Will Dear Leader’s CBC benefit under the additional money it will be receiving? Somebody could ask their president who lives in New York. Or as Jordan Peterson states, is the CBC a corpse?
Jordan Peterson says legacy media in “death spiral,” CBC a “near-corpse”
Pravda is a more suitable name.
Buddy….I stopped all casual looks at ANY MSM since we Cut the Cord over 5 yrs ago…I like to think that has allowed us to stay clean for the most part from their BS and propaganda…which went into overdrive once Justin dipshit became an MP.
They have about as much Crediblity, Ratings & Perversions within as to match CNN….and I suspect the same goes for Red Star, Global, CTV and all their Leftist – Marxist derivatives in Radio and local TV.
I watch Fox from time to time…really like the “5” and Gutfield.
I read Epoch Times (Canada and USA Versions) daily
And many of the links posted here….
CBC..??
Social Engineering since I was 5.
100% COMMUNIST Trash..
I personally don’t know anyone who watches or listens to the CBC. I stopped over 2 years ago and started with streaming SiriusXM to my computers to hear the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.
To be honest, I don’t miss the CBC at all. I have to pay around $250/year for satellite radio but I at least get to hear the kind of music I like as there are lots of channels to choose from.
Yes. I’ve got it in my car, but also listen on Echo, Kindle and my computer. Listened to traditional Christmas music almost non-stop these last three or four weeks on Channel 784. Also love Baroque and Beyond” with Robert Aubrey Davis every Saturday morning (repeated Sunday nights, then whenever you want to hear it)on Sirius Symphony Hall channel).
(I’m not a fan of Echo/Alexa. My husband got it for me to Christmas 5 or 6 years ago, but it’s useful for a few things, especially listening to Sirius in the living room/kitchen. I ALWAYS turn off the speaker/Mic when not using it so Amazon can’t follow conversations.)
Whenever I drive to my house, I start out with The Sunday Show with Martin Goldsmith and, later, I switch over to Met Opera Radio (Channel 355). If the opera finishes before I get into town, I switch back to Channel 76 and listen to a bit of Baroque and Beyond.
Coming back to Edmonton, it’s Preston Trombly’s show, followed by Lauren Rico.
I have to say that the announcers on Channel 76 have class and a refined manner of presentation.
Let’s Go Justin !!
The last CBC I watched was HNIC. Since the NHL moved to SN the CBC is not something I even think about watching. Unfortunately SN has inherited some of the social managers who used to populate the CBC. MacLean & Co. continue to spew their BS.
I last watched CBC and CTV on the evening Chretien won an election. Having the election called before the polls closed here in Vancouver was one thing which I’d become used to. BUT what really riled me was the cheshire cat grin on CTV’s Lloyd Robertson’s puss. There was no attempt whatsoever to even feign neutrality. I consume NO TV or radio news whatsoever. None. If I occasionally listen to classical music on CBC Fm in the car, off it goes the moment I hear that ugly techno jingle announcing the “news”.
The difficulty here is that those that believe the propaganda, absolutely refuse to look at anything that may bring more light on the stories.
Tried to show a brief article that did not necessarily agreed with the prevailing propaganda, they absolutely refused to read it.
As for so called “journalists”, it’s obvious they are propagandists, of course as the saying goes, if you are up to your neck in latrine matter, it becomes to smell like roses.
They cannot, not possible, cannot be done, get off the propaganda meme, they would rather die. There is no doubt that they would be fired the next minute.
The guy on CHQR in the morning will, by his own statement or maybe by his bosses decision, not take into account nothing but those “experts” supporting the mass hysteria state.
So then you have that.
CBC never watch but CTV, I happen to get 11pm news quite often. Habit. Well folks, I can tell from experience: VIP anchor/chief-yadda yadda Lisa Laflamme + chief correspondent @WH Joy Malbon these are the 2 most despicable whores in journalism. If someone needs to research prostitution in media, these two witches are glaring examples of how you sell your soul for a few $.
You missed another of the ‘most despicable whores in journalism’ – Rosemary Barton –
That smug parasite puts me off solid food –
Plus the CBC’s Katie Simpson. Plus the CBC’s Bag over her Head.
Dawna Freisen and Nirmala Nidoo would give them a run at worst duo of presstitue whores.
CBC near collapse!!??? Never going to happen. There is an endless money supply to prop them up. Does anyone listen? That I doubt. Maybe that’s what Dr. Peterson is referring to, but they will never go bankrupt.
Right you are, jckirlan, the Libs will keep increasing their funding and CBC will never die. And I expect the mainstream media that is currently getting welfare from Trudeau for following his narrative will see their subsidies increased too.
