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Time to properly fund the CBC.
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4 comments
March 10, 2015 at 8:24 am
Liam Young
I would suggest that we need to properly fund public communications. This is different from funding the CBC.
How? For the first time, on a mass scale, the public has the ability to create, nurture and promote its content and not content that’s written and controlled by a select few.
The tools exist, but regulations and barriers limit the amplification of voice of the average Canadian. What we TRULY need is public internet, not a public broadcaster.
If we can’t get our head around some kind of broadly accessible public communications infrastructure, then we will ultimately have to agree to disagree, as the CBC currently is a den of Con stooges and I refuse to encourage more funding for their propaganda.
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March 10, 2015 at 10:12 am
The Arbourist
@Liam Young
I really want to agree with you here. But ‘the public’ in general, sucks at journalism, fact checking, and critical analysis. \
The internet, is quite public enough in my opinion. A public broadcaster on the other hand staffed with professional journalists is an indispensable tool in a democratic society.
The CBC seems to be the only broadcaster that regularly reports on, analyzes, and highlights how crappy the current government is. Even with conservative types at the helm, the stories are getting through.
I guess so. :)
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March 11, 2015 at 10:36 am
Liam Young
Hi Arborist,
Great feedback, but you don’t seem to have much faith that the ‘sheeple’ out there can cobble together two syllables, let alone coherent articles or reports. The millions of blogs and networks like Progressive Bloggers and others prove that sentiment wrong, but feel free to keep believing that journalists are holy gatekeepers on truth and wisdom and that the rest of the world can be neatly tucked into the category of ‘idiots’.
Of course, I don’t see it that way. Today, ‘journalists’ – especially those with the CBC – have become narrators. They read press releases from the PMO and stand by PR ‘stories’ from major corporations while taking graft money from oil companies, insurance conglomerates or marketing agencies.
We need to wake up to the reality that the gatekeepers are blocking us from the truth, not offering it.
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March 11, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Mystro
@Liam Young
High numbers of bloggers does absolutely nothing to prove that most people don’t suck at journalism.
Oh I get it. You didn’t actually intend to address what Arb said. Instead, you pulled some ludicrous made-up position out of your ass, pretended that’s what Arb said, and argued against that. Poorly.
It seems you’re demonstrating quite well Arb’s point of people sucking at critical analysis.
Make a guess as to why CBC needs to take sponsorship money from companies. The title of this post is a big hint.
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