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" - ThreadSky

lidsville.bsky.social • 1 day ago

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"

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lidsville.bsky.social•1 day ago

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

shiftkicker.bsky.social•1 day ago

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.

lidsville.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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

shiftkicker.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Cynical, but very very appropriate. oof. I'd like to think better of them, but survival is a strong driver.

lidsville.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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

shiftkicker.bsky.social•22 hours ago

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!

shiftkicker.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Surely they understand they're out if PP has anything to say about it. He's got his own entirely uncritical media friends already.

lidsville.bsky.social•23 hours ago

That's the thing - pandering to the right isn't that smart, tactically, yet they all reflexively keep on doing it.

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

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