Imagine … receiving $1.2 billion a year of taxpayers’ money as a BROADCASTER and still having to undertake a cross-country campaign to let people know what you have been doing.
Imagine … receiving $1.2 billion a year of taxpayers’ money as a BROADCASTER and still having to undertake a cross-country campaign to let people know what you have been doing.
How is forcing me to pay for CBC any different than forcing someone else to pay for my subscription to Netflix or NRA TV?
And if the so called CBC really want to reach Canadians and advertise their product they can always call up Ezra and see about the advertising rates at Rebel.
Or give Epoch Times or True North or Post Millennial a call.
Hey, maybe Kate would even let them buy advertising here.
If nobody knows what they’re doing because nobody is watching, isn’t it oxymoronic to interview her on CBC? And surely other MSM , print or broadcast, don’t have any interest in shilling for ‘Mothercorp’. Put them out of our misery as soon as possible!
they could skip the tour. and just bill the people that watch it . about 3000 per viewer
amazing for a place that wont let you feedback their stories.
CBCpravda, all liberal , all the time
I would still like to see a true audit of The Sacred Books, which CBC will not allow taxpayers or even Opposition politicians to see.
I suspect that the case is much worse than we are lead to believe,and that other government agencies and crowns spend a lot of money advertising at CBC, thus handing them even more taxpayer’s money.
And I would bet further that the very first thing Pierre Polievre will do IF he ever becomes PM with a solid majority, is NOT defund the CBC, maybe fire the CEO and replace him with another acceptable-to-Quebec type. Perhaps he’ll make a modest cutback,and quietly reinstate it six months later, as Harper did.
Gingers have no soul.
The woman with the fire-engine red dye job is no ginger.
“…still having to undertake a cross-country campaign to let people know what you have been doing.”
Well of course. If no-one is listening/watching, they don’t know what CBC has been doing and this is a (very inefficient) way to inform them.
Many of us stopped listening to the CBC because we knew what they were doing.
if you ever watch CBCpravda , most of their ads are just themselves
i get to see it in passing once ever 3 or 4 months
Is this real? You have a presenter in your country named ‘Anita Bathe’???
After watching the CBC, I fell like anita bathe too.
damn punny, Brandon!
Someone said,” who needs a national broadcaster in a post-national state?”
I would love to have the opportunity to support the CBC but they make donations mandatory.
It must be a real hardship for the CBC’s president to leave her New York city condo.
Exactly. The bytch doesn’t even live in Canada.
I was reading the comments and Twitter has become a site allowing H8, since Elon Musk took over. Before Musk, Yoel Roth (who is a member of the LGBTQ community) would’ve BANNED these hatemongers!
See Dave Chapelle on Netflix. Sticks and Stones show, the alphabets in a car routine sums it up!
This continued circus and piece of $hi7 corporation can all be laid at the feet of Stephen Harper. He could have scorch earthed this thing but he left it all alone. He left open seats in the Senate , kept the CBC , what a shame. If we ever get another conservative government this $hi7 had better stop.
” If we ever get another conservative government this $hi7 had better stop.”
Agreed. Too bad Poilievre isn’t the one who will do it.
The whole reason CBC is doing a tour now is a preemptive strike on Polievre. They must be concerned that he is going to get on.
I never look in any more, used to watch some of their news just to see what we were up against, but nowadays that is so predictable that I can’t be bothered. I’m going to guess they are not quite as pro-Moscow as back in the day though. 🙂
I wanted Harper to trim the cbc wings but it didn’t happen and I think he just didn’t want a fight with the media. No sector can be as outraged as the media when their ox is being gored. All media join in the fight. They have significant clout.
Today that clout is much diminished. Rationalization has taken place in all news rooms. Legacy media is a shadow of what it was. Subscription news services is de rigueur.
I think that an initiative to cut cbc funding will find a receptive audience. They do not produce anything that is in demand. I don’t think they will be disappeared but maybe they will have to decide if they want government handouts or advertising dollars. Maybe they should be a subscription service. Lots of options will be on the table.
I was at the national CPc convention back in the day, on the organizing committee. 9 of every 10 press credentials issued was to a CBC’er, no exaggeration. If you cut the funding it would disappear in a heartbeat, they treat taxpayers money like any other bureaucracy.
“we can’t compete with the CBC when they get government funding in our very protected media market that the CRTC sets aside for us and allows us to operate a oligopoly, so we want government funding too”
Same as when they whined their customers had to pay H/GST on their streaming services, but not on netflix or disney+, so the government forced the foreign players to start collecting it.
This lady when she touts the high quality of CBC productions has clearly not watched many of them lately. Nothing like patting yourself on the back. A little tough realistic self assessment would be as welcome in news media as it would be in the PMO. The fact the CBC has opted to interview itself informs the reader that there will be no tough questions. She is interviewing her boss! Often media and most particularly the CBC, present only one point of view, the woke agenda, & and many of the presenters and guests have no idea what is happening outside the Ottawa bubble or at most the golden triangle. Probably the biggest reason so many have lost faith in all public institutions is the amount and variety of news sources other than the traditional media. She likes to characterize that as misinformation and some of it might be but a smart consumer sorts though it and sees that some of what the traditional media presents is also false & misleading. We are more questioning because we have more news sources and more points of view available to us. An unrelenting single view of the world raises suspicion. And because not all public institutions deserve to be revered. That is not a bad thing.
In other words, we paid for her holiday.
Haven’t watched CBC TV for yoinks. Do listen to CBC Radio 2 when classical music is on, and will occasionally listen to the local AM (Radio 1) show when in the car as it’s fairly reasonable.
Back in the day, grew up in small town interior BC. The upper areas of the town could get Spokane TV and a local cable company soon built a receiver atop one of the nearby mountains and hooked up everyone in the vicinity. We could even get the Grey Cup when one of the Spokane stations was able to obtain the feed and would broadcast it. When CBC arrived, we were treated to ‘feeds’ of stories being sent from back East to Vancouver along with some of their programs. It took a long time for CBC to realize that Canada wasn’t just the major centres; even Calgary didn’t have a proper CBC station until the 70s but depended upon broadcasting from Edmonton.
How does CBC expect to realistically depict what is going on in the outside world when it is the ultimate in-bubble circle jerk?
Unfortunately Harper didn’t defund the CBC.
However, he did help to make them more irrelevant by ignoring them.
Let’s hope Pierre is willing to give them the coup de grace – it’s a low risk move.
Back in the Mulroney days he appointed one of his old conservative buddies as president of the cbc. I can’t remember his name but the cbc twits went ballistic. They knew they got their face slapped.
I quit watching/listening to anything CBC years back and like so many here was disgusted with Harper’s non-action regarding CBC funding.
Haven’t contributed a penny to the CPC until Poilievre ran for the leadership. He is in my eyes the CPC’s last chance, however I fear that he may be forced to become a mere caretaker PM if he is able to assume the PM’s chair due to the fact that there is way to much power in the eastern provinces
A caretaker position may be the best/worst thing that can happen, however. That could very well pave the road towards the dissolution of a once great country and now a bloated and dying mess searching for solutions to a host of international non-issues.
That will still leave Global & CTV to continue with their Socialist agendas, also funded by the taxpayers but to a lesser extent.
canada is a mess.
Audit the CBC.