CBC Employees Need Help To Find The Party With Answers- Help Them Please

I hate the four party leaders so much I might just vote CAP out of protest....I think there is a candidate running in my riding.

Good for you, if you vote out of protest or out of support it'll have the same very positive effect. We just might save the country.


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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Today I heard on KPFA that there are no fewer than six CBC reporters in Haiti. If that is true why do we have to depend on the 'alternative' media for reliable news from Haiti? Is it because the CBC is beholden to corporate interests? Perhaps with some government support the CBC would be free to report the truth.

Public broadcasting has been decimated everywhere by political interference (including corps. special interest groups).

Perhaps public broadcasting has become far too expensive for what it is supposed to accomplish, look after the commmon good, educate citizens on public issues, allow them to debate them, etc... New medias (NGO) seem to be better able to deal with content and "correcteness" matters. Bureaucracies can't.

Reforms of our medias should ensure that these new medias can operate in our brave new world environment. Political parties should advocate related reforms of our medias rather than try to buy their favors IMHO, which would be exactly what the mainstream political parties constantly try to do. I hope that CAP can steer clear from that.

I have pointed out before that the media carta campaign from adbusters.org NGO would be most effective to that end. No political parties whatsoever (that I am aware of) have ventured at this point a new media policy. This mindset speaks loud and clear on the baggage we all carry.

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

If the cbc cannot see that they are being used by political parties to get their message out and we are being use to cover the cost and that is it.

The cbc are not the peoples broadcaster, they are the political parties keeper

<<The cbc are not the peoples broadcaster, they are the political parties keeper>>

EXACTLY! But what are we to expect with a "broadcaster" that reports to the governing party. Pravda, CBC; same tool of the state...different pile.

Any party that would auction off the CBC would be the party with the right answer - CBC employees would then be able to see what it's like to work outside of a highly politicized moribund institution. The change would do them good.

May I ask if the US model of "public" broadcasting relevant? Whatever it is now (somewhere on gazillions Net new medias), does it educate and engage Americans in participating in their Democracy? Bush&Co. seems to have done it by demonstrating what happens when People disengages. Do we need same to happen in Canada with Martin&Co., or Harper&Co.?

Should the CBC be dismantled, undergo major media reforms, kept as is or further funded (without any media reform changes)? Throwing more money to the CBC looks like lunacy and I really wished the NDP was not so clued out on this one.

I wonder why it is that the political "right" is always so opposed to any media that cannot be controlled by them or their corporate dollars? Why are they always so anxious to block free discussion and debate? Why do they believe that people should not be allowed to hear any ideas or consider any agenda but theirs?

If the neo-con/neo-liberal ideas which they espouse are so good for everyone, so attractive, so popular, and so sound, why is that they cannot stand on their own merit when compared to other philosophies? Surely if they are that good, no one would want anything else, even if it were readily available? Why then do they have to be perpetually protected by squashing every disenting word?

The reality of course is that the neo-liberal/neo-conservative model, when subjected to even modest scrutiny and compared to almost any alternative, is not attractive at all. It is quickly exposed as greedy, narrow, elitist and damaging to all except a very select few. That's why its has to be carefully dressed up in platitudes, couched in "weasel-words" and political spin, and above all, never, ever, carefully compared to anything else.

It is not the job of the CBC or any other public broadcaster to suppress or denigrate any part of the neo-con ideology. It should be loudly heard, and allowed to stand up for what it is, with all its successes and its many, many failures carefully noted and explained.

Where the CBC,(and in fairness all broadcast media in Canada) fails is that they do not work hard enough to ensure that when people have choices, all the other varying ideas are heard with equal volume and frequency. That's the problem we have to address.

I believe in the kind of democracy that doesn't have to be imposed by any kind of force, deception or coercion and doesn't depend on vigourous suppression of competing ideas in order to flourish. Anything else is not really democracy anyway.

If workers at the CBC want support (and I believe they deserve it) they should in turn support those who would offer it to them. That includes the Canadian Action Party and any others willing to take a stand on the workers behalf and do the right thing.

The best way CBC workers can provide that reciprocial support is to mount a ceaseless internal campaign within the corporation and the industry for more fairnesss and balance in all media activities. The would be a great gift to Canada and the world.

The CBC have lost their way and if they wish to continue to get tax dollars then they better make up their mind, are they the "governings parties tool or are they going to be the voice and an investigative voice of the people?

They have really shot themselves in the foot this election with me... they turned their back on the Green Party and they tend to cover the Conservatives and Liberals as the only two parties that interest the people. But in fact they are doing everything to set the political agenda here in Canada.. making the liberals look like they are the only political party that care about Canada , I am tired of their bullshit and the sooner they fall the better off we will be, onething for sure we all know where the private sector media stand , but we are not funding them with our tax dollars either are we?

Instead of this slow death by political blackmail , leyt just cut their head off now.

<<I wonder why it is that the political "right" is always so opposed to any media that cannot be controlled by them or their corporate dollars? >>

And I wonder why lefties continually ignore the lessons of history and think gov't controlled media is a good thing. But heh, we all have questions.