Nope! They’re not communists!
As I said in a couple of blog entries down, the media in Canada is now so liberal-left they no longer even recognize themselves as liberals. They just think they’re normal.
Ted Byfield writes an excellent piece in the Calgary Sun today—a piece which will of course be considered blasphemous among the liberal-left. This is largely because he reveals a little truth about liberals, and he makes immense sense.
He’s talking about the former chairman of the state-run media (the CBC division of the Liberal Party), Patrick Watson.
[…] At the very core of the man’s thinking is a view of public broadcasting, so deeply rooted he doesn’t even know it’s there.
It begins and ends with one unexamined assumption: We know what this country is supposed to be. It’s our job to tell you what that is, and to make sure you follow the “Canadian Way,” which is left-wing, nanny-state, anti-American, and very anti-Alberta. […]
But I’m jumping ahead. First, these sensible non-liberal words leaked out of his brain:
Patrick Watson, former chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and inarguably one of the country’s most gifted television producers, has come up with a solution to the CBC strike.
What we should do, he says, is abolish the CBC, put out specifications on what would be expected from a “new public system,” and call tenders.
The first obligation of the winning contestant would be “to serve citizens with a view of Canada and the world that will assist us to be effective citizens.”
The new system will therefore “offer a consistent, reasoned, informed and diligent challenge to power, and a questioning of the civic values promoted by commerce.”
Notice the reasoning.
To be an “effective citizen” of Canada, one must “question the civic values promoted by commerce.”
That’s why we need a new public broadcaster—to question “commerce.”
We are surrounded by government. We live in one of the most over-governed, over-regulated, over-taxed countries in the western world.
Beyond taxing us half way into poverty, we have a government that tells us how we must raise our children, what kind of jokes we can tell; what sort of people we must hire; what parts of the Bible we can and cannot read publicly, and where, whether, when, and how often we may smoke.
So what we need, says Patrick Watson, is a new public broadcaster that will enable us to better question “commerce.”
The possibility of questioning government he nowhere mentions.
Fabian socialists.
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