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Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

Rebel News;

A government comedian from Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster attended a Pierre Poilievre rally last week, aiming to ambush the Conservative Party leader. […] That video bombed on social media — it was a partisan attack on Poilievre, of course, and more to the point, it just wasn’t funny.

But I noticed something at 1:15 in the video: a “jump cut” edit — the CBC deleted part of the video but didn’t cover their tracks. What were they hiding?

It obviously wasn’t Poilievre saying something embarrassing, or they would have shown that for sure. So it must have been something the CBC said.

It’s Not Hypocrisy, It’s Hierarchy

National Post- CBC lawsuit against Conservatives cost $400K, but cost was shielded from Parliament for years

“The Trudeau government has just given up on its promise of openness and accountability,” Plett told the National Post. “In this specific situation, we had to go around roadblocks that were set by the government to get an answer to my questions three years ago.”

“Somebody needs to be held accountable for this because we have the right to have these answers,” he added.

Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors

They’re on a mission from God.

Colby Cosh- CBC finds its purpose — exposing the national shopping cart crisis

Some of the CBC’s other local snapshots of the shopping-cart crisis reject this daring theory outright: in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2021, an abandoned shopping-cart problem was attributed pretty directly to sociopathic cart-abandoning customers rather than thieves. (Side question: is the word “thief” gradually becoming taboo?)

Things You’ll Never See At The CBC

Dave Snow, for The Hub;

A common argument in favour of defunding the CBC is that its news content exhibits ideological bias. In particular, it has been subject to criticism that it is too progressive and Liberal-friendly, including for instance in its recent coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and Chinese interference in Canadian elections.

However, the assumption of the CBC’s progressive bias has rarely been tested empirically. To remedy this, I conducted an analysis of the CBC’s coverage of an issue that became a sustained national news story this past fall: Saskatchewan’s parental consent policy for children’s gender pronoun changes in schools.

The public debate around Saskatchewan’s pronoun policy involves complexity, competing perspectives, and evolving public opinion. It’s the sort of issue for which the role of the news media is presumably to establish and situate the facts, present the different points of view, and help Canadians work through the nuances. Yet, as my analysis shows, that’s not how the CBC’s reporting handled the issue. […]

Across 38 articles, the CBC quoted more than five times as many critics of Saskatchewan’s policy as supporters (81 critics, 15 supporters, and five neutral). Moreover, supporters were grouped into a small number of articles, with six of the 15 supporters quoted in a single story about competing public rallies. Only 16 percent of the total articles (six of 38) quoted at least one supporter of the policy, compared to 95 percent of articles (36 of 38) that quoted at least one critic of the government’s policy. And support was never presented independent of criticism: all six articles that included a quote from a supporter also included at least one quote from a critic.

The critics quoted by the CBC were also far more likely to be in a position of authority, while supporters were almost entirely laypeople. Of the 59 critics whose opinions were sought out by the CBC, 26 were what I classify as “experts”—lawyers and legal scholars, professors, school board presidents, health professionals, and LGBTQ organizations—and a further six were teachers. The focus on expertise was even higher from those quoted from the public record: of the 22 critics who were quoted from the public record, twenty (91 percent) were experts or organizations representing experts. By contrast, CBC reporters did not seek out a single “expert” to speak in favour of Saskatchewan’s policy. Of the 13 quotes from supporters that were sought by the CBC, nine were from community members or protestors at rallies, while four were from the leaders of three small socially conservative interest groups.

No, No it Wouldn’t

National Post- Defunding CBC would be ‘devastating’ to news in rural Canada: Catherine Tait

Thomas asked her if the CBC would continue to provide Canadians with news if it was “given the opportunity to be truly independent, and set free from the shackles of government money”, as the Conservative party has been promising to do if they form government.

Tait said it would be “extremely difficult” to provide news to many of the underserved communities across Canada, such as rural and northern communities as well as francophones living in minority communities, which do not benefit from commercial private news.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

What do you do if you’re a news reporter and the biggest story of the day, if not the election, falls right into your lap?

Well, if you work for CBC Winnipeg, the answer appears to be ‘news be damned’ if it doesn’t fit the narrative being promoted at the moment.

The Black Rod happened to be on the scene when a deranged man smashed out the windows of a clearly marked CBC vehicle on Main Street in broad daylight Monday afternoon.

The female reporter cowered in the front seat, weeping while speaking to someone on her cell phone. The male camera man huddled in fear in the back seat as he, also, talked on his phone. Neither of the news crew was using their phone to capture video of the attack.

The car was parked outside of Our Place/Chez Nous at 676 Main St. just south of Higgins. The CBC team had obviously just interviewed some of the directors of the drop-in centre that’s closing after 30 years on the Strip amidst, as their CBC report later that evening put it, “growing safety concerns for those who staff it.”

Related: CBC has 144 corporate directors making six-figure salaries .

h/t Calgary Rick

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