This is just insufferable back-patting. Zero critical reflection or self-awareness of what they did, and the choices they made. Just none. The state of media isn't fit for purpose in the current moment, and nobody wants to learn a gods damned lesson. - ThreadSky

journodale.bsky.social • 5 days ago

This is just insufferable back-patting. Zero critical reflection or self-awareness of what they did, and the choices they made. Just none.
The state of media isn't fit for purpose in the current moment, and nobody wants to learn a gods damned lesson.

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michaelincanada.bsky.social•5 days ago

He put on Kevin O'Leary and today he dons the shroud of innocence. Pathetic by Fenlon and by the CBC.

No comments allowed on Fenlon's defensive 'trust us and learn something' blog post.

Kevin Fucking O'Leary and Fenlon thinks Canadians should take him seriously. Was Brett Wilson all booked up?

pixiepenny.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/pixiepenny.bsky.social/post/3liwr7zthmc2o

goodmimi.bsky.social•5 days ago

Brodie Fenlon, the only thing you achieved with your broadcast was giving oxygen to the orange felon’s threats against our sovereignty as a nation and let Kevin O’Leary add his 2 cents.

ibrooks.bsky.social•5 days ago

Their capitulatory argument is the free speech equivalent of stochastic terrorism.

loyalcdndclord.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cbc learned nothing. Nadda. Zip. Zilch.

pwramsey.bsky.social•5 days ago

Click bait drew clicks -- tune in for details at 11.

berlinskyjohn.bsky.social•5 days ago

51st State is not just a "newsy topic." It's a threat against Canada. Whatever CBC claims "our intent" was, their actions reinforced Trump's threat, lent it legitimacy and normalcy, and amplified Trumpian noise, further drowning out news of the crimes he is committing in the US and against Ukraine.

anakhari.bsky.social•5 days ago

The media, at work again in moving the Overton Window.

eastpole.bsky.social•5 days ago

A quote from the back-pat: "The flood of heated complaints by people who had not yet heard the program is also an interesting litmus test of the state of our nation: many Canadians are apparently so fed up by Trump's 51st state rhetoric, they will no longer tolerate it ...

eastpole.bsky.social•5 days ago

and greatly fear it being given a serious airing." Uh, what? It's not rhetoric, it's the threat of violence. I'm neither fed up with it nor am I sick of it; it's just wrong and repeating it compounds the wrong. CBC should report that Trump is making threats that break international law.

eastpole.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not gather us around the fire on a Sunday evening to talk about how we feel about our future as a cold, snowy Puerto Rico.

jk709.bsky.social•5 days ago

Silenced callers from Quebec and Atlantic provinces.
No fact checking treasonous lies by O'Leary.
Brodie calls this a success.
If the goal was RageBait for bigger audience I guess it was a success.

sarome4.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’ve never been more angry @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup and I’m out. Never will I ever. Provocative and sensationalist. I expect more from our Canadian broadcaster.

margaretdumont.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Beaverton has more self-awareness + a better understanding of the existential threat to the country than @ianhanomansing.bsky.social. They could have included CBC reporter Evan Dyer, who wrote a very good recent article about the threat but opted instead for clickbait. https://bsky.app/profile/thebeaverton.com/post/3liwnclyfus2i

margaretdumont.bsky.social•5 days ago

Between Trump's tariff threats and the annexation threats and a coming federal election, this is the absolute wrong/worst time for our national broadcaster to abandon its mission so despicably.

buetter.bsky.social•5 days ago

What a patronizing f*cking tone they’ve taken here.
They should have been conciliatory and recognized with that volume of complaints, some thought should have went into preventing this fiasco. Not a good look for the national broadcaster, they really did Canada - and Canadians - wrong yesterday.

wolfeden9653.bsky.social•5 days ago

I agree with you!!

halifaxrunner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well played CBC. You've convinced the left that the CBC should be de-funded.

shane555.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or, we all support structural change that includes some type of citizens assembly in redesign or citizen oversight.

