Comments on: What’s Wrong with Canadian Mainstream Media http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/26/whats-wrong-with-canadian-mainstream-media/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-wrong-with-canadian-mainstream-media Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:31:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Travis Martin http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/26/whats-wrong-with-canadian-mainstream-media/comment-page-1/#comment-3621 Travis Martin Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:33:37 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1161#comment-3621 I am forever baffled by the fact that Canadians like and watch CBC. In addition to very low quality programing, and awards that amount to nothing but politically planned inside jobs. There is nothing about CBC that makes it an impartial investigator (the stories that is scraps are always more revealing than the ones that it covers) and further the politically correct song and dance routines that they play always cater to intellectual populism. Just once I would like to see them run a piece on how the Aga Khan is slobbering fraud and compulsive horse-race gambler, how the Dali Lama was on CIA payroll, or anything to show a little balance to the drivel we have to swallow on how nice the people society thinks are nice really are, and how backward and racist everyone else is. All that lame network does is take its cues from the Canadian Centre for Policy Ingenuity think tank and the editorial staff at the Globe and Mail, Canada's least helpful newspaper. From there it censors just a little more so as to avoid offending anyone by actually reporting facts. Have you ever noticed that by inserting facts into the blog portions of its web page that 9 times out of 10, and especially if you provide more facts than their lame government sponsored journalists can, your posts will all be removed. This is bad enough at the Globe but at CBC its an epidemic. I am forever baffled by the fact that Canadians like and watch CBC. In addition to very low quality programing, and awards that amount to nothing but politically planned inside jobs. There is nothing about CBC that makes it an impartial investigator (the stories that is scraps are always more revealing than the ones that it covers) and further the politically correct song and dance routines that they play always cater to intellectual populism. Just once I would like to see them run a piece on how the Aga Khan is slobbering fraud and compulsive horse-race gambler, how the Dali Lama was on CIA payroll, or anything to show a little balance to the drivel we have to swallow on how nice the people society thinks are nice really are, and how backward and racist everyone else is. All that lame network does is take its cues from the Canadian Centre for Policy Ingenuity think tank and the editorial staff at the Globe and Mail, Canada’s least helpful newspaper. From there it censors just a little more so as to avoid offending anyone by actually reporting facts. Have you ever noticed that by inserting facts into the blog portions of its web page that 9 times out of 10, and especially if you provide more facts than their lame government sponsored journalists can, your posts will all be removed. This is bad enough at the Globe but at CBC its an epidemic.

]]> By: Fraser Nelund http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/26/whats-wrong-with-canadian-mainstream-media/comment-page-1/#comment-3618 Fraser Nelund Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:13:28 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1161#comment-3618 Good item. I watch cbc's the National. It should be noted that CBC's program funding would not have to be so either or if the government would grant them reasonable budget increases. Additionally to remain relevant it has been suggested (long ago) by Geist that CBC put the majority of its material in the public domain and run as a free achival site (providing downloadable material) on the internet. In its current form "the contents are locked behind stifling copyright terms. It would therefore be a significant step forward for the broadcaster to return its programming to the Canadian public, who provide the majority of its funding through tax dollars" (Geist). I think that this would go a long way to reinvigorating the institution. Geist, M. (2005, June). The upcoming copyright clash: A legal scholar argues for public use over private interest in Canadian policy. Literary Review of Canada, 13(5), 23–25. Good item. I watch cbc’s the National. It should be noted that CBC’s program funding would not have to be so either or if the government would grant them reasonable budget increases.

Additionally to remain relevant it has been suggested (long ago) by Geist that CBC put the majority of its material in the public domain and run as a free achival site (providing downloadable material) on the internet. In its current form “the contents are locked behind stifling copyright terms. It would therefore be a significant step forward for the broadcaster to return its programming to the Canadian public, who provide the majority of its funding through tax dollars” (Geist). I think that this would go a long way to reinvigorating the institution.

Geist, M. (2005, June). The upcoming copyright clash: A legal scholar argues for public use over private interest in Canadian policy. Literary Review of Canada, 13(5), 23–25.

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