Seems a lot of media still labour under very simplistic ideas of "balance," "objectivity" & "impartiality" which "both sides" is a further degraded version of. These concepts were already dated when I taught them decades ago to Communication undergrads in "Political Economy of Canadian Media"
Never mind that "both sides" in this country" tends to be two sides of a manufactured mainstream: a right-of-centre "centrism" and the far-right (both of them often white). A lot of "sides" are missing entirely
It's just an intellectual exercise to them & they're unable to see that there are very real, very dangerous results from their fun philosophical/political discussions. It's absolutely failure to see anything outside a very narrow band of experience. A complete lack of empathy & imagination.
I suspect their bothsidesism only pretends to be "balanced" but is probably a pure political calculation: to hedge their bets they play off a Liberal party-friendly viewpoint against a Poilievre Conservative-friendly one. This way CBC panders to whichever of their future masters wins the election
Looked at more structurally, I think part of the reason CBC panders to power is that it's the lowest-funded public broadcaster in the Commonwealth by a decent margin & is insufficiently arms length. Oddly the Heritage Minister flagged this problem 2 days ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/heritage-minister-cbc-radio-canada-1.7463926
I was thrilled to hear the proposal, and despite my grumbling that changes to funding should have been made ages ago, I sure hope it gets sorted before the election (doubt it, but one can hope). Also, noted in that article- performance quality is directly influenced by funding levels. Who knew!
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Touring with Dick Cheney didn't help Kamala Harris at all but these types just keep doing it. You guys: the far right is just not that into you