“The CBC has become a mewling, meandering, self-righteous, slogan-spewing narcissistic near-corpse,” said Peterson.
And that is still nicer than anything the narrative-driven CBC has ever said about Peterson.
Much as I respect his opinion, Peterson totally underestimates the Liberals determination in keeping useless Canadian institutions lurching on pointlessly with massive infusions of tax money. Nobody deconstructs their stuff.
I haven’t watched MotherCorpse TV since I stopped watching hockey in the mid 70’s. I’ve never listened to MotherCorpse radio, save a few times growing up when Mom or Dad had it on which wasn’t very often. I won’t knowingly click on a MotherCorpse link and if I hit one before I mouse over it to see, it gets immediately closed.
Nor do I watch or read any MSM news and I haven’t in years. 9/11 was probably the last time.
Every now and again, I make the mistake of trying to comment on a story on the CBC News website. I usually get an automatic “content under review” followed shortly by a “Content Deactivated” . The latest was a response to a rant that it was Conservatives that were responsible for Climate Change. I posted: “So have you determined that it’s only Conservatives who use their gas powered snowmobiles and ATVs for entertainment?” . This didn’t meet the moderators so-called standards or narrative so I got an immediate “deactivated” . CBC continues to be a garbage news source.
“Every now and again, I make the mistake of trying to comment on a story on the CBC News website. I usually get an automatic “content under review” followed shortly by a “Content Deactivated” . ”
You and me both, brother. Here are about one-third of my deactivated comments from yesterday (marked with **):
Content deactivated
Reply to @Angus Campbell: “In British Columbia, Western Europe, New York, Western NL and Cape Breton and California the sky was literally falling in the form of record breaking rainfalls. ”
*Yes, and next year we will be back to normal. What about it? *
Content deactivated
Reply to @Jim Dandee: “Ah yes, Switzerland: bankers for the world’s dirty money. ”
*Not for decades now.*
(followed by me adding “sorry”, it got through (?)
Reply to @Jim Dandee: Ah yes, Switzerland: bankers for the world’s dirty money. ”
*Not for decades now, sorry. *
(weird)
Content deactivated
Reply to @Gilad Escobar: ” Peanuts for a century + of oppression. ”
*Huh? *
(referring to residential schools, so no surprise there…)
Content deactivated
Reply to @tori conrad mctory: ” Progressives tend to be better educated and more affluent. ”
*Hilarious. *
(no sense of humor, these people…;)
Content deactivated
Reply to @Gordon MacFarlane: “Remember Singh’s immediate tweet after the pipeline announcement?
“Environmentalists don’t build pipelines”
Nailed it ”
*Then why does he continue to prop up Justin Trudeau’s government? *
(gotta protect the NDP!)
Here is the BEST exchange, though…and I wasn’t even involved. The CBC ‘moderator’ actually POSTED in the thread (!):
Reply to @Bill Gender: my facts come from the vast vast body of climate science and data gathered over the years…
M This user is a community moderator
23 hours ago
Reply to @Tom Paine: Thank you, Tom. Correct. ^bb
…yup, a CBC “moderator” posted a “thank you” to another user for pushing the CAGW narrative. How blatantly BIASED can you be??
The National Post may moderate, but at least they don’t use that privilege to push their own political agenda by shamelessly censoring opposing opinions (or even statements of documented fact).
Not watched the Communist Bropaganda Corp since the 70’s
Our local rag, a pale imitation of its former self follows the government line and censors comment that disagrees even though they get no government welfare.
I’m thinking they’re hoping that if they cater to the Liberals, they might get on the government welfare dole and survive.
The Sun papers in Calgary and Edmonton are in name only now. They are just copies of the Herald and Journal.
How long was Peterson in an induced coma in Russia from the effects of his all meat diet?
Lawton really could use some testosterone and long runs behind a pickup truck.
Seriously? Maybe you ought to read a bit before smearing someone. The facts on Dr Peterson’s illness are easy to find.
And the ad hominem attack on Lawton confirms you are a effing moron.
At some point a government in Canada will have to be the bearer of bad news to the cbc.
It cannot pretend to be what it was in the 1940’s much longer. No amount of money can save it from itself….kinda like Canadian health care.
The internet has totally upset the game. The overpriced, moribund constipated cbc has become irrelevant. It brings nothing to the table.
Nobody under 40 even watches tv let alone read a newspaper. It’s game over.
The government will fund it in some form – probably just a stripped down digital version. If they had guts they would make it a subscription service. Those who want it – pay for it.
TV is long gone in our house, but I still retained a fondness for CBC Radio, and its daily classical music program in the mornings. Like Menticide above, I’d automatically switch it off whenever the “news” came on at the top of the hour. But about 3 years ago I found I couldn’t even make it through an entire hour segment because I noticed that they had started to build their playlists around the concept of “equality”. So every piece by Mozart, Bach or Beethoven had to be balanced by a piece by some hitherto-unknown female composer. As you may imagine, the available stock of female classical composers is pretty scanty, but they managed to drag in every no-name chick who ever plinked away at the family spinet. I think I’d heard the complete works of Fanny Mendelssohn 3 times by the time I gave up on the program.
The music wasn’t bad, but it was just mediocre and totally unmemorable. I’ll bet if you wanted to do a musical tour of Italy, every single little town with a church could probably boast a local boy who, a few centuries back, composed masses and choral works to be performed in his home town. The women’s compositions were of that calibre. And the hours spent broadcasting their stuff were hours we *weren’t* hearing the greatest music in the Western canon. Now every time I hear the lead-in which is inevitably a recitation of how an oppressive family wouldn’t allow a daughter to write music, I switch the radio off. Nowadays, that typically happens after about 10 minutes.
I haven’t had a tv in my placed for 30 years. It’s radio all the way. I’ve had satellite radio uninterrupted for more than 20 years. Before it was ‘legal’ in Canada ha.
The cbc pushes some agenda that reflects the thinking of almost nobody. Maybe a few first year university girls.
Long ago cbc abandoned their jazz programs (Katie Mallick(sp) might have been the last.
Trivia- she was a girlfriend of Ian Tyson’s back in the day. They had some manic live affair and it’s thought she may have been the ‘Katie’ in his song ‘ Navajo Rug’…but I digress.
I’m not knowledgeable about this but didn’t cbc have a afternoon classical radio program hosted by a fellow Jurgen or Jorgan. I had read something about him – he was respected for his depth on the music.
Now they would have someone who is a social justice warrior host the program who knows nothing about the form but can prattle on about race, diversity, queer politics etc. Barf
Now they would have someone who is a social justice warrior host the program who knows nothing about the form but can prattle on about race, diversity, queer politics etc. Barf
The only programming on CBC I used to listen to was the Saturday afternoon opera. Then there was a guest who whined about the “systemic racism” that she “suffered” because she was a black singer.
That was when I switched over to SiriusXM for good. The only time I’ve ever heard the CBC was when I’m fiddling with some of my radio gear and I needed to get a reliable signal. Even then, it was only for a moment or two at the most.
G’bye, CBC. Your best days are long behind you. So long and thanks for all the fish.
” So long and thanks for all the fish.”
A fellow Hitchhiker to the Galaxy.
Thumbs up.
“The cbc pushes some agenda that reflects the thinking of…”
…the population within a 5km radius of CBC’s downtown Toronto headquarters (the only people they care about.)
Out of curiosity I bought an Edmonton Journal a couple weeks ago. I paid something over $3 for it and it was smaller than the local free advertising rag. The last one I bought was 15 or so years ago. I knew someone about 45 years ago who got the weekend edition of her hometown paper, the Washington Post. It was 3 inches thick and likely cost a quarter at the time. Apparently the Edmonton Journal still has 91,000 subscribers at $39 monthly. The 91,000 figure likely also includes online subscriptions at $15 per month.
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Those were the halcyon days for print news. I used to buy the NYT Sunday edition at a news shop on Whyte ave in Edmonton. Can’t recall the name of the shop but they carried newspapers from around the globe.
They also had 100’s of magazines. I’d go nuts and buy things like Liberty, The Idler (who remembers that one ha), Commentary and others I’ve long since forgotten. I’m a big fan of long form journalism by writers who know their topic.
Today I subscribe to The Dorchester Review. It’s a twice annual publication. Everything else is online. I’d recommend Quillette.
I used to buy the NYT Sunday edition at a news shop on Whyte ave in Edmonton. Can’t recall the name of the shop but they carried newspapers from around the globe.
Hub Cigar, maybe? They were originally next to the Princess Theatre but moved around the corner several years ago because of a fire.
The last time I was there, they still carried quite a variety of magazines and newspapers, including some radio publications which are rather hard to get in this country.
The only other such outfit in Edmonton was the old United Cigar Store. I used to get my NYT at the Southgate outlet. They changed the name to UCS nearly 20 years ago but seem to have disappeared altogether since then.
Hub cigar it was.
I think they are no longer in business?
Thanks BADR
You’re welcome.
According to the URL that dizzy posted below, Hub Cigar closed several years ago. Come to think of it, I think I heard about that just after it happened.
I used to buy Frank there as, at the time, it was one of the few places in town that carried it.
Always been a subscriber to the Calgary Herald. Decades and decades.
It is one of the most annoying thing one can read today.
