20 Replies to “Let Me Fix That Sentence For You”

  1. They’re not run as an “arms length” away from government organization, they’re dependent / on permanent welfare for what, 70% ? of their funding.
    Time to grow up CBC.

  2. Oh those sneaky Conservatives, they “sneaked” something into the bill before presenting it to parliament. Was it invisible ink? Was it small print? What will those sneaks resort to? How low will they go?

  4. Some selective and biased reporting is inconvenient or even disruptive for those in power. So be it. No matter what the government says it wants to do with C-60, the opportunities the bill provides for muzzling CBC alleged journalism is a concern for all Canadians of a “progressive” bent.

  5. This is delicious. The Devout Leftists at the The Red Star are scared that the CBC’s editorial policy is going to start moving to the Right from the Extreme Leftist position it’s now at. From their vantage point they should frightened.
    What all Canadians should be angered about is that ANY government organization – the CBC very much being one – has ANY political viewpoint.
    In my heart of hearts I hope that if the CBC became really annoying to the Left then finally we’d have consensus that the entire thing should be gotten rid of. Or at least CBC News to begin with.

  7. Future ie non-conservative governments will use this to use the CBC. You people are short-sighted and easy to please.

  9. Well-fixed sentence. The CBC does have narrow partisan interests, and if a columnist ignores this fact the rest of the column is just an expression of support for the same narrow partisan interest.

    C-60 falls squarely in the Conservative strategy to shut down independent voices…

    Big bullshit. The CBC isn’t an “independent voice”, it’s a Lib/NDP proxy propaganda juggernaut. Did anyone else notice that when a shortened, half-hour or less version of The National was wedged between two playoff hockey games on a couple of occasions recently — i.e. when they had a captive and larger-than-usual audience of people who left the TV on between games — they doubled-up — tripled, quadrupled — their attacks on the Conservatives, and amped up their tone to an hysterical shriek?
    People who think the CBC doesn’t reflect a narrow partisan interest are either idiots or liars.
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    (The Broadcasting Act) defines the arm’s-length relationship between the government and CBC…

    An “arm’s-length” is just the right distance to receive a billion dollars a year from Canadian taxpayers.

  10. Another sentence that needs fixing:
    This is merely the wedge the government is trying to hammer between “taxpayers” and public workers, making decent wages and benefits a matter of scorn and jealousy instead of a bar of decency to which all people working in Canada could aspire.
    But why bother fixing; scorn and jealousy will win the day hands down. “public workers” unions are soon to be extirpated. It’s a natural process.

  12. I’m for privatization, plain and simple: in parts, if necessary (liquidize); what they can’t sell should simply be shut down.
    The CBC is no BBC — the latter being inconsequential anymore, anyway. It’s not like the latter provides the opening four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth, indicating “V” for Victory in Morse Code; it’s more like, “let us tell you how you need to follow us to defeat.”
    Just Do It, please — I sincerely hope that we don’t get into convoluted conundrums about who’s wrong or right. It’s time for letting go, as Tina Turner would say.

  13. This would be the same CBC that reported that the giant fat woman was going to die from her hunger strike because the heartless Stephen Harper wasn’t going to give in to her demands?
    You know, the one whose ass was visibly growing during the news cast and who had more chins than a Chinese phone book?
    The only danger she was in was if the shock wave from her spandex pants exploding toppled the surrounding buildings onto her.
    Why would we give money to a government organization that is obviously prepared to tell a ridiculous lie like that?
    How is it a good use of my tax dollars to have them tell lies that would make the National Enquirer blush?
    The Red Star article said something about a government agency not biting the hand that feeds it?
    Well, what do you call telling outrageous lies like that?
    The two reasons they would do it was to either to embarrass Harper into caving into their/her demands, or they are actually stupid enough to think she was on a hunger strike.
    Either way, they shouldn’t be getting tax dollars.

  14. The CPC is never going to shut down the CBC, just pass half-assed legislation like this and then get partisan idiots to cut them a check for it. You reward political garbage like this and that’s all you get.

  17. CBC: old Indian word for ‘dog who eats and craps in your teepee’.

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