The bosses at Fort Dork have done it again. They've made an outrageous decision that alienates many Canadians. In the annals of Canadian infamy, this CBC administration will surely go down as incorrigibly incompetent and instinctively contemptuous of its own core supporters.
Why are people so angry? Well, two weeks ago it was revealed here that CBC had decided to postpone the scheduled January airing of Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story until March, after the election. The official reason from CBC was, "We're concerned about the appearance of partisanship."
It was also pointed out here that while CBC was ostentatiously postponing The Tommy Douglas Story, it was planning to air a point-of-view documentary called Medicare Schmedicare, a program that pours scorn on our belief in a one-tier medicare system.
Well, Medicare Schmedicare aired last Thursday in prime time on the main TV network.
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Memo To Fort Dork: Viewers Aren't Stupid
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
Frank
it's up to us to get things done, these days? Awful as it was, the
B.C. MLAs' pay raise fiasco certainly illustrated that lesson.
Now it seems as if CBC Administration needs to hear from us. It
was bad enough that they locked out the public broadcaster's
workers for 6 weeks; now they seem intent on grooming us to be
plucked, trussed and sold to the For-Profit merchants of health
services. That Medicare Schmedicare documentary was like a
free advertisement for the U.S. corporations. Unconscionable.
I hope you'll send Robert Rabinovich, the CBC Ombudsman, and
other key people at CBC your 2-cents worth.
Done.
Frank
right-wing propaganda. The so-called mainstream media fairly bristles with this garbage every day. I have learned to largely tune it out.
I am, however, outraged at the double standard and intellectual dishonesty displayed by a national public broacaster in postponing until after the election an article about Tommy Douglas, perhaps one of the greatest Canadians of all time, under the implausible excuse of being partisan, while at the same airing this blatant advertisement for the unpopular views of the extreme right. They should have shown both or neither.
This choice was either unacceptably stupid and incompetent, or an exercise in ideological prejudice and bias unworthy of a public institution. In any event, it is becoming more and more urgent that Rabinovitch and the current management clique at the CBC should go and go quickly.