Saving the CBC isn't just about protecting your favourite program or personality. It's about preserving national unity -- and preventing Canada from being subject to a hostile foreign takeover. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/19/opinion/saving-cbc-saving-canada-poilievre
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It's why I'm breathing a little more easily that CBC is reaching out to smaller locales. For too many years it was 'BigCity' centric. I grew up when CBC SK noon hour show did ag reports & gave urban ppl a view of what was happening outside city borders.
Now?
More outreach needed to rural!
If ever it is sold off, either it will be a jewel in the portfolio of a megalomaniacal billionaire, or an appendage to the interest of a foreign national government.
Either way, Canada's cultural heritage will disappear.
Print and radio news is high value.
Canadian content syndicated dramas and entertainment are replicating what’s already in the market.
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That might mean a leaner CBC, or a much better resourced news operation.
It needs to be explored objectively.
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I don't think that model will work here. Scale matters.
Yes, I’m serious.
$54B for nothing every year.
We can’t afford discretion, and homeless and starving people don’t need TV. They need basic needs met.
We could be providing any number of life essential services instead of sitcoms and the like.
(And it’s nice to see old acquaintances like you here.)
While the products can be licensed for royalties outside Canadian markets, even possibly profitably, the economic multiplier on cultural industries is far lower than health, social services, or infrastructure development.
Canada has limited resources. We’re paying the federal value of health care nationally to service *interest costs* on the national debt. I’ll pick humans over TV every day.
Who we're being governed by is being HEAVILY influenced by right-leaning US hedge fund bros who take over paper after paper and let go national treasures like @deadder.bsky.social without a second thought.
Fox entertainment
I call it Fox propaganda
We need to consider what our country looks like if all our media is China, Russian, US, or Indian owned.
It tells me that Poilievre doesn’t value Canada at all! He wants us to be part of America!
A traitor.
I think "the CBC" needs to be taken back to the studs and completely renovated more than it needs to be "saved".
But if the choice is killing or saving it, I’ll gladly choose the latter.
But actual separatism in action requires a referendum with an overwhelming majority. That’s not going to happen.
#ProtectTheCBC #ExpandTheCBC #ProtectCanadianPublicBroadcasting
CBC radio is ad-free and has some interesting shows. If their video programs didn't have adverts I'd actually watch it sometimes aswell. Plus then they'd be able to call out any corporation they feel like!
I have a lot of faith in Pascale!
for example, they have a distinct anti-Palestine bias
i don't know what you mean by "preserving national unity", but i don't value a pro-genocide media bias
There’s a few other I could say the same thing. But I’m so disappointment with her because earlier in her career she really was bias and it’s evidently no longer the case.
Postmedia will welcome her with open arms.
She never challenged Harper's conservatives. She was scared of them.
Then I saw that she just laid the boots to Trudeau Liberals.
Rosemary Barton is a fraud.
She wouldn't stand up to Harper conservatives.
Then she took the boots to the Trudeau Liberals.
David Cochrane speaks up, asks tough questions.
Information and news isn't just collected from a daily newspaper and a TV news channel any more.
Reading and comprehension skills matter too.
65% of America read below the sixth grade level.
I hope Canadians are more perceptive.
Why are you here?
This is a news dissemination site too.
It's a world wide search.
If you want CBC then fine.
CBC had been with me all my life.
Barton was a fraud.
She was elevated.
I'm Canadian but I care not one way or the other for CBC.
Who will say, "Answer the question." On repeat.
No more both sides.
But people still have to seek it out.
I grew up with and lived with CBC for sixty years. Radio.
News without confirmation and insight is pablum.
The last time I checked in on Cross Country Checkup was several weeks ago. Amidst the turmoil in America and rising concern for authoritarianism in Canada; Topic: How did you meet your hero/idol? And how did you feel?
I was once a CBC habitueé.
I would pay a small sub fee, but it would need to stay ad-free and free to all listeners to retain its value and high quality semi-independant programming. *
* (in that the pod/show creators are given a lot of freedom compared to a for-profit media outlet)
Plus English speaking content has a wide audience.
I was looking for the authentic Wiener schnitzel recipe & I stumbled on DW Food (english subtitle) (Deutsche Vella). CBC should be doing this kind of short content too!
https://youtu.be/O3H9UDtiTTg?si=M1L7Rhv7hlifAkAe
CBC seems like an old department in the government where change happens at a snails pace & the management is the same from one successor to another.
YouTube gives CBC that much wider audience.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts