CAP Calls For CBC Employees To Take Back OUR Airwaves!

We are asking for real investigation journalism once again. Support for CBC by the people has declined, not because we don’t value CBC, but because CBC has stopped respecting our right to informed choices. When CBC Broadcast Medicare, Schmedicare, and did not Broadcast the Life of Tommy Douglas, what message were they sending? As noted below, what form of propaganda has taken over our airwaves? “The attack on Douglas is ironic because just before this program was broadcast, the CBC postponed for two months a mini-series on Douglas's life set to air a week before the federal election. The combination of the two decisions provoked a storm of protest. Complainants had a right to be annoyed. The video was financed largely by Canadian taxpayers through the Canadian Television Fund ($135,000), Knowledge Network (unknown amount), and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Film Incentive BC (substantial federal and provincial tax credits). The people who want and benefit from Medicare unwittingly financed this attack on it. Eva Czigler, acting head of CBC network programming, wrote a boiler-plate response to the complaints. The Douglas program was pushed back until March because of the "appearance of partisanship" if it was aired during the election campaign, she wrote. Fair enough. The Douglas program, Czigler explained, emphasized Tommy Douglas's "profound commitment to socialism" and would surely be lambasted by the right. But Medicare, Schmedicare, a film advocating a full-blown, two-tier system of health care, which is promoted by only one party, Stephen Harper's Conservatives -- even though they are pretending to support Medicare during this election -- must be non-partisan.” (Quote from: The bias, the blank spots and the damage. By Donald Gutstein Published: January 6, 2006 TheTyee.ca) Canadian Action Party declares, “Tommy Douglas was an advocate of using the Bank of Canada properly to support the social programs Canadians want. The ideals this great man espoused are a reflection of Canadian values, as indicated by the overwhelming support of him as the ‘Greatest Canadian’. The CBC has either been incompetent, unfair, or they have become the incredibly biased spokesperson for the corporate powers behind our government.” -30- Contact: Leader, Constance (Connie) Fogal Telephone (604) 872 2128 home; Fax: (604) 872 1504 E-mail: conniefogal@telus.net Head Office #385- 916 West Broadway, Vancouver B.C. V5Z1K7 Tel: (604) 708-3372;Fax: (604) 872 1504; e- mail: info@canadianactionparty.ca www.canadianactionparty.ca Catherine Whelan Costen, Canadian Action Party President & Communications Director cathpublish@wildroseinternet.ca Ph: 403-660-0449 *authorized by Registered Agent of Canadian Action Party link to article on vive http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060106103236305 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 9, 2006]

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