Nothing but Wuhan flu, Wuhan virus, ξ, of course they call it by the Chinese communist diktat.
Then there is Dilbert and Blondie with her constantly hungry husband.
Not paying for it, the one that knows everything about everything is buying it.
Public discourse is still set by politicians and their media.
Taxpayers are more than willing to pay for approved political messages, and they can afford to pay a lot more, so they will.
Wrongthinkers are still getting cancelled, there is little change on the horizon.
If there are taxpayers, then there is a CBC.
The amount of viewers is irrelevant.
CBC will investigate in 3, 2, 1…..
Why Are Covid Outbreaks Still Happening in Professional Sports if the Athletes Are All Vaccinated?
https://basedunderground.com/2021/12/27/why-are-covid-outbreaks-still-happening-in-professional-sports-if-the-athletes-are-all-vaccinated/
Silly People,CBC’s purpose has nothing to do with reporting the news and keeping Canadians informed.
Like every other crown corporation,it exists to provide parking spots for the team.
Where better to park your political campaign people between elections?
How better to reward your loyal minions and their family members?
Look at any Crown Corp..
The same people will be infesting the infrastructure.
The “purpose” stated as the rational for that crown existing,will always be the last thing the hirelings perform.
Our Crowns are just like our Charities and “Non Government Agencies” a wonderful way to steal from a gullible citizenry.
Where better can one have all the benefits of taxpayer funding,with none of the rules and regulations that should govern spending of tax payer monies?
Kleptocracy,thus defined.
Shorter version John.
Canada was founded on the principle of preserving the government, not the nation.
At times, like a broken clock, the objectives coincide. Like back in the 90’s when the WTO and the IMF threatened the country with “measures” if it didn’t get its spending under control. At that time government objectives aligned with the people, to a point. The point being that they became “fiscal conservatives” while it was fashionable but in the shadow’s still couldn’t give the time of day to the tax payer’s while feathering the government nest.
But I digress.
The thing about CBC is that it cannot escape Thatcher’s observation.
They will run out of other peoples money.
// halcyon days for print news. I used to buy the NYT Sunday edition at a news shop on Whyte ave in Edmonton. Can’t recall the name of the shop but they carried newspapers from around the globe.//
You must be referring to the Hub Cigar Store & Newsstand
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cigar-shop-centennial-marked-1.954232
Here is an obituary:
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/edmonton-journal/20120308/288072048151546
// mewling, meandering, self-righteous, slogan-spewing narcissistic near-corpse //
Piling up modifiers in front of nouns is a pretty good sign of a crackpot.
I didn’t notice your comment when posted my response to abtrapper.
I was in the newer location about 15 years ago and the place still had quite a selection on newspapers and magazines. I hadn’t been back there since, so I have no idea if it even exists any more.
I vaguely remember that article because I used to read the Journal on line, but I stopped that after it went all in for Rotten Rachel after the election.
I also visited the new place a lot. It was crowded & no longer a place for browsing.
And being around the corner from the passing crowd probably made a difference.
For my money, Mike’s Newsstand downtown was the best place:
https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/edmonton_archives/mikes-news-sign
I remember that sign at the 101 Street location. I think that spot is now part of the Scotia Place complex.
I thought for a while that Mike’s had closed for good but I re-discovered it a number of years ago. I sometimes passed by it at its current location a few times when I was downtown but I don’t recall ever going inside.
If you say so genius.
Not CBC but,
I miss the days of Norm Perry and Helen Hutchinson.
I could even listen to Andy Barrie in the 90’s.
DB is about right, after 2001, it all died. Decline was well under way during the Clinton years.
Haven’t listened to radio of any kind in two years and killed all news and sports feeds for TV at the same time.
About 15 years ago, there was yet another CBC dispute. Regular programming more or less continued during the time it lasted, but it cost the network.
A number of its classical music hosts, such as Howard Dyck, were given the boot and its format on the FM service distinctly started emphasizing stuff like “world music” (something about being “relevant” or some such nonsense).
Remember the milketoast CPC campaign position on CBC? It amounted to removing some limbs but leaving the barely alive corpus to flip about – much like that bellicose knight in Monty Python. CBC needs to be terminated, without remorse nor hesitancy.
CBC is a taxpayer funded welfare dole. Instead of being poor to receive fine, the life-form in question just has to French kiss Dear Leader’s brown spot.
What can we do to hasten it’s death. I for one haven’t watched anything on it for over two decades.
Vote for conservative-minded school board officials.
You must start there. It will take at least a generation to purge the hopelessly brain-washed children out of schools and universities. And it will take that long (plus a financial meltdown) to rid the Millenials of their current woke-ness.