Let’s not sell off all our assets, it benefits the wrong people

mjr-humphries.bsky.social•5 days ago

Inviting O’Leary to represent Canadians is like inviting Judas to represent Christians. It was a knowing betrayal of Canada and Canadians. Disgraceful.

erulux.bsky.social•5 days ago

takforalt.bsky.social•5 days ago

I suppose an upside, if there is one, is a greater audience got to see/hear what an absolute anti-🇨🇦, pro-Trump ass he is. That said, it is baffling & offensive that @brodiefenlon.bsky.social thought giving him a mic was a good idea. He was always the worst Dragon & hasn’t been a de facto 🇨🇦 in yrs.

rebeccamcclure.com•5 days ago

The dude doesn’t deserve the platform.

takforalt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly. I fail to understand the appeal he holds for any #cdnmedia. He’s not well-informed. Not thoughtful or insightful. Isn’t respected. Lacking in good moral character. Has no ones best interests at ❤️ other than his own.
He’s deplorable & should never be platformed by 🇨🇦’s national broadcaster.

shuilian.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is the problem. The inescapable conclusion is that those qualities are WHY he was invited. And that is such a huge red flag to me that something is going very wrong at CBC.

takforalt.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes. I’ve been a real advocate for @cbcnews.ca for decades. It’s been more and more difficult to do that over the last decade. Sadly there’s not much that differentiates them from the other corporate sources.

rebeccamcclure.com•5 days ago

He gets big reactions. That’s his only appeal.

takforalt.bsky.social•5 days ago

The only reaction he deserves is a channel change. But, you’re not wrong. CBC is as addicted to clicks as any of the corporate outlets.

brobertson93.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/brobertson93.bsky.social/post/3liwqbh4ucc2f

wandavanisle.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even if every single caller denounced the unprovoked threat of annexation by a hostile super power or even the premise of the show, the fact that O’Leary was featured removes all legitimacy of this being in good faith

cindyricecakes.bsky.social•4 days ago

#Facts

radlady.bsky.social•5 days ago

pbparfait.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nobody that listens to the CBC wants to hear OLeary.

regcalgary.bsky.social•5 days ago

They're still completely missing the point. Sad.

troyliss.bsky.social•5 days ago

No acknowledgment that they were also being criticized by peers in the industry, or that the main concern was the framing of Trump’s threats and insults as “comments”, and the invitation to imagine being already annexed. I don’t disagree with the topic, but with how ham-handed and tone deaf they are

erulux.bsky.social•5 days ago

This made me boiling mad. It was absolutely sickening. And then have the nerve to call it journalism.

ilikenewspapers.bsky.social•5 days ago

Agreed. "The lions shall sit down with the lambs" is a fairy tale, not a basis for national journalism at a time of crisis

jacquelinesteudler.bsky.social•4 days ago

CBC now gaslighting us even more. Disgusting. @ianhanomansing.bsky.social has to be fired for harming the sovereignty of Canada.

dpoolie.bsky.social•5 days ago

CBC: "Do your own research"

gertruxe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Debating the issue gives it breath. Breath gives life…

taniaspencer.bsky.social•5 days ago

@ianhanomansing.bsky.social made the same egregious mistake as did @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, just a week ago. Both should have read the room -

"And at this point in history, we simply cannot afford this kind of normalizing coverage":

https://www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analyzing-trumps-unhinged-ideas

goodfibrations.bsky.social•5 days ago

And I suspect it was far more than a few hundred.

tinkiegurl.bsky.social•4 days ago

There were thousands of complaints all across social media.

nadwe.bsky.social•5 days ago

I watched the ENTIRE cross-border broadcast, and it was a fantastic and open discussion with BOTH Americans and Canadians. It did NOT give credence to tRump's threats, just the opposite!! I welcome this type of open discussion!!

canuckamock.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yours is the third post I have seen like this...almost word for word.

kitchieg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Seems like that is a bot alert.

traveling4life.bsky.social•4 days ago

They must have watched a different show than I did and missed Shane from Sask, American Tr**p supporter who thinks Canada needs to be freed, the other American who thought we should be one nation, I could go on . They must have also missed O'Leary with all the disinformation and no fact checking.

nadwe.bsky.social•4 days ago

I watched the ENTIRE broadcast, and there were 3 Canadians, including Kevin O'Leary and 2 Americans, out of ALL the callers that thought Canada should become the 51st State!!

kitchieg.bsky.social•4 days ago

It shouldn't even be a question nor considered. It is illegal, stupid, and illegal and stupid. The ONLY acceptable answer to any of it is "fuck you". There aren't two sides to this and nothing to be discussed.

tinkiegurl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Someone Bot a farm?

nadwe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Smart Canadians!!

adelleloiselle.bsky.social•5 days ago

One of the flashpoints was the decision to have Kevin O’Leary on the show. What purpose does that serve? He isn’t a political scientist or historian.
If the CBC was trying to inform Americans how this rhetoric is playing out here, why have a Trump cheerleader on the air?

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