)
Rogers Cable
Shaw Cable
Tim Hortons
Vonage
WeightWatchers
Westjet
with solid information, and with screen-captured pictures of the advertising if possible.
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