John Baird story more proof that the CBC needs to be defunded

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Queenmandy85 said:

You are speaking for yourself, just as I am. But okay, whatever floats your boat.

 

The view is quite common.  You might not like that but there you go. 

And whatever floats my boat and the boats of a very large hunk of Canadians is to scrap the corrupt cbc in it's entirety and be done with it. There's nothing salvageable.

And if lefties like yourself wanted to keep it you should have made sure it was cleaned up long before now.

[WestCanMan]

On 7/22/2023 at 10:23 AM, Queenmandy85 said:

The CBC later clarified Mr. Baird’S remarks. Why would you want to destroy a great Canadian institution over one story. Especially when the story was about a silly subject like politics.

[INSERT RELIGIOUS EPITHET HERE!] man, where have you been living for the past ten years? 

Do you honestly think this is just about one F*&^#*$^$&^ story????????

I feel like I need to take some kind of opioid to calm down after reading just 3 sentences of your post. Does it go downhill from there? Can it? dear God, I hope to never find out. 

[WestCanMan]

5 hours ago, CdnFox said:

The view is quite common.  You might not like that but there you go. 

And whatever floats my boat and the boats of a very large hunk of Canadians is to scrap the corrupt cbc in it's entirety and be done with it. There's nothing salvageable.

And if lefties like yourself wanted to keep it you should have made sure it was cleaned up long before now.

It's at the point now where when the CBC says something I automatically consider it to be a lie and start from there. 

[Michael Hardner]

On 7/22/2023 at 1:23 PM, Queenmandy85 said:

The CBC later clarified Mr. Baird’S remarks. Why would you want to destroy a great Canadian institution over one story.  

Because they are not fair, they only have an agenda.

Ask them if egregiously bad reporting by Postmedia should cause their funding to be revoked.

[SpankyMcFarland]

What I see in Canada at the moment is the replacement of local news by Kardashianesque rubbish from the US and the interminable UK royal family soap opera production line. I don’t see anything good coming from the end of the CBC. Things are bad enough already. 

Edited July 28, 2023 by SpankyMcFarland

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

What I see in Canada at the moment is the replacement of local news by Kardashianesque rubbish from the US and the interminable UK royal family soap opera production line. I don’t see anything good coming from the end of the CBC. Things are bad enough already. 

The 'good' is a level playing field where those who the cbc hate don't have to actually pay for the cbc to attack them.  It's brutally unfair and it's morally indefensible to suggest that it's ok to continue like that.

As i have said - if you see value in the CBC, then you should have been pushing hard to eliminate the growing bias over the years.  But there is no chance of getting them back to neutral, and i'm sick of paying for fake news stories attacking conservative politicians or any protest they disapprove of.

I hear what you're saying about the news - but propping up a billion dollar plus propaganda wing for the Liberals is NO solution to that at all.

[Nationalist]

Just a couple observations...

1. Let's quit padding around with words like "misinformation". The CBC LIED.! They LIED about this Baird fellow, and they'll LIE about someone or something else today.

2. The vast majority in this thread, so far, would can CBC. I wonder what a poll nationwide would show?

[CdnFox]

5 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Just a couple observations...

1. Let's quit padding around with words like "misinformation". The CBC LIED.! They LIED about this Baird fellow, and they'll LIE about someone or something else today.

You're not wrong by most definitions but i would argue there's a sublte difference. The cbc lies by manipulating information.  Which also includes withholding some information at some times to give an incomplete or misleading picture.

For example they didn't exactly lie about what Baird said - but they took it so out of tonext that it looked like he said something entirely different.

ANd often they'll do that and correct it somewhere in the story but the headline is grossly misleading and they know that'a all a lot of people will see. But if called on it they simply say 'well we didn't lie, and we clarify his remark here in paragraph 13 half way through so we're good and honest journalists.

They are often very sublte - not out and out lying as much as deliberately leaving people with the wrong idea, and then claiming it was an innocent misunderstanding or a momentary lapse after.

[Nationalist]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

You're not wrong by most definitions but i would argue there's a sublte difference. The cbc lies by manipulating information.  Which also includes withholding some information at some times to give an incomplete or misleading picture.

For example they didn't exactly lie about what Baird said - but they took it so out of tonext that it looked like he said something entirely different.

ANd often they'll do that and correct it somewhere in the story but the headline is grossly misleading and they know that'a all a lot of people will see. But if called on it they simply say 'well we didn't lie, and we clarify his remark here in paragraph 13 half way through so we're good and honest journalists.

They are often very sublte - not out and out lying as much as deliberately leaving people with the wrong idea, and then claiming it was an innocent misunderstanding or a momentary lapse after.

Its lying...however you slice it. And they know it too.

I'd like to give them a "subtle" nudge...to the unemployment line.

[CdnFox]

6 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Its lying...however you slice it. And they know it too.

I'd like to give them a "subtle" nudge...to the unemployment line.

LOL - well you know i'm in agreement with you there,