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Is CBC known to question the position of Canadian government, especially the majority opinion there? They are a state-owned entity, as far as I know, but I'm no

• grecy 6y ago
  Like the British BBC and the Australian ABC, (and more?), the CBC is at arms length from the currently serving government, and was setup intentionally to be independent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation#Mandate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporat...
  • octodog 6y ago
    Australians trust the ABC more than any other media outlets by quite a large margin too.
    • cycomanic 6y ago
      One of the reasons why the liberals (the Australian Conservative party) have been trying to gut and defund them. They are much happier with the murdoch press, who had headlines like "vote this bastards out" (don't remember the exact phrase but it was direct like that) as a headline some years ago arguing to vote out the Labour government. It's always interesting to see how some people always argue that news sources should be neutral and report only on facts if there are some left leaning opinions published, but completely ignore the blatant electioneering that goes on in the murdoch press.
• devtul 6y ago
  Living in Canada for about two years, so make whatever of my opinion. They seem very fond of the current government, they remind me of US media with Obama but way more subdued.