CBC Last Bastion Of The Neo-Cons

Yes, I'm sure that Salutin would rather the CBC eschew any talk of efficiency or careful usage of the funds allocated to it. After all, there has to be somewhere where bureaucrats are free to blow money without any accountability or responsibility for producing results. Oh yeah, there was. It was called the sponsorship program in Quebec.

Salutin's just another old socialist - contemptuous of anyone who questions the sacred cows of Canadian statism.

Damn, 4Canada hates everyone!
If you are hostile to CBC, what's next:
the sacred cow, the precious CanCon?

So, just because their politics don't agree with your politics you want them replaced. You want to silence any media outlet that doesn't correspond to your political view. When you say "OUR" CBC you mean your CBC. You're pathetic.


Well, that is the CBC...

4Canada only found the article, Salutin wrote it.

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Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.

The CBC should be sold to Conrad Black for a dollar because he has knack for turning media organizations into something worthwhile. More than a handful of Canadians might actually watch their programming if someone with savvy ran the outfit.

Good post 4Canada!.
CBC radio is great. Some of the daily shows like "Ideas" or "As it happens" are right up there with the best that anyone in the world, including the BBC, can provide. CBC TV is just like any other private TV channel, 12 minutes per hour of mind numbing commercials which ruin any continuity of thought. However the CBC does show Canadian news and sports and I am grateful for that. Rick Salutin is absolutely correct I'm with him 100% when he says that the CBC (like all government depts. incidentally) now operates according to the bottom line rather than providing services that people want. The government should return the mandate of the CBC back to what it was before the right wingers took control, that is let the CBC produce quality programmes produced in this country by Canadians for Canadians. Let the penny pinchers keep their meddling hands off.

Frank

Jesse,

I don't feel the need to respond to or defend my position when oviously these two anons haven't read the post or looked at the links. I would just suggest it's in their best interests to remains anonymous.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Frank,<br />
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I do miss the CBC radio and I agree that CBC tv has never been the same since they turned to corporate money. I would rather the tv go back to black and white two journalists and a mike giving us solid news stories and the kind of journalism that is no longer being taught in our colleges nor broadcast on our news outlets.<br />
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I put a link up on one of the forums for <a href="http://www.iwtnews.com">www.iwtnews.com</a> which is an independent news outlet that a former CBCer has started up and I do hope it can survive with just viewer memberships. We need that kind of independence from corporate influence. I only wish CBCtv could go back to being that too. My feeling is that the management they have now is trying to destroy our public broadcaster from the inside. Make us dislike CBCtv, stop supporting it and then that be a good reason to close it down.<br />
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It's hard living in a remote region and not having radio that you want to listen to. CBC radio is so great at keeping us connected to each other and the rest of the world. There are no better interviews around. I also love definitely not the opera on Saturdays.<br />
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Since the strike I've taken to listening to CPAC like I would the radio. It's commercial free and actually is very informative. Everything broadcast exactly as it is, no editing, just raw reality tv.<p>---<br>"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche<br />

Now that's good comedy!

Welcome to vive, Barbara.

Canadian patriotism is notoriously hard to pin down, because it rests on a negative: not being the US.

Canadians are proud of the fact that, unlike the Americans, they have the CBC [the equivalent of the BBC], health care, ice hockey, and a peace-keeping military.

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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

"Canadian patriotism is notoriously hard to pin down, because it rests on a negative: not being the US. "

Also because when to try to pin it down, like by stating this, it is not true! I am a patriotic Canadian because Canada is Canada, and it is my home.

Thirty million people manage to hold one of the largest and most useful sovereign territories on the planet, rich in beauty and abundant resources, and yet some insist we are defined by what we are not? That's gotta stop.

I was watching CPAC last night, 4Canada. A replay of an interview by Ken Rockburn of Sheila Copps. She referred back to a time when she was in the Chretien cabinet and Paul Martin was minister of finance. Apparently Martin gave her the option of privatizing the CBC, fortunately she had the sense to refuse. Do you think Martin is behind the current struggle at the CBC?.<br />
<a href="http://www.friends.ca">www.friends.ca</a> (Friends of Canadian Broadcasting) has more information on the lockout.<br />
I took a look at <a href="http://www.itnews.com">www.itnews.com</a>, it's a great idea.<br />
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Frank<br />

I agree with your point but here is the catch;

The Canadian Business Elite that stood tall and united trashed Canada's stand on Iraq, it's Military size and ability and Canada's role in Peace Keeping, that the United States of America encouraged Canada to lead in so as to keep Canadian Politicians out of their plans for North America, and paid large sums of money to the United States in donations are the same people that don't stand up demand a larger Military and are also the same that don’t ask to pay higher taxes for a large Military that can defend our own Country's borders as well as other nations because that might make it harder for them to do business in the United States of America due to the fact that it might be conceived as threatening! They are the same one’s that fly a larger then life American flag outside their businesses and discourage nationalism and patriotism with in their own businesses.

Most Businesses in Canada that pay relatively decent wages and are not Mom's and Pop's Businesses are in most cases American own and operated with no loyalty to Canada or Canadians but for the profit margins that they provide.

So even that there are people like me and you that believe in the People, values, beliefs and life of this great Country and what it can do and accomplish, which is great for its small size, means little in the great scheme of things in how this country is defined!


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.