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What you're saying was true of the CBC from 8ish years ago, but the modern CBC is an entirely different animal. It really is embarrassingly partisan, and incre
by switchbak 4y ago
What you're saying was true of the CBC from 8ish years ago, but the modern CBC is an entirely different animal.
It really is embarrassingly partisan, and increasingly out of touch with the absolute vast majority of Canadians.
This is true for their television programming, but moreso for their radio side. Often third rate podcasts and YouTube channels will bring in more views than their flagship shows. It's really only kept afloat by increasingly large funding by the federal government, with the associated conflicts of interest that brings.
- philwelch 4y agoWhat's interesting to me about this phenomenon is that if you are a committed supporter of the agenda and you're accustomed to an outlet like the CBC being fair and moderate, you end up in a constructed frame of reference in which everyone else has left the Overton window, when in reality, the window has been closed around you. I don't think the net effect actually convinces anyone to change their mind, but it does something to the people who are inside the narrowed window: it makes them less and less tolerant of dissenting views. And in case this wasn't obvious, I'm not just talking about the CBC here.