I really like the CBC, and it’s the news source I use most often.
But, even if the CBC isn’t your preferred source of Canadian news, you should still support their continued funding. They’re the only major news source that doesn’t rely on advertising or subscriptions. That means their coverage doesn’t have to be sensational, it doesn’t have to avoid offending advertisers. Some people might worry that it does have to worry about offending the government, but it’s been almost 80 years and they keep reporting the facts on the ground. That’s not like the Bezos-owned Washington Post who are having to completely recalibrate how they report things to suit his preferences.
Even if you don’t like the CBC, they keep every other media outfit in line by just being a facts-based alternative that people can switch over to. And sure, they have some institutional bias, they’re conservative in the old sense of changing slowly and respecting norms and traditions. But, personally I blame a lot of the chaos in the US on there not being a CBC-equivalent.
The US doesn’t have any calm, boring, state-funded national media outlet that everybody grudgingly agrees is more or less honest. Sure, they have NPR and PBS but those are not on the same scale per capita as CBC. And, while they’re publicly funded, they’re not proper news gathering and reporting organizations like CBC news.
It’s not enough to have news sources that are not biased towards left or right. Just look at CNN. It’s generally not seen as a GOP or Democratic news org. But, it’s still extremely sensationalist. Rather than covering important political news, they’ll show car chases or fires or whatever prevents people from changing the channel.
We lose CBC and we get the Fox-Newsification of Canada, misinformation and disinformation spreading so nobody knows what’s true anymore. That kills the country.
I really like the CBC, and it’s the news source I use most often.
But, even if the CBC isn’t your preferred source of Canadian news, you should still support their continued funding. They’re the only major news source that doesn’t rely on advertising or subscriptions. That means their coverage doesn’t have to be sensational, it doesn’t have to avoid offending advertisers. Some people might worry that it does have to worry about offending the government, but it’s been almost 80 years and they keep reporting the facts on the ground. That’s not like the Bezos-owned Washington Post who are having to completely recalibrate how they report things to suit his preferences.
Even if you don’t like the CBC, they keep every other media outfit in line by just being a facts-based alternative that people can switch over to. And sure, they have some institutional bias, they’re conservative in the old sense of changing slowly and respecting norms and traditions. But, personally I blame a lot of the chaos in the US on there not being a CBC-equivalent.
The US doesn’t have any calm, boring, state-funded national media outlet that everybody grudgingly agrees is more or less honest. Sure, they have NPR and PBS but those are not on the same scale per capita as CBC. And, while they’re publicly funded, they’re not proper news gathering and reporting organizations like CBC news.
It’s not enough to have news sources that are not biased towards left or right. Just look at CNN. It’s generally not seen as a GOP or Democratic news org. But, it’s still extremely sensationalist. Rather than covering important political news, they’ll show car chases or fires or whatever prevents people from changing the channel.
We lose CBC and we get the Fox-Newsification of Canada, misinformation and disinformation spreading so nobody knows what’s true anymore. That kills the country.