Some of the bought & paid for media

[dimsum]

Like the CBC? Yes, but then at least there is no pretense that the CBC isn't funded by the government.

The CBC is the state broadcaster. Of course it’s funded by the govt.

I’d be shocked if it was anything but.

 

[Furniture]

The CBC is the state broadcaster. Of course it’s funded by the govt.

I’d be shocked if it was anything but.

I'm curious what you're getting at with this post. I clearly indicated that I support the idea of a state funded news organization, with a mandate to provide news in underserved/unserved locations.

The point of my post you're quoting is that the CBC is clearly state funded, while other news organizations are controlled/influenced through their parents corporations, which are subsidized through the government... Making the state subsidization/influence less clear.

i.e. The GoC supporting CBC is good, and it's a clear linkage between the state and the news. The GoC supporting BCE, Rogers, etc., is not good, because it makes the connection between the state and the news less clear.

Like I said, if the RCN is worried that a canape will influence a LCdr to favour LM, the Canadian public should be concerned that $40M CAD will influence BCE/Bell Media/CTV News.

 

[Brad Sallows]

The assumption that any government ought to promote goods and services is not necessarily valid. The assumption that it does more good by choosing winners and losers (necessarily because it is somewhere between impractical and impossible to extend favour equally to all) than bad is not necessarily valid. Anyone can point to the "good" done on behalf of someone helped; few could find the "bad" done to those taxed to provide the "good" and receiving none of their own.

 

[Jarnhamar]

NP View: CTV got it wrong. Media dismissals of that fact are even worse​

Until only recently, Justin Trudeau enjoyed what appears to have been the longest media honeymoon of perhaps any prime minister. And yet, when the opposition Conservatives point out the obvious bias, or avoid media questions, reporters and columnists gasp as if democracy is crumbling before them. Pierre Poilievre is accused of all sorts of nefarious and evil actions and intensions. A grand narrative is always asserted, but rarely is it ever backed up.

• A Toronto Star columnist has argued Poilievre would try to claim elections Conservatives lost were illegitimate, or rigged. No evidence was cited.
• A Canadian Press story accused Poilievre of spreading conspiracy theories. Again, no evidence was cited.
• A CBC story accused the Conservative leader of pandering to an extremist group called Diagolon and the only evidence cited was that he walked past a door with some graffiti scrawled on the bottom.
• Chinese election interference? Actually Poilievre is the one to blame for making such a big deal of it, according to some writers.
• Pressuring the attorney general not to prosecute a politically important Quebec company? Why should we care about that?
• Inflation? an invention of Poilievre’s imagination.